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Bowen Yang and Kelly Marie Tran brought their upcoming movie The Wedding Banquet to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival ahead of its theatrical release in the spring.

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‘Wedding Banquet’ Trailer: Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone Plan a Sham Wedding in Remake of Ang Lee’s Queer Rom-Com Classic

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone help plan a sham wedding in the first trailer for “The Wedding Banquet,” a modern retelling of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer comedy of errors. Set in Seattle, “The Wedding Banquet” follows Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and her girlfriend, Lee (Gladstone), who are trying to have a baby through IVF but can’t afford to pay for another round of fertility treatment. Meanwhile their friend Min (Han Gi-chan), a closeted scion of a multinational empire, has a student visa that’s about to expire.

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‘The Wedding Banquet’ Review: Modern Reimagining of Queer Classic Mostly Finds Its Own Way with Funny New Guests

Carlos Aguilar When Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” was released back in 1993, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was still taking lives, marriage equality in the U.S. was decades away, and queer representation in media remained limited. It was, certainly, a different time.

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‘Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)’ Review: A Tender Queer Indian Drama Born of Grief

Siddhant Adlakha “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” the semi-autobiographical feature debut of director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, is a gentle slow-burn that occasionally becomes electric. A rural gay story that begins in a state of mourning and melancholy, it eventually takes on radiant form, with emotional complexities born out of characters walking around the truth, if only because euphemisms are the only language they have.

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‘Wedding Banquet’ Star Lily Gladstone Was ‘So Excited to Do Something Loving and Lighthearted’ After ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Director Andrew Ahn was just 8 years old when he first watched Ang Lee’s 1993 “The Wedding Banquet,” and the queer romantic comedy about a gay Taiwanese American man who marries a Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card had a profound effect on the budding young filmmaker. “My mother saw the VHS at a video rental store and was like, ‘This is the Asian film that white people are watching. We should see what it’s about,'” Ahn recalled at the Variety Studio presented by Audible.

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‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall Get Lost In Ira Sachs’ Cinematic Exercise [Sundance]

PARK CITY – Sometimes, despite the best efforts of those involved, a movie isn’t really a movie. Maybe it’s really a short subject extended beyond its means.

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Sundance Title ‘Sauna’ Trailer, Mathias Broe’s Film Which Gives Denmark Its First Trans Lead: ‘This Community Wants – and Needs – to See Themselves on the Screen’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Marta Balaga Mathias Broe’s “Sauna,” selected for World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, is making history. “It’s the first time we have a trans person in a leading role in a feature film in Denmark. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have made this movie,” the debuting director tells Variety.

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‘The Wedding Banquet’ Remake, Starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone, to Open BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival

Ellise Shafer Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 rom-com starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone, will open this year’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. The film, which is world premiering Monday night at Sundance Film Festival, will have its international debut on March 19 at London’s BFI Southbank with Ahn in attendance. According to a press release, “The Wedding Banquet” is a “joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness and cultural identity.” The plot description reads: “Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round.

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San Sebastian Fest’s Ikusmira Berriak Unveils New Projects, Including a Mermaid Horror Thriller and a Queer Cowboy Tale

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Ikusmira Berriak, the San Sebastian-based development program behind Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hits “The Water” and “Creatura” and Sundance standout “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” has announced six projects for its 2025 residency program, as the initiative soars in popularity, applications sky-rocketing 34% to 487 for this current year. Reasons for that cut several ways.

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Queer Eye's Tan France to Make Acting Debut In Upcoming Hulu Comedy 'Deli Boys'

Tan France is dabbling in acting!

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‘Rains Over Babel’ Review: This Tropical, Queer Riff on Dante’s Inferno Is a Dazzling, Daring Provocation

Manuel Betancourt There is no shortage of gonzo moments in Gala del Sol’s “Rains Over Babel.” A playful riff on Dante’s “Inferno,” the film is set in a fantastical retrofuturist vision of Cali, Colombia. The tropical city, here reimagined as Purgatory through the lens of queer joy, magical realism and a dash of ’90s punk, plays backdrop to an age-old tale where life and death are gambled over games of dice. Drag queens and demons roam neon-lit bars with equal poise.

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Sundance Competition Title, Indian LGBTQ Drama ‘Cactus Pears,’ Lands MPM Premium for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran Paris-based sales outfit MPM Premium has acquired international rights to “Cactus Pears” (Sabar Bonda), the feature directorial debut from India’s Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, ahead of its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it is in the world cinema dramatic competition. The Marathi-language film follows Anand (Bhushaan Manoj), a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, where he tenderly bonds with a local farmer Balya (Suraaj Suman) struggling to stay unmarried.

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Why ‘Queer’ and ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Are the Kind of LGBTQ+ Movies That Deserve Awards Attention

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com After “Emilia Pérez” led the Oscar nominations with an impressive 13 nominations, it’s clear the film is being celebrated as a landmark moment for queer — and specifically trans — storytelling in cinema. Against the backdrop of a politically charged presidential election that saw Donald Trump re-elected, reigniting fears for trans and nonbinary individuals, the overwhelming recognition of “Emilia Pérez” feels like a defiant cultural statement. However, it’s disappointing that Academy voters made little room for other LGBTQ+ films in its 23 categories.

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'No Taste Like Home' Trailer: Queer Eye's Antoni Porowski Takes Florence Pugh & More On Food Journeys In New NatGeo Series - Watch Now!

Antoni Porowski is taking celebrities on food journeys through their family recipes in the new series No Taste Like Home!

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‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Boss on Tackling Virginity in the Season 3 Finale and Open Relationships in a Potential Season 4: ‘Am I Making the Show Too Queer?’

Selome Hailu SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “The Sex Lives of College Girls.” For once, the sex lives of the college girls in “The Sex Lives of College Girls” are going all right. Bela (Amrit Kaur) has the most surprising evolution of the quartet. After three seasons of maximally obsessing over sex with men, she spontaneously kisses her new friend Haley (Belle Adams), then gleefully comes out as bisexual to all of her friends the next day.

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Sundance: ‘Sweetheart’ Director Luke Wintour on Secret Gay Life in 1720s England and His Aunt Anna Wintour’s Support of His ‘Queerness and Filmmaking’

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Long before – like centuries before — “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” there were Molly Houses, queer underground clubs that operated in London in the 1700s. Yes, the 1700s. By day, these houses were regular coffeehouses, but at night, they turned into secret same-sex watering holes that included drag performances, sexual activity and more.

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GLAAD Media Awards 2025 Nominations Revealed - 'Emilia Perez' Overlooked, 'Wicked' & Others Nominated

The nominations have been revealed for the 2025 GLAAD Media Awards, and one critically acclaimed LGBTQ+ film is notably absent from the pack of nominees.

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GLAAD Media Awards Nominations Revealed; ‘Emilia Pérez’ Snubbed

We have the nominees for the 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which honor fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in film, TV, music, videogames, podcasts, journalism and more.

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‘Come Closer’ Review: The Real-Life Death of a Brother Fuels a Surprising and Redemptive Take on Grief

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Six years ago, Ari Nesher, the teenage son of Israeli director Avi Nesher, was killed in a hit-and-run accident, while riding an electric bicycle. He died on his 17th birthday.

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Jasmin Savoy Brown Returning for ‘Scream 7’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Jasmin Savoy Brown is heading back to Woodsboro. I can exclusively report that Brown will return as Mindy Meeks-Martin in “Scream 7.” Brown joins Mason Gooding, who plays Mindy’s brother Chad, in the seventh installment of the beloved horror franchise. Mindy is the first queer character in the franchise.

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Josh Gad Denies Playing Gay in 'Beauty & the Beast,' Addresses Movie's 'Exclusively Gay Moment'

Josh Gad is opening about about that controversial “exclusively gay moment” in 2017′s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast

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