Roberto Benigni Calls Mobile Movie Show “Blasphemous”

Italian film director and Oscar winner Roberto Benigni has his panties up in a bunch over a movie being released first on mobile phones in Italy. Sydney Pollack’s movie “The Interpreter” is being sold on Italian mobile company H3G, by the film’s Italian distributor Eagle Pictures, where for a fee of €9 ($10.2), users can watch the movie on their phone as many times as they liked for a full week.

But Benigni says that is “blasphemous” and as a result several major Italian exhibitors are refusing to show the movie in theaters. Apparently, he said that the beauty of the cinema is the largeness of the screen and that can’t be felt on the phones.

reBlogged from Moco News,

emily | 8:40 AM | News, Buzz |
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