Filmmaker John Carpenter and actors Colman Domingo and Charlize Theron have been named as this year’s honorees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures‘ annual fundraising gala in October.

The gala, co-chaired by Robert Rodriguez, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, is set for October 17.

Theron will receive the Icon Award, celebrating an artist whose career has had a significant global impact. Carpenter, a director and composer, will receive the Luminary Award, given to an artist whose singular contributions have expanded the creative possibilities of filmmaking. Domingo will receive the Vantage Award honoring an artist who is helping to challenge dominant narratives around cinema.

“The Academy Museum Gala is a celebration of the artists and storytellers whose work continues to shape the cultural impact of cinema around the world,” said Academy Museum Director and President Amy Homma. “For our sixth annual Gala, we are honored to recognize John Carpenter, Colman Domingo, and Charlize Theron, whose extraordinary careers exemplify the creativity, innovation, and excellence that continues to move the industry forward.”

The Academy previously announced upcoming programs that include Theron in conversation with the museum’s Teen Council on August 22, featuring a screening of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Carpenter will host three nights of screenings of his films, including Halloween (1978), on September 26, in celebration of The Horror Show, the Academy Museum’s new large-scale exhibition.

The 2026 Academy Museum Gala Host Committee, also announced today, includes Jessica Alba, Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman, Jon M. Chu, Kirsten Dunst, Nicholas Galitzine, Ludwig and Serena Göransson, Regina Hall, Kate Hudson, Jessica Lange, Greta Lee, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Rami Malek, Demi Moore, Olivia Munn, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Questlove, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen, Bird Runningwater, and Teyana Taylor.

Matthew McConaughey has starred in multiple rom-coms, but there’s one in particular that he says still makes him money even after 20 years.

In a new interview, the actor said that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days still brings him money in residuals after all these years.

“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is the gift that keeps on giving,” McConaughey said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I think it’s probably my favorite romcom I’ve done.”

He added, “And it still pays the best mailbox money of any film I’ve ever done. By far. By lengths.”

Other romantic comedies McConaughey starred in include The Wedding Planner (2001), Failure to Launch (2006), Fool’s Gold (2008), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), among others.

McConaughey said he used to be able to pinpoint the spike in residuals, saying, “When it used to be just DVDs or cable, every March I’d get a big check because Valentine’s Day.”

“But, I mean, look: the movie for me, for that genre, let me just own that genre. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days … that’s a real anchor in the rom-com genre through time,” he added.

Donald Petrie directed How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which is based on the picture book by Michele Alexander and Jennie Long. The screenplay by Kristen Buckley, Brian Regan, and Burr Steers revolves around advertising executive Benjamin Barry (McConaughey), who makes a bet he can make any woman fall in love with him. At the same time, writer Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) plans to write an article about how to make a man dump you.

In an interview from 2024, McConaughey’s co-star, Kate Hudson, revealed she was open to a sequel, saying on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, “All that matters would be the script and if Matthew and I would be into the script. I think we’re both totally open but it’s just never happened.”

Watch Matthew McConaughey’s interview in the video below.

Gayle Rankin (House of the Dragon) has wrapped a lead role in Ashley Wright, an indie also starring Evelyn Grace Kite (Elijah), Weapons Oscar winner Amy Madigan, Golden Globe winner Ed Harris (Westworld), Steven Ogg (The Walking Dead), Michole Brianna White (BMF), and Lily Harris.

Directed by Logan & Noah Miller (Touching Home), Ashley Wright stars Rankin as a homeless mother of two kids trying to scrape out a sense of dignity in a world that is working against her.

Kite plays Ashley’s nine-year-old daughter Peanut, with Madigan as Ashley’s court-appointed attorney, Donna Terry, who advocates for her to retain custody of her children. Ed Harris plays Judge Allen, a sympathetic judge presiding over Ashley’s child custody hearing, while Lily Harris plays Peanut’s court-appointed attorney, Jessica Steiner. This marks the first time the Harris family has appeared together in a feature film.

Recently wrapping production in Los Angeles, Ashley Wright is a very personal project for the Miller brothers, who told us, “The main character is a synthesis of our experience: our father’s twenty years of homelessness and our mother’s struggle with mental illness.”

The friendship and filmmaking collaboration between Harris, Madigan and the Miller Bros. began with a Hail Mary approach in a San Francisco alley on their first film Touching Home — they charmed Harris, but it was the script that sealed his participation in the movie. With Ashley Wright, again the material spoke strongly to Harris and Madigan.

“Great script, great directors, great cast,” Ed Harris said. “Amy, our daughter Lily, and I had a great time working on it. The Miller Brothers are the real deal.”’

The film’s lead, Rankin, commented: “I hadn’t encountered a challenge like Ashley Wright in my career before. She is the most fulfilling character I’ve ever had the opportunity to build. I feel wildly grateful to have been invited into Logan and Noah’s world — and privileged to tell this mother’s story, to reveal the truth of her bravery, and to illuminate the humanity in her that we could all stand to recognize more fully.”

Producers on Ashley Wright are Yolanda Bishop Martin, Katie Hausman, Kennedy Martin and Jackson Beall. Executive producers are David & Lucie Brown and JC Krause.

Most recently seen on House of the Dragon as the enigmatic healer Alys, Rankin is otherwise known for her work in projects like GLOW, The Greatest Showman and The Meyerowitz Stories. She is repped by B-Side Management, UTA, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.

Following her Oscar win for Zach Cregger’s Weapons, Madigan has set a slate including Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot, the Apple thriller Sponsor, and the Netflix series All the Sinners Bleed. She is repped by Paradigm and Anonymous Content.

Most recently seen starring in Paramount+’s Dutton Ranch and Apple TV’s comedy The Dink, opposite Jake Johnson, Ed Harris is repped by CAA and Ziffren Brittenham.

Brothers Logan & Noah Miller previously collaborated with Ed Harris on the indies Touching Home and Sweetwater. Additional credits for the duo as writers include White Boy Rick and G20. They are repped by CAA, Canopy Media Partners, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.

Kite is repped by Osbrink, East Coast Talent Agency, and Brave Artists Management; Ogg by Buchwald, The Way, and Ethos Entertainment; White by SMS Talent and Silver J Management; and Lily Harris by KTM Artist Group.