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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…

EXCLUSIVE: I meet Amber Heard in the café of a hotel in Sicily and when she reaches to shake hands, the ice breaker becomes the tan orthopedic brace cradling that wrist. "I wish I had a better story, but I was swatting a fly — though in my opinion it was a mosquito which makes it extra annoying — and…

The 69th edition of the Taormina Film Festival has kicked off in Italy at the Teatro Antico amphitheater. Pavarotti Forever kicked off the festival in benefit of the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation with Placido Domingo and Vittorio Grigolo headlining the event. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will hold its Italian…

When Conor Allyn shot Into the Fire with Amber Heard as the film's lead in February 2022, it was months before the actor's defamation trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp. But now, a year on from that legal battle, the film is launching Heard back into the film industry as it world premiered at the Taormina…

EXCLUSIVE: Harrison Ford has turned 80 by working more prolifically than at any time in his career, splitting time between the Emmy-caliber series Shrinking and 1923, while employing the whip and fedora one last time in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and joining Marvel’s Captain America series. In…

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is no stranger to big budget Hollywood productions with his seven U.S. credits to date including Clash Of The Titans, Hannibal and Doctor Strange. This did not stop him from feeling in awe of the scale and legacy of Indiana Jones and the Dial Of Destiny on his first day on…

Amber Heard has been easing back into official public life gently at Italy's Taormina Film Festival over the past few days, accompanying the world premiere of her new film In The Fire by Conor Allyn. Heard stars as an American psychiatrist who travels to a remote plantation in Colombia in the 1890s…

EXCLUSIVE: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen graced the Deadline Studio at the Taormina Film Festival before Sunday’s Italian premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The fifth and final film in the series and the first to not be directed by Steven Spielberg — he handed the b…

The newly rebooted Taormina Film Festival kicked off on Friday night in the Sicilian city's landmark Teatro Antico amphitheatre in an unusual but magnificent style with benefit event "Pavarotti Forever". Placido Domingo, who was part of the famed The Three Tenors trio with Pavarotti and José…

Italy’s Taormina Film Festival kicks off its 69th edition Friday evening against the backdrop of its landmark Teatro Antico amphitheatre with a “Pavarotti Forever” benefit event headlined by Placido Domingo and Vittorio Grigolo. It's not the typical opening for a film festival, but it is in keeping…

Barrett Wissman is gearing up for his inaugural edition of the Taormina Film Festival as the newly appointed Executive and co-Artistic Director of the Sicily-set event, running from June 23 to July 1. Unfolding in the hilltop town of Taormina, famed for its Teatro Antico amphitheatre, views on Mount…