Apple Original Films unveiled the trailer and key art for its award-winning documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, which is debuting on Apple TV+ on Nov. 14, per a press release. The 105-minute movie is described as “a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership.” The film—which features an original song performed by Grammy winner Sara Bareilles and LGBTQ+Grammy and Emmy winner Brandi Carlile—was directed by Ryan White, who also produced alongside Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Stef Willen.
The iconic Carol Burnett, an alumna of UCLA, announced two major gifts to the school—an endowment to establish a scholarship at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and a donation of the more than 140 industry awards and honors that Burnett has received over her seven-decade career, Variety reported. Among the awards are seven Emmys, six Golden Globes, a Grammy, a Tony, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Kennedy Center Honor, Peabody Awards and a Stephen Sondheim Award.
The timing of the donation coincided with the announcement Thursday of the Carol Burnett Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship in Music Theater.
Following the NBC television event Wicked: One Wonderful Night, which aired Nov. 6, the Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live)—The Soundtrack is now available on all digital streaming platforms via Republic Records and Verve Records, per a press release. Recorded live at LA’s Dolby Theatre, the album captures performances from Wicked stars and Academy Award® nominees Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, alongside Jeff Goldblum, Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode and more. Fans can also preorder the official soundtrack to Wicked: For Good, arriving Nov. 21 to coincide with the film’s theatrical release.
The movie Heightened Scrutiny will stream on Gathr on Nov. 13-20 for Trans Awareness Week, per a press release. The film follows Chase Strangio—an ACLU attorney and the first out trans person to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court—as he fights a high-stakes legal battle to overturn Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth (United States v. Skrmetti).
Grammy-winning singer Adele will make her acting debut in Tom Ford‘s new film, Cry to Heaven, per Variety. The filmmaker/fashion designer will direct, produce and write the adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1982 novel. Set in 18th-century Italy, the fictional story follows two men—a Venetian noble and a castrated opera singer—whose lives become intertwined. Some of the co-stars will include Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ciarán Hinds, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Hunter Schafer, Thandiwe Newton and Lux Pascal.
LGBTQ+ actress Sarah Paulson is reportedly reuniting with producer Ryan Murphy, yet again—this time, on the series Monster, Variety noted. Paulson is nearing a deal to appear in the upcoming fourth season of Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix anthology series, and she would play notorious serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Season four will actually focus on Lizzie Borden as well as the axe murders of her father and stepmother.
Tony-winning non-binary actor Cole Escola has been cast in the third season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of One Piece as fan-favorite character Bon Clay, per Them. Clay is described as “a master of performance and precision who is as dangerous as they are dazzling, a theatrical assassin who turns combat into art.” The character in the original manga is described as an okama—a Japanese term that can refer to gender nonconforming men, trans women and cross-dressers.
Out former WNBA star Sue Bird and ex-NFL quarterback Eli Manning are among members of the NWSL’s new celebrity-laden advisory board that is tasked with growing the league commercially, ESPN noted. Each person on the advisory board is already an investor in an NWSL club, and each of the 16 teams is represented by up to two delegates. Bird and Manning represent Gotham FC on the advisory board; other celebrity investors on the board include actress Elizabeth Banks (Boston Legacy FC), Olympic gold-medal skier Lindsey Vonn (Utah Royals) and NBA legend Magic Johnson (Washington Spirit).
The Philadelphia Jewish Film + Media Festival (PJFM) is continuing through Nov. 23, per Philadelphia Gay News. The opening-night selection of this year’s festival was the documentary Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, about the iconic queer musician. In addition, two dramas about queer teens (Unspoken; Girls Like Us) plus a documentary (Sabbath Queen) are part of the PJFM’s “JudaiQa” section of the festival, which focuses on queer Jewish stories.
Queer model/actress Ruby Rose claimed that Sydney Sweeney’s acting was why the new movie Christy (about lesbian former boxer Christy Martin) had one of the all-time worst box-office openings, according to USA Today. Christy debuted at $1.3 million after its Nov. 7 release, according to Box Office Mojo; for films opening in more than 2,000 theaters, it ranks No. 12 on the worst wide openings list. Although Sweeney talked about how “proud” she was to tell Martin’s story, Rose posted, “For her PR to talk about it flopping and saying [Sweeney] did it for the ‘people.’ None of ‘the people’ want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us.” Earlier this year, The Guardian reported that Sweeney was registered as a Republican voter in Florida months before President Donald Trump won a second White House term.
World of Wonder unveiled the superstar guest-judge lineup and official trailer for the newest season of Canada’s Drag Race, premiering Thursday, Nov. 20, on WOW Presents Plus in the US and select territories worldwide, a press release announced. Brooke Lynn Hytes and Traci Melchor are being joined by special resident guest judges including Emmy-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Carson Kressley; choreographer/personality Hollywood Jade; and dancer, choreographer, activist, television host and filmmaker Sarain Fox. Some of the celebrity guest judges will be choreographer/singer/former American Idol judge Paula Abdul, Grammy-nominated artist Rufus Wainwright and RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars winner Alyssa Edwards.
Despite a truckload of negative reviews, All’s Fair—the new Ryan Murphy legal drama starring and executive-produced by Kim Kardashian—delivered Hulu Originals’ biggest scripted series premiere in three years, amassing 3.2 million views globally after three days of streaming, per Deadline. The negative reviews—with some calling All’s Fair the worst show ever with the worst acting—triggered a new media cycle of stories. Kardashian and co-star Glenn Close took the reviews in stride, clapping back online with humor.
Pop star Sabrina Carpenter will lead her first major studio feature with a new musical at Universal Pictures, per Variety. (Carpenter will produce it as well.) The project is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s trippy novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The news came just a week after Carpenter earned six Grammy nominations for her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, including album of the year, record of the year and song of the year.
The documentary This Ordinary Thing will debut Dec. 5 at NYC’s Cinema Village, with a theatrical rollout and VOD release date to follow, per a press release. The film (directed by Nick Davis) tells the story of non-Jews who helped save Jewish people across Europe during The Holocaust, and it combines never-before-seen archival footage with the testimonies of more than 40 different people who—working independently and at great risk to themselves and their families—saved thousands of Jewish strangers from almost certain death. The narrating cast includes Helen Mirren, F. Murray Abraham, Lily Tomlin, Carrie Coon, Jeremy Irons, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden and Stephen Fry, among others.
Emmy-winning actor Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso; Shrinking) will star and executive-produce the series Escorted at Amazon Prime Video with an eight-episode order, Variety revealed. The show is described thusly: “A divorced dad (Goldstein) in Manhattan accidentally becomes a male escort in this romantic comedy about second chances, the mayhem of co-parenting, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.” Goldstein will work with fellow showrunner/executive producer Brian Gallivan, who first gained recognition for his Second City web series Sassy Gay Friend.
Queer singer/actress Raven-Symoné recently stopped by the Hate to Break It to Ya podcast, hosted by Jamie Kennedy—and discussed Bill Cosby, with whom she co-starred for three years on The Cosby Show, Out noted. “There’s so many things that Bill Cosby pioneered and literally broke the wall,” adding that she can “separate the creator from the creation.” She also said, “He’s also been accused of some horrific things. That does not excuse [him], but that’s his personal [life]. So personally, keep that there, and then business-wise, know what he did there as well.”
Rapper Kendrick Lamar led all Grammy nominees with nine nods, including album, record and song of the year, CNN noted. Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny and Sabrina Carpenter were also top nominees this year. Bad Bunny made history by becoming the first Spanish-language artist to simultaneously receive nominations in the best album, record and song categories in the same year with “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”). Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl was not represented because it wasn’t released within the window of eligibility. The Grammys will take place Feb. 1, 2026, at the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles.
On a related note, LGBTQ+ British artist Yungblud was nominated in all three Grammy rock categories, a press release noted. He received nominations for Best Rock Album for his latest album, IDOLS (Capitol Records); Best Rock Song for his ballad “Zombie”; and Best Rock Performance for his cover of Black Sabbath’s “Changes.”
And out gay saxophonist Dave Koz received yet another Grammy nomination, a media release stated. Koz, a 10-time nominee, received a nod this year for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for Just Us—his work with pianist Bob James that claimed the No. 1 spot on the Luminate (formerly SoundScan) Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart earlier this year. The icons celebrated the album’s release with a performance at the Grammy Museum® in Los Angeles.
On the Penn Badgley podcast Podcrushed, queer British singer Sam Smith talked about their weight-loss journey as a kid, per Queerty. Smith said, in part, “My queerness was something that I could handle and could have a grasp on it, but my weight as a kid was the hardest thing for me in school and, weirdly, the thing I got teased most about. I had surgery on my chest when I was 13 years old, because I had a growing chest. … So I got liposuction when I was 13 years old. They [Smith’s parents] were supportive. They were hugely supportive of the whole thing because they saw how much it was crippling everything about me.”
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, will make a cameo as herself in Close Personal Friends, a film starring Lily Collins, Brie Larson, Jack Quaid and Henry Golding, Vogue noted, citing Variety. The comedy is currently shooting in Los Angeles. The movie reportedly centers on a “regular” couple who meet a celebrity twosome on a trip to Santa Barbara; when the two couples become fast friends, lines are crossed and awkwardness happens.
Ncuti Gatwa will join another queer UK actor, Cynthia Erivo, on the animated film Bad Fairies, per Deadline. The original musical comedy follows a subversive gang of fairies as they shake up their magical world. Erivo’s Jayne Staplegun is described as a trailblazing fairy whose defiant streak sparks a rebellion.
Tyler Perry has donated nearly $1.4 million to organizations supporting those impacted by the loss of the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, People noted. “If you’ve never been poor then you may not fully understand the life changing impact SNAP benefits mean to hard-working people, to our seniors and to our children,” he told People in an exclusive statement. “For millions of people, it could mean extreme hunger. For newborns, it could mean a lack of access to formula.”
Katy Perry hasn’t spoken about ending her six-year engagement to Orlando Bloom yet—but she’s apparently singing about it, per Elite Daily. About four and a half months after their breakup went public, Perry released her new single “bandaids,” which chronicles the dissolution of a relationship with a partner who is uninterested in saving things. The accompanying music video makes it clear Perry (who is currently dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) is singing about Bloom by incorporating a powerful reference to their daughter, Daisy. Most importantly, Perry indicates that she has no regrets about the romance because it brought Daisy into the world.
A NYC-based neurologist said that former talk-show host Wendy Williams does not have frontotemporal dementia, per Page Six. The findings reportedly conflict with an earlier test that determined she suffers from the condition—a group of brain diseases that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes that are associated with personality, behavior and language, per Mayo Clinic. The newer results from the neurologist were sent to Williams’ legal team late last month, per the outlet; famed attorney Joe Tacopina confirmed to Page Six that he will demand a jury trial.
On CBS Mornings, Gayle King sat down with Telisha Nikki Jones, the creator behind Xania Monet—the first AI creation to hit Billboard’s Radio Airplay Chart, a press release noted. King delved into why and how Jones created Monet, exploring the intersection of identity, innovation and artistry in the age of artificial intelligence. Jones said, in part, “We’re not replacing traditional artists; we’re expanding what’s possible. Technology doesn’t erase emotion, it amplifies it. Xania was never meant to compete with anyone, but was created to collaborate and show that imagination and innovation can coexist beautifully.”
Rapper Nicki Minaj has aligned with the White House in multiple social-media posts, according to Them. Recently, Minaj reposted an official White House TikTok video promoting all of Donald Trump’s supposed achievements during the first year of his second presidential term; the achievements included the anti-trans “No men in women’s sports,” alongside “Our cities are safer than ever” and “World peace.” Minaj’s reposting happened a few days after the rapper posted a screenshot of a Trump post from Truth Social, his social-media platform. Blake Lively is claiming that she has suffered $161 million in damages due to the smear campaign launched against her during the release of the movie It Ends With Us, per Variety. Among other things, Lively’s attorneys allege she has lost at least $56.2 million in past and future earnings from acting, producing, speaking engagements and endorsements. Lively is scheduled to go to trial in March 2026 in her lawsuit against co-star/director Justin Baldoni, producer Jamey Heath, studio head Steve Sarowitz and their publicists; she alleges that she was targeted online in retaliation for raising sexual-harassment complaints on the movie’s set.