From Isabella Rossellini to Léa Seydoux, from Alfonso Cuaron to Olivier Assayas, a long list of renowned directors and actors have signed an appeal launched by Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, Wes Anderson and Ari Aster urging President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Giorgia Meloni to prevent movie theatres that have been shut down in Rome and beyond to be converted into malls, among others.

The concern that have led many artists to mobilize over the past few weeks, already expressed by architect and Life Senator Renzo Piano, has been voiced in the United States, where Scorsese urged colleagues from around the world to sign the letter to "save the last possibility of redemption of one of the most important cultural and artistic cities of the world".