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Thania Garcia Bill Murray’s “Nick the Lounge Singer” made a big return for Friday’s SNL50 “Homecoming Concert,” with additional musical support from Maya Rudolph, Cecily Strong and Ana Gasteyer. Murray introduced himself as Nick Valentine before launching into a monologue with Paul Shaffer, ex-SNL pianist and David Letterman’s former musical director on piano, as they had it in the original sketch from the 1970s.

Jamie Lang A selection of Spanish titles being sold at the European Film Market. “My Friend Eva,” Cesc Gay A romantic comedy about Eva, who, after 20 years of marriage, seeks to rediscover love and passion, directed by “Truman” helmer Gay. “Cesc’s films are always highly anticipated.

Mubi is continuing its acquisition streak, picking up “The History of Sound,” the anticipated gay romance drama starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. Focus Features and Universal Pictures International, meanwhile, have acquired international rights for the film. Directed by Oliver Hermanus (“Living,” “Moffie”), the feature finished production earlier this year.

Lauren Coates The long-running web series “Venice The Series” has released its seventh season, streaming exclusively on Vimeo.com on Friday. Starring and executive produced by two-time Daytime Emmy winner Crystal Chappell, “Venice The Series” follows Gina Brogno, a single, gay interior designer navigating her love life and family issues while juggling life in Long Beach.

Lady Gaga did something during I thought YouTube had killed forever: she dropped her new song, “Abracadabra” and its accompanying video with essentially no warning. Fans knew the pop icon was planning to tease “Abracadabra” during the broadcast, but these days that usually means 11 seconds of a verse (tops!) followed by a plea to pre-save the track. So to get not only the full song but the entire video was almost too much serotonin to bear.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Best Friend Forever has unveiled the steamy trailer for “Queerpanorama,” the latest feature by Hong Kong filmmaker Jun Li which world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival. Set in Hong Kong, “Queerpanorama” revolves around a gay man who “impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next sex date.

Carrie Coon couldn’t tease much about The Gilded Age Season 3, but she had one particular group of people to thank for keeping the show going.

EXCLUSIVE: Joel Kim Booster just wants to make people laugh — and if anyone could use a moment of levity right now, its film and TV writers.

Dolly Parton musical in Manchester was suspended mid-show due to the homophobic abuse spewed by an audience member.Directed by Gabriel Barre, Here You Come Again is a musical comedy that features Parton’s character as a fairy godmother giving life lessons in song to a fan going through difficult times.It recently ran at the Opera House Manchester from February 4 through 8 and according to Steven Webb – a stage actor who plays the role of a super fan of the country music icon in the musical – he and his colleagues are met with the abuse “almost every week”.“The amount of audience members we have had to eject from our show due to homophobia is insane,” Webb shared in a TikTok. He continued: “Just this week, in Manchester alone, last night we had to eject someone who was shouting out slurs.#musicaltheatre ♬ original sound – Stevie Webb “On Wednesday (February 5), we had to stop the whole show… leave the stage, because a woman was so disgusted that there was a gay character onstage.”He continued to share that there was a “massive ruckus” during the performance due to the woman shouting which then prompted other audience members to shout at her for being rude which resulted in them taking a 15-minute break.“This is a Dolly Parton musical!” Webb said.

Here You Come Again, a performance at the Opera House in Manchester, England, had to be stopped after a woman began screaming at the stage, leading other audience members to yell at her in a massive disturbance.The woman was ejected from the building.Recounting the incident in a TikTok post, Webb noted that a similar incident occurred at another performance when an audience member hurled anti-gay slurs at the stage, prompting his removal.Webb said the fact that performers ran into such intolerance from U.K. audiences was eye-opening.#musicaltheatre ♬ original sound – Stevie Webb “The amount of audience members we have had to eject from our show is insane,” Webb said.

A Dolly Parton-themed musical was suspended mid-show due to homophobic abuse hurled from the audience.

Cute couple Ryan “R.K.” Russell and Corey O’Brien are still going strong after being linked for about five years!

Get ready for more English Teacher!

FX comedy series “English Teacher” has been renewed for Season 2, Variety has learned. The series originally debuted on FX and Hulu back in September 2024 to positive reviews. Brian Jordan Alvarez created the series and also stars.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor “Night Stage,” the gay erotic thriller by Brazil’s Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon, has been acquired by German distributor Salzgeber, which will release the film in Germany and Austria. The film will world premiere in Berlinale’s Panorama sidebar next week. M-Appeal is handling international sales for the film, and has released the international trailer.

Lloyd Wilson has said homophobia is still a "chronic problem" in Scottish football - after the leading referee came out as gay at the age of 30.

With Broad City in their rearview, Ilana Glazer is plotting their return to television.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Lukas Gage is ready to tell on himself. The 29-year-old actor will make his writing debut with a memoir, “I Wrote This for Attention,” out in October. He says the book shines a light on what he’s learned from his past mistakes.

As my first Sundance Film Festival comes to a close amid a precarious time for my community and many others, I look back on this year’s cinematic lineup with some optimism for LGBTQ representation when it’s needed most. From dark comedies about human connection to heartfelt family dramas about the shared queer experience and documentaries about the detriments of censorship and anti-trans legislation, filmmakers are holding space for progress, despite growing government-facilitated rollbacks on transgender and LGBTQ rights.

Guy Lodge Film Critic The Copenhagen sauna and sex club where Johan (Magnus Juhl Andersen) works is called Adonis, and he does his best to represent the brand. Tall, toned and tan, with a center-parted mop of wavy blond hair, he’s the very picture of Scandi male beauty — and a gay man who has never had his desirability questioned or challenged by others.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Queerpanorama,” the latest feature by Hong Kong filmmaker Jun Li, has been boarded by Brussels-based sales company Best Friend Forever (“Universal Language”) ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Slated to bow in the Panorama section, the movie marks Li’s follow up to “Drifting” which premiered in competition at Rotterdam in 2021 and won best adapted screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards.