Baltasar Kormákur’s Romantic Drama ‘Touch’ Gets Summer Release From Focus Features

Anthony D'Alessandro
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EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features we hear has set a July 12, 2024 limited theatrical release date for Baltasar Kormákur’s romantic-drama Touch.

Universal Pictures International is handling international distribution sans Iceland.

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The movie is based on Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson’s bestselling Icelandic novel published by Ecco/Harper Collins in the U.S in August 2022. The movie follows one widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago before his time runs out. The story spans several decades and continents. Ólafsson and Kormákur co-wrote the movie.

RVK Studios’ Kormákur and Agnes Johansen produced Touch alongside Good Chaos’ Mike Goodridge.

Touch stars Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur, Masahiro Motoki, Yoko Narahashi, Meg Kubota, Tatsuya Tagawa, Charles Nishikawa, Sigurður Ingvarsson, Starkaður Pétursson, Benedikt Erlingsson, Kieran Buckeridge, Ruth Sheen, María Ellingsen and Masatoshi Nakamura.

Focus Features’ 2024 lineup includes Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s Drive-Away Dolls, the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, Robert Eggers’ reimagining of Nosferatu, Edward Berger’s thriller Conclave, Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, Zelda Williams’ feature directorial debut Lisa Frankenstein by Diablo Cody, Kobi Libii’s satirical comedy The American Society of Magical Negroes (which is premiering at Sundance), and Goran Stolevski’s next feature Housekeeping for Beginners.

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