Life goes like this in Sardinia beats records of Zalone and Avatar

Life goes like this triumphs in… Sardinia. There is a curious, even historical fact in the data of box office this weekend in Italian cinemas. The new film by Riccardo Milani is going head to head with the Dracula Of Luc Besson. Sunday 9 November Life goes like thisì regained first place at the box office – 373,884 euros for 53,522 admissions – after Dracula he had surpassed it in the previous two days.

After 18 days of screening, Milani’s film reaches a total of almost 5 million 300 thousand euros, a figure which roughly follows the takings of his previous film, A World Apart. Data which, however, fits into a very dark picture for takings in Italian cinemas at the beginning of the 2025/26 season: -29.7 percent compared to the last weekend and -27.9 percent compared to the same weekend in 2024.

Having said that, Life goes like thiswhich features the stubborn resistance of a Sardinian shepherd in the face of a powerful real estate group that wants to acquire his land, has become the most watched film of the last five years in Sardinia, even beating Zalone and Cameron.

Milani’s film totaled 1,082,049 euros in Sardinia compared to 1,079,366 euros Avatar – The Way of Water and 1,072,372 of Tolo Tolo, the latest film by Checco Zalone. Life goes like this the “family” signature of also prevails Paola Cortellesi (Milani’s wife ed.) who had stopped with There’s still tomorrow at 832,820 euros. With almost 155 thousand spectators Life goes like this surpasses Tolo Tolo (153.714), There’s still tomorrow (130,703), Avatar (121,154) and also Barbie e Oppenheimer stopped at 91 thousand and 76 thousand spectators respectively (the population of Sardinia is one and a half million people ed.). A “regional” phenomenon that is very reminiscent of the figures of Alessandro Siani with his comedies in Campania.