- [Editor's note: Over the course of the 2008 calender, Ioncinema.com will be launching regional monthly news capsules from film journalists from around the globe and today we focus on a film nation that has had bragging rights since Walter Salles' Central Station and Fernando Meirelles City Of God. Bruno Bragança is our newest member to join the team - he'll be reporting on the latest film offerings from his country and keeping our readers up to date with local and international news from the country that gives us great tans and some wicked football players.] Brazil at Home: Johnny kick-starts 2008 2008 began well to the Brazilian cinema industry. In a little bit more than a month, Brazil has a new hit: "Meu nome nao e Johnny" (My Name Ain't Johnny). The movie, was released in a limited release, has gained a bigger distribution resulting in several weeks in highest positions of the charts. According to the website of the newspaper “O Globo”, the film tends to have a promising future, even better than the 2007’s hit “Elite Squad”, considering the number of the viewers in their first weeks. It’s already the 9th most viewed Brazilian movie in history. Still, there are no news about a possible international distribution but the box office looks like this (grossed 16 million reais ($9.4 million) and sold 1.8 million tickets by Feb. 17, in its seventh weekend.) The movie, an adaptation of the biography with the same title, tells the story of
- 3/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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