
05/16/2025
Happy Friday! It's time for this week's edition of , where we tell you 5 things this happened this week in pop culture & entertainment news to cap off your week. 🍒
✨ 2025 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL OPENS | The 2025 Cannes Film Festival has officially kicked off in France, with star-studded premieres and red carpet photo ops. Some of the most exciting so far: Kristen Stewart’s debut feature The Chronology of Water, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Ari Aster’s Eddington, and more.
🩷 LENA DUNHAM'S NEW NETFLIX SERIES 'TOO MUCH' | Netflix dropped a first look at Lena Dunham’s new series for the streaming platform, a comedy called Too Much. The show, which stars Meg Stalter and Will Sharpe, centers on Jessica (Meg Stalter) a New York workaholic in her mid-30s, reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows, who decides to move to London and finds an unusual connection with Felix (Sharpe). Lena Dunham writers, directs and executive-produces.
💬 MICHAEL J. FOX IN 'SHRINKING' SEASON 3 | Five-time Emmy winner Michael J. Fox is set to return to acting with a role in season three of Apple TV+’s Shrinking. Details about the role have been kept under wraps, but it will likely have to do with Harrison Ford’s character Paul Rhoades, who has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis Fox also shares.
🎯 SYDNEY SWEENEY & PAUL WALTER HAUSER LEAD 'AMERICANA' | Lionsgate unveiled the trailer for the new modern-day Western crime movie Americana, which follows a gallery of dynamic characters as they clash over the possession of a rare Native American artifact. The film, directed by Tony Tost, originally premiered at SXSW in 2023. Americana also stars Halsey, Simon Rex, Eric Dane and Zahn McClarnon, and hits theaters August 22.
📺 MAX ANNOUNCES REBRAND BACK TO HBO MAX | Good news for those of us who never stopped calling it HBO Max… Warner Bros. Discovery announced this week that the streamer Max will be rebranding back to its original name of HBO Max. This decision comes just over two years after the name change.