Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.
1.) Warner Bros’ psychological sci-fi thriller Companion hit theaters today! Featuring Lukas Gage and Harvey Guillén as a couple, the film centers on a weekend getaway that turns bloody and violent when a subservient android that’s built for human companionship goes haywire. Check out the trailer below and catch Companion at a theater near you.
2.) The new postapocalyptic romance Love Me is in theaters now. Long after humanity’s extinction, a buoy (Kristen Stewart) and a satellite (Steven Yeun) inherit the Earth, and with only the internet as their guide, learn what it means to be alive and in love. In this groundbreaking first feature from Sam and Andy Zuchero, Love Me explores AI and identity through live-action, animatronics, and classic animation in an epic tale of connection and transformation. Watch the trailer below!
3.) Bleeker Street debuted the first teaser for Ang Lee’s reimagining of the 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet, a joyful comedy about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. When Min’s (Han Gi-chan) boyfrend Chris (Bowen Yang) rejects his proposal, he makes the offer to his friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding for her partner Lee’s (Lily Gladstone) IVF treatments. But their plans are upended when Min’s skeptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced. Find the teaser below!
4.) The internationally acclaimed musician Girl in Red is making her feature debut as the lead in Maipo Film’s Low Expectations. The pic follows 29-year-old Maja, an artist who navigates the hard realities of everyday life as she takes a job at a high school in her hometown. In more casting news, Jeremy Allen White is set to star in Netflix’s upcoming bisexual romance drama Enigma Variations. The limited series charts the life of a man, Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Paul’s whirlwind romances show that while we may remain enigmas to ourselves and others, ultimately, we will discover who we’ve always known we were. Keep an eye out for more announcements!
Marie Ulven, the acclaimed musical artist known as Girl in Red, will make her feature debut in Eivind Landsvik’s “Low Expectations.”
The film tells the story of Maja, an artist who, after years of intense success, finds herself at a breaking point. https://t.co/kmxBxMEtWk
— Variety (@Variety) January 28, 2025
5.) Netflix unveiled the official trailer for the new comedy series Running Point, premiering February 27! When scandal forces her brother to resign, Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson) is appointed President of the Los Angeles Waves. Ambitious and often overlooked, Isla must prove that she is the right fit for the job to to her skeptical bothers—including Sandy (Drew Tarver), the chief financial officer of the Waves who is keeping his boyfriend (Scott Evans) a secret from the rest of the family. Watch the trailer below.
6.) Max dropped the first teaser for the fourth and final season of The Righteous Gemstones. In the season, the spoiled Gemstone children finally get their wish to take control of the Church and discover that leadership is harder than they imagined. Watch the teaser below, featuring Kelvin and Keefe!
7.) Juno Dawson, best-selling author and creator of the Doctor Who spin-off podcast, officially joined the writers room for the sophomore season of Doctor Who. In the upcoming season of the GLAAD Media Award nominated series, the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) meets Belinda Chandra and begins an epic quest to get her back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, bigger enemies and wider terrors than ever before. Catch up on the first season of Doctor Who on Disney+ today!
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8.) ABC set the premiere date for the seventh season of The Conners, confirming the chapter to be its last. The Roseanne spinoff follows the titular family as they make their way through the usual trials and tribulations of an average working-class family. In the six-episode farewell season, queer character Mark continues to save up for college tuition at the University of Chicago. Watch the teaser below and catch the premiere of The Conners March 26 on ABC or streaming the following day on Hulu!
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9.) Tan France boarded Hulu’s new comedy series Deli Boys as a guest star. The series follows a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers who lose their convenience store-magnate father and are forced to reckon with their Baba’s secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld. In his first-ever scripted television role, France plays Zubair, an intimidating and stylish British Pakistani South London gang leader. Check out the teaser below and stream Deli Boys March 6!
10.) Rising glimmer rock artist Vienna Vienna dropped the unapologetically queer anthem “God Save the Queens.” Watch the music video below, featuring a cameo from RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Salina EsTitties! In more music news, Lady Gaga shared the official album trailer for her seventh studio album Mayhem, out March 7. In the meantime, don’t miss Gaga’s third single, which is dropping as a commercial during the 2025 Grammy Awards on February 2! Finally, non-profit Gender Amplified announced their first empowering collaborative EP In Bloom, out March 7!
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