Jordan Firstman twerked up the Cannes red carpet, then blindsided everyone with a genuinely sweet movie

Germany just turned filmmaking into a dare: handwritten scripts, no internet, crews of ten, and five films to prove the industry wrong

Tom Tykwer stood at the German Pavilion in Cannes on Saturday and said the quiet part out loud: "We are heading towards a world in which stories are already conceived as products before they have been experienced, filmed, or even felt. We want to take the opposite act." That's the spirit behind German Dogma 25 — a new local-language offshoot of the original Dogme 95 movement — and five heavy hitters have signed the manifesto.

The rules are the entire point. Scripts must be original and handwritten. At least half of each film must be free of dialogue. The internet is banned from the creative process entirely. No more than ten crew members can work behind the camera. Sets, props, and costumes must be reused or found. And every production must wrap within a year. Çatak put it simply: the restrictions let filmmakers embrace "the impulses of the unexpected, because not everything can or needs to be controlled."

What makes this more than an artsy stunt is who signed it. Tykwer is the director behind Run Lola Run and Babylon Berlin. Nora Fingscheidt made System Crasher and The Outrun. İlker Çatak's The Teacher's Lounge was one of the most talked-about German films in recent memory. Kurdwin Ayub (Mond) and Helene Hegemann (Axolotl Overkill) round out the five. The films will be produced by X Filme and Zentropa Germany, with TrustNordisk handling international sales. ZDF and Arte are planned as broadcasting partners. The announcement comes exactly one year after the original Danish Dogma 25 group unveiled their projects at Cannes — and just a week after Netflix signed a deal to release those Danish titles in the Nordics following their theatrical run.

If you're tired of movies that feel focus-grouped into a coma, five directors betting their next film on a notebook and a hard deadline might be the chaos that wakes the room up.

Gobble's Take: If these movies land, every "authentic filmmaker" with a mood board and a streaming deal is going to look like they were assembled in a lab.

Sources: Variety · Hollywood Reporter

Jordan Firstman twerked up the Cannes red carpet, then blindsided everyone with a genuinely sweet movie

Jordan Firstman's first Cannes premiere started exactly as expected: he twerked up the red-carpeted steps of the Debussy theater and announced from the stage that he was thrilled to be "in de bussy." Then Club Kid did something sneakier — it opened as a coked-up, bass-heavy sprint through the lewdest corners of New York's queer club scene and then pivoted into something tender enough to catch the audience completely off guard.

Firstman plays Peter, a Brooklyn party promoter who runs on chaos, casual sex, and bad decisions — until a 9-year-old boy drops into his life like an alien visitor from London, and everything shifts. The film is screening in Cannes' Un Certain Regard program and has been called a breakout crowdpleaser. The Variety review draws a line from Charlie Chaplin's The Kid through Mike Mills' C'mon C'mon — and notes that Firstman is "happy to follow the formula," which turns out to be the movie's sharpest trick: you come for the arch humor, you stay for the unabashed sweetness.

Firstman is not a stranger to skewering himself onscreen — he played a fictionalized, obnoxious version of himself in Sébastian Silva's 2023 film Rotting in the Sun. But Club Kid is a step beyond self-deprecation. There's a real movie here underneath the bit, and distributors, according to the review, will be lining up. The funniest people in the room have a habit of sneaking up on you with the thing that actually matters.

Gobble's Take: Firstman just proved the fastest way to surprise Cannes is to promise debauchery and deliver a hug.

Source: Variety

Kevin Jonas went shirtless at the gym and accidentally made the most romantic post of the week

Kevin Jonas is 38, has been married to Danielle for 16 years, and apparently now has abs that make Instagram comment sections short-circuit. On May 15, Danielle posted a clip to her Instagram Stories of Kevin doing an upper body workout, shirtless in black joggers and gray sneakers, set to his new single "Little Things." Her caption: "apparently so are the abs."

The timing is doing heavy lifting of its own. Kevin wrote "Little Things" specifically for Danielle — and kept it a secret until she heard it. "I was like, 'Babe, this one's about you' and I kept it a secret, but she was very happy," he told People. He also laid out what he's calling "three big years ahead": a milestone birthday for Danielle this year, one for him next year, and their 20th wedding anniversary in 2029. The couple shares two daughters, Alena, 12, and Valentina, 9, who apparently loved the track — including its NSFW line about "steaming up the shower," which Kevin noted they probably don't fully understand yet, adding: "I enjoyed that with my wife for sure."

The man posted a gym thirst trap, announced a love song written in secret, and dropped a family update in the same breath. That's not a celebrity post — that's a master class in making everyone else's relationship feel like it needs more effort.

Gobble's Take: Kevin Jonas just made the case that romance is 20% abs and 80% keeping a secret song in your back pocket until the moment is right.

Source: E! News

Jack Osbourne told all celebrities to shut up — and the internet responded by zooming in on his face

Jack Osbourne was on Capitol Hill with his mother Sharon on May 15 when a reporter asked if he considered himself political. His answer was not diplomatic. "You know what? I think celebrities just need to keep their mouth shut," he said. "Make entertainment, entertain the people, shut the f--- up." When pressed on celebrities who argue their platforms can raise awareness, he didn't soften: "Then be a politician, don't be an entertainer."

The Osbournes were in Washington because Republican congresswoman Victoria Spartz formally entered Ozzy Osbourne's biography into the Congressional Record — a recognition the family said would have been an honor to the 75-year-old Black Sabbath frontman. Jack and Sharon, 73, were there to mark the moment. The political commentary was supposed to be the story.

Instead, the internet fixated on a Mother's Day photo Jack had posted on May 11, posing with Sharon and his fiancée, Aree Gearhart. Fans flooded the comments asking if he was sick; others speculated about Ozempic. There is no confirmed medical explanation in the reporting, and Jack gave no indication the attention bothered him during his Capitol Hill appearance. What makes it all land with an extra layer of irony: Jack came to Washington to tell famous people to stay in their lane, and left as the trending topic anyway.

Gobble's Take: Jack tried to police the public conversation and instantly became the public conversation — celebrity karma works fast.

Source: r/PopCulture

Love on the Spectrum's Dani Bowman calls out The Rock and Euphoria for making a slur feel normal again

Dani Bowman, known from Netflix's Love on the Spectrum, is speaking out about something she says is genuinely painful: the r-slur showing up in mainstream pop culture again — specifically in Euphoria and at the Roast of Kevin Hart, where Dwayne Johnson reportedly used it.

"As someone on the autism spectrum, it's honestly painful to watch this language become socially acceptable again in pop culture," Bowman said, per Deadline. Her frustration taps into a broader conversation happening in fan spaces right now: that words the disability community spent years fighting to retire are quietly creeping back under the cover of "edgy comedy" and prestige TV.

The reaction online has been pointed. Viewers are noting that the normalization isn't happening in fringe corners of the internet — it's happening on HBO and at high-profile celebrity roasts, which makes it harder to wave off as a one-time slip. When a word lands as a punchline in a room full of cameras and a live audience, it sets a ceiling for what's considered acceptable. Bowman is drawing that line in public, which is exactly what people with platforms are supposed to do — even, apparently, when other celebrities think platforms should stay quiet.

Gobble's Take: "It's just a joke" has never once been a good enough answer for the people the joke is about.

Source: r/Fauxmoi

Quick Hits

• Netflix's Devil May Cry is already getting a Season 3: Reports say production is already in motion behind the scenes, before Season 2 has even officially dropped — the show pulled over 5 million viewers in its debut week and Netflix is apparently not waiting around. r/television
• Eurovision 2026 Grand Final is today and it's streaming on Peacock: The 70th annual contest — down to 25 countries competing for the glass microphone trophy — is live from Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, at 3 p.m. ET. Billboard
• Kristen Stewart is filming a vampire thriller described as "Eyes Wide Shut meets The Lost Boys": Flesh of the Gods, directed by Panos Cosmatos and based on a script by Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker, is currently shooting — and A24 already pre-bought the U.S. rights. Variety

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