MUMBAI: Disney Pictures‘ Toy Story 3 will have its premiere at this year‘s Taormina Film Festival that is due to commence on 12 June and end on 18 June.

The film‘s premiere will help solidify the 56-year-old film festival‘s reputation as a major launch pad for big-budget films.

In the recent past, the festival has served as the starting point for Michael Bay‘s Transformers and John Woo‘s Mission Impossible II. But the screening of Toy Story 3 will be unlike those two screenings. The film will have a world premiere, with the festival screening preceding any other public screenings of the Disney film.