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Gold Derby's top news stories for May 19, 2025.

Netflix finds the way to Sesame Street

Netflix has acquired global streaming rights to Sesame Street, the genre-defining children's television series that's been entertaining and educating young viewers for over 50 years. The pickup comes six months after Warner Bros. Discovery opted to not renew its streaming deal for Sesame Street, leaving the show's future in jeopardy. But the crisis is averted, and Sesame Street Season 56 will premiere later this year on Netflix. According to Netflix, the new season will feature format changes and the return of popular segments like "Elmo’s World" and "Cookie Monster’s Foodie Truck." Additionally, episodes will be built around one longer, 11-minute story. Netflix has exclusive worldwide premiere rights, but episodes will continue to be available day-and-date on PBS stations in the U.S. and across PBS Kids digital platforms. Netflix will also be able to develop video games...

Penélope Cruz has joined the cast of Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s upcoming feature La Bola Negra (The Black Ball), taking inspiration from an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca.

Calvo and Ambrossi, who are known jointly as Los Javis and made waves with genre-bending thriller La Mesias, unveiled fresh casting details at an event Monday in Cannes.

Goodfellas’ Eva Diederix was also in attendance to announce the company had boarded sales on the title, which is an original Movistar Plus+ film in collaboration with Suma Content Films and co-produced with Le Pacte.

Further cast announcements included singer-songwriter Guitarricadelafuente, who will make his big-screen debut; Miguel Bernardeau; Carlos González; and Cannes Best Actress winner Lola Dueñas (Volver), who also won the Feroz, Forqué, and Platino Awards for her performance in La Mesías.

The duo’s breakout film La Mesías premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival,...

Una reinterpretación queer de la inacabada obra de Lorca. © Getty Images

Los Javis han anunciado hoy en el Festival de Cannes el reparto de su nueva película La bola negra, que arranca su rodaje en agosto en distintas localidades de España y de Europa.

Guitarricadelafuente (cantautor español que debuta en el cine), Miguel Bernardeau (Querer), Carlos González (Mariliendre), Lola Dueñas (La Mesías) y Penélope Cruz (Volver) encabezarán el reparto de la película que toma como punto de partida una de las últimas obras, inacabada, de Federico García Lorca desde una perspectiva queer y el fenómeno teatral La piedra oscura, de Alberto Conejero.

La bola negra narra las vidas entrelazadas de tres hombres en tres épocas diferentes. Tres existencias íntimamente ligadas por la sexualidad y el deseo, el dolor y la herencia.

En palabras de Javier Calvo y Javier Ambrossi: «Es una revisitación queer de una parte de la historia de nuestro país.

Penélope Cruz is set to star in “La bola negra,” a new feature film written, directed and produced by celebrated Spanish filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, collectively known as Los Javis.

The film is produced Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content Films in co-production with France’s Le Pacte, with French sales company Goodfellas taking sales rights outside Spain and France, it was announced in Cannes on Monday.

“La bola negra” will premiere exclusively in cinemas in 2026 before arriving on Movistar Plus+ sometime later.

Joining Cruz in the star-studded cast are Guitarricadelafuente, making his screen debut, Miguel Bernardeau (“Elite”), Carlos González (“Veneno”) and acclaimed actress Lola Dueñas, known for her award-winning performances in “The Sea Inside” and “La Mesías.”

“We wrote Penelope’s role specifically for her. Her humor and elegance make it a pleasure to work with her,” said Javier Calvo during the Cannes event.

Inspired by Federico García Lorca...

La primera serie en clausurar el Festival de Málaga. © Atresplayer

La plataforma Atresplayer ha compartido el primer tráiler y ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de su serie Mariliendre, que cuenta con la producción de Javier Calvo y Javier Ambrossi, y es la primera serie que clausura el Festival de Málaga.

Mariliendre sigue a Meri Román, que era una reina de la noche gay de Madrid, pero de eso han pasado ya más de 10 años. Ahora, a sus 35, es una diva destronada que vive atormentada por su pasado y aburrida en su mediocre presente. Tras la muerte de su padre, Meri reconecta con su séquito de amigos gays, rememorando su pasado y los temazos musicales que marcaron aquella época, mientras intenta definir su caótica vida y su identidad.

Blanca Martínez será la encargada de dar vida a Meri, acompañada de un elenco principal que incluye a Martín Urrutia, Omar Ayuso,...