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Black & White Women’s Rights Drama ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Set Sights On International Screens After Box Office Success In Italy
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever …
This week we explore Italian movie hit There’s Still Tomorrow, which begins rolling out on cinema screens worldwide this spring with other key deals underway after a stellar release back home last fall, where it is now the ninth highest-grossing film in the history of the country’s box office. On the face of it, the black-and-white drama also starring Cortellesi as a downtrodden Rome housewife dealing with domestic violence, against the backdrop of Italy’s post-World War Two 1946 referendum giving women the right to vote, seemed an unlikely box office hit — let alone international seller. “I think it touched a raw nerve, a topic that fills the newspapers every day and which evidently needed a social and cultural debate,” says Gianani, who is set to exit Wildside and begin a new venture with former production partner Lorenzo Mieli.
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