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title: This Week's Handful of Must-See Headlines
description: "So much news, so little time. Take five with our #FridayFive. Don't miss the top headlines from May 25-29."
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# [This Week's Handful of Must-See Headlines](https://blog.castandcrew.com/weekof_may25)

 Written by [Cast&Crew](https://blog.castandcrew.com/author/castcrew) | 05/29/2026

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**Banking**

**Independent Film Financing Grows More Complex**   
Western Alliance Bank’s Melanie Krinsky says independent film financing is increasingly driven by geography, tax incentives, and pre-sales rather than creative merit, as gap financing continues to disappear and producers are forced to secure talent attachments and equity earlier in the process.

******Film**

**Lionsgate Brings Film Library to Movies Anywhere**   
Lionsgate will begin adding its film library to Movies Anywhere next month, launching with 225 titles including *The Hunger Games*, *John Wick*, and *La La Land*, with roughly 100 more films set to roll out each month through early 2027.

******Television**

**‘Stranger Things’ Leads Multiplatform TV Rankings**   
*Stranger Things* topped the 2025 to 2026 TV season with 32.9 million multiplatform viewers, followed by Netflix’s *His & Hers* and CBS’s *Marshals*, while Netflix claimed six of the top ten spots on Nielsen’s 35-day multiplatform rankings.

**International**

**Germany Expands Production Incentives**   
Germany is nearly doubling its film and TV production incentive budget from €133m to €250m, while advancing legislation that would require streamers to invest at least 8% of revenue into German and European productions, though industry groups say the proposal does not go far enough and streamers continue to oppose the mandate.

**Box Office**

**Micro-Budget Horror ‘Obsession’ Delivers Record Surge**   
Gen Z filmmaker Curry Barker’s $750,000 horror film *Obsession* has grossed over $68m domestically in under two weeks, posting a record-breaking 39.4% second-weekend increase, the largest such spike in modern box office history outside the holiday period.

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