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Former Venice Film Festival head Marco Müller has been named Artistic Director of Italy's Taormina Film Fest.  The announcement was made today by the special commissioner of the Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation/ Fondazione Taormina Arte Sicilia, Sergio Bonomo, who said: “Maestro Müller’s professional…

The 69th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily drew starpower that included Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Amber Heard from In the Fire, Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego from The Absence of Eden, and honored guests like John Landis, Willem Dafoe…

EXCLUSIVE: Italian-Senegalese social media personality Khaby Lame is the world's most followed TikToker, with 161.3 million followers. This puts him way ahead of U.S. influencers Charli D'Amelio and Bella Poarch who are currently in second and third position with 151 million and 92.6 million…

EXCLUSIVE: While Zoe Saldana has starred in recent blockbusters Avatar: The Way Of Water, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and makes her TV series debut this month in the Taylor Sheridan created series Special Ops: Lioness, nothing is closer to her heart than The Absence of Eden, which marks the feature…

As Indiana Jones and the Dial Of Destiny hits cinemas with Harrison Ford on his last tour of duty in the role of its titular whip-cracking protagonist, fans around the world have been turning up to screenings dressed in the character’s trademark fedora and leather jacket. Talking to Deadline at the…

Abel Ferrara is currently working on two very different documentaries – one on legendary singer-songwriter-poet Patti Smith and another on the war in Ukraine – and the director touched down at Deadline's studio in Taormina to reveal a bit more about each project.  Speaking about the Smith…

William Baldwin was among the stars hitting the Taormina Film Festival this week, accompanying the world premiere of Francesco Cinquemani's family movie Billie's Magic World against the backdrop of the town's Ancient Greek amphitheater. He co-stars as a child-snatching villain alongside Irish actress…

Bella Thorne has been on and off sets since the age of six years old, kicking off with the Farrelly Brothers's Stuck On You, Entourage and The O.C., and then breaking out as a teenager on the Disney Channel show Shake It Up opposite Zendaya. Nearly 20 years and some 130 credits later, the 25-year-old…

UPDATED with latest photos: The Taormina Film Festival kicked off its 2023 edition on June 23 with a lineup that included the Italian premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny which brought out stars Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen, and the Amber Heard-starring In the Fire directed by…

Bella Thorne set down at Italy's Taormina Film Festival this week as guest-curator for its Influential Shorts event in which her own directorial debut Paint Her Red also premiered. "I sent my short and it got picked and the head of the festival Barrett [Wissman] reached out and asked if I would be…

Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima hit the Taormina Film Festival on Wednesday for the world premiere of the short film FIFA: A Love Letter to Rwanda, going behind the scenes of the FIFA congress in the Rwandan capital of Kigali in March of this year. Lima, who was announced as a FIFA Global Fan…

John Landis, who is best known for his pioneering comedy works of the 1980s such as The Blues Brothers, Trading Places and Coming to America, admits that the current filmmaking climate is in a desperate state thanks to the pandemic and the rise of the streamers.  Reflecting on his career at…