Thursday cinema week
Booking grids, play weeks and holdovers run Thursday to Wednesday.
Italy
Film distribution in Italy, with FatturaPA
DISTmio runs Italian bookings on a Thursday cinema week, settles net of the 10% ticket VAT and writes your rent invoices as FatturaPA files or issues them in Fatture in Cloud.
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Local rules
What an Italian distributor needs
10% on tickets, 22% on rent
Italian cinemas start with 10% VAT on tickets and your rent invoices with 22%.
Italian ratings
Films carry their Italian rating per version, printed on booking confirmations, with a warning when one is missing.
Required invoice wording
Invoices carry the mentions Italian law requires, such as the reverse-charge note for cinemas in other EU countries.
Italian settlement
From box office to FatturaPA
DISTmio removes the ticket VAT, applies your share, guarantee or flat fee for each cinema week and turns approved settlements into FatturaPA rent invoices.
- Weekly shares, guarantees and flat fees
- Reverse-charge wording for cinemas abroad
- ECB rate on foreign-currency invoices
- Gross box office
- Less 10% ticket VAT
- Net box office
- Rental share
- Guarantee or flat fee
- FatturaPA invoice, 22% VAT
Invoicing and accounting
Fatture in Cloud or FatturaPA files
Issue rent invoices in Fatture in Cloud and DISTmio reads back their status and payments, or give your accountant the period's FatturaPA invoices in one go.
- Fatture in Cloud with status read-back
- FatturaPA invoices of a period for your accountant
- Odoo for invoicing too
FatturaPA
Invoice DM/2025/042
- Payer
- Cinema example
- Film
- The Northern Lights
- Rent
- €12,420
- VAT
- €2,733
- Due date
- 16 Apr
- E-invoice
- FatturaPA
Online payment link
Fatture in Cloud
FatturaPA
Odoo
Cinema week
Play weeks from Thursday to Wednesday
The booking grid, play weeks and the Monday holdover board follow the Thursday week, and a holdover decision extends the booking and orders new KDMs together.
- Booking grid by Thursday weeks
- Monday holdover board with the national average
- One-click extension with new KDMs
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
- Sat
- Sun
Questions
Italy: common questions
How do invoices reach the SdI?
Invoices issued in Fatture in Cloud go to the SdI from there, and DISTmio reads back their status.
Which accounting programs work in Italy?
Fatture in Cloud and Odoo connect directly, and any program that reads FatturaPA can take the invoices of a period.
Italy
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We set up a demo with your films, your cinemas and a Thursday cinema week.
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