“La Bola Negra” has mucho heat. The generational queer drama swept the Cannes Film Festival off its feet in May, nabbing a $5 million sale to Netflix and earning helmers Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo the jury prize for best director. After lighting up last weekend’s Telluride Film Festival, the Penélope Cruz-starrer is on its
When a movie makes more than $1.4 billion at the box office and earns eight Academy Award nominations, the studio is going to want to make a sequel. Such was the case with Warner Bros. and “Barbie.” The blockbuster movie, released in July 2023, catapulted filmmaker Greta Gerwig, producer Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, aka