• The Hollywood Reporter Paul Mescal and Josh O'Conner to star in early 20th century gay love story, The History of Sound (the curious part is that it's about America and both stars are British and the director is South African)
• The Guardian Eternals banned in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait over gay content
• People actor Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar) has come out publicly before his memoir "You Can't Be Serious" hits. He'll be marrying his partner of 11 years soon
More after the jump including a Paul Newman memoir, new roles for Joe Alwyn and Gael Garcia Bernal, Titane's Oscar dreams, luscious Italians and the annual OUT100 list...
• New York Times Paul Newman memoir to be released 14 years after his death!!!
• GQ James Ivory, one of our all time favourite directors has a memoir that was just released. Here's an excerpt talking about Call Me By Your Name. (Yes, we just ordered a copy as we typed this)
• /Film Gael Garcia Bernal will play a Werewolf By Night for Marvel on Disney+
• EW Tom Hanks talks to Jimmy Kimmel about his recently departed Bosom Buddies co-star Peter Scolari
• MNPP Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley star in Claire Denis' next film The Stars at Noon
• Next Best Picture makes a case that Titane will surprise this awards season
• One Inch Barrier takes on sexy Italian comedy Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (and speaks blasphemy - i love that movie) and the 1964 Best Foreign-Language Film race which was an excellent grouping
• MNPP Speaking of luscious Italians, a necessary list: the hottest men in Luchino Visconti's filmography
Finally the "Out 100" issue of Out is upon us where they highlight queer people making a difference in numerous fields. Naturally for our purposes we focus on the film people:
• BREAKOUT STAR Ariana DeBose gets one of the covers. A lot of this 'performer of the year' stuff will depend on if she delivers in West Side Story but magazine profiles have long lead times. We hope she will but Rita Moreno is a tough act to follow!
• ACTORS Billy Eichner, Emma Corrin, Justice Smith (who everyone needs to fall in love with -- he's great) and more
• BEHIND THE CAMERA Producers, writers, executives etcetera including Lana Wachowski (with a fresh installment of The Matrix coming) and our friend Leslye Headland (pictured above) whose new Star Wars series for Disney+ is coming soon