Bulgaria Wins Eurovision for the First Time Ever — With an Electronic Folk Anthem Nobody Saw Coming

Kylie Minogue Accidentally Confirmed Her Own 40th Anniversary Tour Live On Record: 'I'm Probably Not Meant to Say This, But Yes'

The 57-year-old pop icon let it slip in an interview with The Sunday Times' Style magazine, days before the May 20 premiere of her three-part Netflix documentary series KYLIE. Minogue launched her career in 1987 as a teenager still starring on Australian soap Neighbours, covering "The Loco-Motion" for a No. 1 hit in Australia. The 40th anniversary tour would take place in 2027.

The Netflix documentary — directed by Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Michael Harte, whose credits include BECKHAM, WHAM! and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie — features Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan, Nick Cave, and Pete Waterman, and draws on personal archives, home movies, and new interviews. It covers Minogue's 2005 breast cancer diagnosis and the personal loss and public scrutiny she's faced across five decades. She said she felt "a knot of excitement and nerves" about it dropping. She also revealed the emotional toll of writing an original song for the documentary's closing sequence: "I worked so hard on it, it was like rolling a rock up a hill."

The tour confirmation was an accident. The Netflix doc was deliberate. Either way, Kylie is having a moment — and she's not done.

Gobble's Take: She accidentally confirmed a world tour in a magazine interview — the rest of us can't even accidentally confirm our dinner plans.

Source: Billboard

Bulgaria Wins Eurovision for the First Time Ever — With an Electronic Folk Anthem Nobody Saw Coming

At Vienna's Wiener Stadthalle on Saturday night, pop star Dara performed "Bangaranga" — a high-energy electronic anthem built on Bulgarian folk influences — and walked away with Bulgaria's first-ever Eurovision Song Contest victory. Israel finished second, Romania third, and 24 other finalists went home empty-handed.

Results were determined by a combined vote from national juries and viewers across 35 participating countries. Meanwhile, Australia's Delta Goodrem delivered one of the night's most celebrated non-winning performances, finishing fourth with her power ballad "Eclipse" — the country's strongest Eurovision result in several years. Her staging transformed the arena from a moonlit dreamscape into a radiant gold sunscape, and she wore a custom couture gown adorned with more than 7,000 Swarovski crystals. "Representing Australia on the Eurovision stage and being part of this incredible community has been unforgettable," Goodrem said.

Bulgaria had years of near misses and intermittent withdrawals from the contest. Turns out all it took was the right folk-electronic banger.

Gobble's Take: Bulgaria just ended a decades-long Eurovision drought with a song called "Bangaranga" — and honestly, that's the most Eurovision sentence ever written.

Source: Billboard

The Oscar Winner Behind 'The Big Short' Is Writing a Movie About Sesame Street Surviving Bombings, Assassinations, and a Military Coup

Charles Randolph — the screenwriter who won an Oscar for The Big Short — is adapting Natasha Lance Rogoff's memoir Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia for the screen. Riley Keough and Gina Gammell's production company Felix Culpa is co-producing alongside Emotion Pictures, the newly launched English-language banner from Vendôme Group, Pathé, and Merit France.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the moment seemed ideal to bring Sesame Street to children across the former Soviet bloc — with the Muppets positioned as ambassadors of hope and Western values. Sesame Workshop produced the Russian version, titled Ulitsa Sezam. But Rogoff's memoir chronicles the real story: launching the show amid bombings, political violence, assassinations, and a military takeover of the production office. Her team of artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and puppeteers also navigated cultural clashes over educational philosophy, comedy, and the creation of entirely new puppet characters.

The production office endured a military takeover — and somehow, the show went on. Your Monday morning is going to be fine.

Gobble's Take: If Sesame Street can survive a literal military takeover of its production office, maybe there's hope for every troubled film set in Hollywood.

Source: Variety

Formula One Sent Two Drivers to Cannes as F1 and Hollywood Converge

Within 48 hours of this year's Cannes Film Festival launch, Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc — once teammates at Ferrari, now gridmates following Sainz's move to Williams — appeared on the Palais carpet with their respective partners. They attended as global ambassadors for L'Oréal, and their presence reflects how F1 has solidified its place at the intersection of sport, entertainment, and popular culture.

Since Drive to Survive launched in 2018, F1's global fanbase has grown by over 68 percent. In 2025, 1.83 billion people watched the sport, up 6.8 percent from 2024, per Nielsen. Over 43 percent of fans are now under 35, and female representation has risen to 42 percent. At Aston Martin, the team is tallying 30 to 40 percent year-on-year growth. The Brad Pitt film F1: The Movie was described by the source as a $630 billion box office hit.

"The F1 river has truly burst its banks," said Aston Martin CMO Rob Bloom. "It's everywhere."

Gobble's Take: The source reports strong F1 viewership and fanbase growth, and describes F1: The Movie as a $630 billion box office hit — that figure is as stated in the source.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Ana de Armas and Sebastian Stan Are Starring in a Thriller About the International Hunt to Prosecute Augusto Pinochet

French producer Sylvie Pialat — a César Award winner — is at Cannes this year with one of the festival's most talked-about upcoming projects: Impunity, a geopolitical thriller directed by Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez and starring Ana de Armas and Sebastian Stan. The film is produced by Pialat's company Les Films du Worso alongside Gálvez.

Beyond Impunity, Pialat's Cannes slate also includes Black Glacier, an alpine revenge thriller from Argentine auteur Pablo Fendrik — originally developed as an Argentine production before economic and political turmoil in Argentina forced a pivot to France. The film is set to shoot next year in the French Alps and stars Samuel Kircher and Andranic Manet. Fendrik, who doesn't speak French, will direct in English and Spanish through translators. "At a certain point, France genuinely makes people dream," Pialat said, pointing to a growing wave of international filmmakers relocating projects there as financing tightens elsewhere.

Ana de Armas going from Bond girl to taking on a dictatorship is exactly the career arc we didn't know we needed.

Gobble's Take: Sebastian Stan went from the Bucky Barnes arm to Pinochet's political reckoning — and somehow that career trajectory tracks perfectly.

Source: Variety

Quick Hits

• BASSINTHEGRASS goes off in Darwin: Denzel Curry, Galantis, Peking Duk, The Teskey Brothers, and more than 20 acts performed at Darwin's Mindil Beach festival, drawing close to 12,000 attendees — with one in five being visitors to the Northern Territory. Billboard
• Cannes' indie film market is in crisis: Deals at the 2026 Cannes Marché are arriving at a fraction of their usual pace, with buyers no longer willing to pre-buy at the high end as the pay-one television window — once the financial backbone of independent film financing — has largely collapsed due to streaming platforms negotiating directly. Hollywood Reporter

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