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Sharon Stone appeared at the Taormina Film Festival today, 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…

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: Here’s the plan for the 2024 Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF). The 38th edition of the fest will run from November 1-17 at venues across the UK city, with screenings held at the Everyman Leeds, Vue Leeds in the Light, Hyde Park Picture House and Howard Assembly Room.  A full…

The 20th anniversary New York Comedy Festival this November will feature more than 200 comedians in more than 100 shows throughout the city, with a roster of headliners including Judd Apatow, Dave Attell, Bill Maher, Tracy Morgan, JB Smoove and Jaboukie Young-White, among others. With performances at…

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…

UPDATED with all days: San Diego Comic-Con released the full schedule for its 2024 edition, which this year runs July 25-28. The annual confab is officially centered at the San Diego Convention Center, but in reality it invades the city with an army of comics, genre, movie and TV fans and cosplayers…

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…

Dubai-based distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment has acquired Middle East and North African rights for documentary Hollywoodgate, capturing Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal in August 21. Egyptian filmmaker and journalist Ibrahim Nash'at's audaciously takes…

UPDATED with producers’ statement: The producer of Rebel Wilson’s The Deb have responded to claims Wilson made earlier Wednesday about their involvement in Australian musical movie, which is Wilson’s directorial debut. "RW's allegations are false, defamatory, and disappointing,” a spokesperson for…

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…

Toronto International Film Festival has added five more world premiere titles to its Gala and Special Presentation programs. Ron Howard’s survival thriller Eden will debut in the Gala program. Based on true events about the lengths people go to in pursuit of a better life, it is written by…