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Baltasar Kormákur was in a reflective mood at the Taormina Film Festival, where his romantic drama Touch had its Italian premiere this past week. The Icelandic filmmaker compared Touch to his first feature, 2000's 101 Reykjavik. The former was "a black comedy about love," while Touch is "a way more…

Veteran film festival chief Marco Müller took over the reins of Taormina in April, giving him a short window to pull together the ongoing 70th edition. After a week that has included the world premiere of Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne, the Italian premiere of Warner Bros/Universal's Twisters and…

Sharon Stone appeared at the Taormina Film Festival on Friday during a press conference held at the luxe San Domenico Palace (where Season 2 of The White Lotus was partially filmed). Stone is in the hilltop Sicilian town to accept the Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement later this evening. In a…

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Swedish-Chilean filmmaker Daniel Espinosa is feeling reinvigorated after returning to Europe to make his latest feature, Madame Luna, as well as Netflix's upcoming crime drama The Helicopter Heist. The director of Easy Money, Life, Safe House and Morbius tells Deadline: "I spent 12 years in America…

EXCLUSIVE: Alongside prepping to shoot his next feature, veteran filmmaker Abel Ferrara is working on a book, he tells Deadline. Entitled Scene, Ferrara doesn't categorize it exactly as a memoir, saying, "I'm trying to focus it more on the people that I've met and all the crazy sh*t in this business and…

Italian directer and writer Mitzi Peirone's Taormina Film Festival opener Saint Clare employs a number of cues from the story of Joan of Arc, the 15th century warrior and martyr who believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. Saint Clare is set in…

The Taormina Film Festival kicked off this weekend with the world premiere screening of Mitzi Peirone's Saint Clare, starring Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay and Ryan Phillippe. Introducing the movie in the hilltop Sicilian town's open-air Teatro Antico, Thorne thanked attendees for supporting…

Italy's Taormina Film Festival will honor Sharon Stone with a Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement at is upcoming 70th edition this month. The actress will follow in the footsteps of previous honorees Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, Richard Gere, Colin…

Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne will open this year’s Taormina Film Festival. The July fest has unveiled gala lineup, including action title Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung starring Daisy Edgar-Jones; psychological thriller The Surfer by Lorcan Finnegan starring Nicolas Cage and Il giudice ed i…

Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne and Ryan Phillippe will open Italy's Taormina Film Festival.  The film is described as a "thriller" and is based on Don Roff’s novel Clare at Sixteen. Set in a small town, the story follows a solitary young woman who is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate…

Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters sequel will receive its Italian premiere at this year's Taormina Film Festival, which takes place July 12 to July 19 in southern Italy.  Twisters will screen at the festival's historic Teatro Antico amphitheater. This year's event will mark the festival's 70th edition. The…