Se domani non torno (If I Don’t Come Home Tomorrow), Paola Randi’s film about the family of Giulia Cecchettin, opened at No. 1 in Italy with €1,412,850 ($1.6m) and 186,149 admissions over the Thursday-to-Sunday weekend of 5–8 November, according to Cinetel. Italian films held the top two places for a second weekend running, and the three Italian titles in the top 10 took €3,246,034 between them, 40.7% of the weekend’s takings.
The weekend figure understates the launch. Notorious Pictures, which produced and distributes the film, put it in front of schoolchildren two days before release with a national morning screening, and by Sunday its total stood at €1,921,283 ($2.1m) from 289,360 admissions. That is about two-thirds ahead of where The Boy with Pink Pants, the school-backed hit of 2024, stood at the same point.
Key facts
- Se domani non torno, 5–8 November (Cinetel actuals): €1,412,850 ($1.6m) and 186,149 admissions from 556 cinemas; its €2,541 average was the best in the top 10 outside event screenings
- Total to 8 November, school screening and previews included: €1,921,283 ($2.1m) and 289,360 admissions
- Before release: €508,433 and 103,211 admissions (Cinetel total minus the weekend); the 3 November school screening alone sold 98,184 tickets
- Italian share: three Italian films took €3,246,034 of the €7,977,251 ($8.9m) weekend, or 40.7%
- Market: 1,006,089 admissions; takings up 7.3% on the previous weekend and 31% on the same weekend of 2025
A release built on schools
Randi wrote the film with Lisa Nur Sultan, adapting Cara Giulia, the book Gino Cecchettin wrote with Marco Franzoso about his daughter. Giulia Cecchettin, a university student, was killed by her former boyfriend in November 2023, and the film tells the story through the family she left. Filippo Timi plays Gino, Sabrina Martina plays Giulia, and Tecla Bossi and Tommaso Allione play her sister and brother, Elena and Davide. It was first shown on 23 October at the Rome Film Fest, in a preview held jointly with Alice nella Città.
The school screening on Tuesday 3 November played in 355 cinemas and took €484,019 from 98,184 admissions, BoxOfficeBiz reported from Cinetel data. That one morning accounted for more than 42% of Italy’s gross for the day and almost half its admissions. School tickets averaged about €4.93, against €7.59 for the film’s weekend shows and €7.93 across the market.
The strategy has a recent model. Margherita Ferri’s The Boy with Pink Pants (Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa), released on 7 November 2024 and also launched with school screenings, finished on €10,087,231. CineGuru calculates that it had taken €1,148,211 from its school launch to its first Sunday; Se domani non torno reached €1,921,283 over the same stretch.
The weekend top 10
Cinetel’s figures for Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 November, as published by Cinecittà News and BoxOfficeBiz, with totals to 8 November:
- Se domani non torno (Notorious Pictures), new: €1,412,850 / 186,149 admissions; total €1,921,283 2. Dio ride (God Laughs, PiperFilm), week two: €1,167,303 / 161,472; total €2,770,571 3. Wild Horse Nine (Disney), new: €887,228 / 118,286; total €914,515 4. The Cat in the Hat (Il gatto col cappello, Warner Bros.), new: €797,658 / 107,093; total €958,762 5. Un tranquillo funerale di famiglia (“A Quiet Family Funeral”, 01 Distribution), week two: €665,881 / 87,072; total €1,626,811 6. Stray Kids World Tour “Run It” Live Viewing (Nexo Digital), one day: €502,406 / 23,617 7. Hope (Mubi), new: €328,803 / 39,675; total €396,633 8. Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (Shaun vita da pecora – Operazione Z.U.C.C.A., Lucky Red), week two: €201,441 / 26,631; total €752,871 9. Clayface (Warner Bros.), week three: €192,224 / 22,217; total €1,744,286 10. George Michael: The Faith Tour (Universal), new: €185,635 / 15,268 from Friday 6 November
Giovanni Veronesi’s Dio ride, with Pierfrancesco Favino as a 17th-century friar, rose 3% in its second weekend and was the only film besides the leader to pass €1m. Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, which opened this year’s Mar del Plata festival, averaged €2,252 across 394 cinemas and beat the €870,681 Italian opening of his Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in January 2018. Na Hong-jin’s Hope, a Cannes competition title, opened seventh for Mubi.
The Stray Kids concert broadcast, a single Saturday event in 99 cinemas, took €502,406 from 23,617 admissions: about €21 a ticket, close to three times the market average.
The market
Cinetel tracked 3,155 screens over the weekend. The first eight days of November brought in €13,200,849, up 11% on 2025 but 3% down on 2024. The year to 8 November stands at about €528.5m, 43% ahead of the same point last year, and Cinecittà News says 2026 has already passed each of the last three full-year totals. Dollar figures here use the European Central Bank rate of 6 November, $1.1165 to the euro.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (Odissea, Universal) leads Cinetel’s calendar-year table with €58,942,160. Checco Zalone’s Buen camino (Medusa Film) is second with €40,462,521 in 2026, and €76,594,154 since it opened on Christmas Day 2025.
Elsewhere on the same weekend, Godzilla Minus Zero led both North America and Japan; our North America and Korea weekend report has the wider picture.
What is not yet reported
No final count of schools or pupils for the 3 November screening has been published. Before the event, BoxOfficeBiz reported sign-ups from 65,000 students at 500 schools for screenings in 300 cinemas, without naming the source of those figures; Cinetel recorded 98,184 admissions in 355 cinemas on the day. Notorious Pictures has not announced further school dates. Cinetel’s public tables do not split the weekend by region or format.
Our reading
Italian films have now taken the top two places on consecutive weekends, and this time three of them earned two of every five euros spent. Se domani non torno adds a lesson in distribution. More than a quarter of its total came before the official opening, from students filling a Tuesday-morning slot that a normal release schedule leaves empty.
That is the playbook of The Boy with Pink Pants, and so far it is running ahead of the 2024 film. The test is the second weekend, 12–15 November. A hold close to Dio ride’s would keep it on that path; a steep fall would suggest the schools brought audiences forward rather than adding new ones.
Sources
- Cinetel, public box-office tables (Italian): weekly 2–8 November, daily 8 November and calendar year to 8 November 2026
- Cinecittà News, weekend top 10 on Cinetel data, 5–8 November 2026 (Italian), 9 November 2026
- BoxOfficeBiz, weekend report on Cinetel data with screen counts and market totals (Italian), 9 November 2026
- BoxOfficeBiz, 3 November school screenings on Cinetel data (Italian)
- CineGuru, Friday 6 November box office and Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa comparison (Italian)
- Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Se domani non torno at the Rome Film Fest with Alice nella Città (English title, 23 October preview)
- Notorious Pictures, Se domani non torno film page (Italian)
- European Central Bank euro reference rates, 6 November 2026 (USD 1.1165)