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A Chance-Kanye collaboration, Infinity Mirror Room popping up in Chicago, and more conversation starters for your weekend

Quick! Think of something interesting to say at dinner Friday night. If nothing’s coming to you, here are your conversation starters for the weekend.

‘Indiana Jones’ and the Development Hell Sequel

It’s been 10 years since the polarizing, Razzie-winning update to the “Indiana Jones” series, “The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” hit theaters. If that feels like a long time, brace yourself: Variety reports the fifth installment of the saga will miss its July 2020 release date, stuck in the throes of development due to issues with the script.

Filming for the yet-to-be-titled project, which has already been pushed back once from its original 2019 release, was set to begin in 2019 and could be delayed by up to a year. Director Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford are reportedly still enthusiastic about updating the franchise —but with Spielberg helming a host of other projects (like a remake of “West Side Story,” for instance), a new timeline looks murky at best.

Infinity Mirror Room coming to Chicago

For the first time ever, Chicago will be host to one of acclaimed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms via a pop-up exhibition headed to the city this summer. Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room series, made famous at art museum the Broad in L.A., features a variety of mirrored rooms outfitted with lights and other shiny baubles — Chicago’s room, titled “Let’s Survive Forever,” is filled with silver spheres, creating a phantasmagorical (and sure, Instagram-friendly) effect. The pop-up, hosted by the new Wndr Museum, will go on display in an undisclosed location in August, according to Time Out Chicago.

Not the bees!

A study released last week by the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B found that bumblebees in London fare better than their counterparts in rural England. Despite the bustle of people and relative dearth of nature, the pollinators — which are vital to a healthy ecosystem and under threat of pollution and disease — produced more reproductive offspring and workers in the city habitat. “Given the choice of two unnatural situations, they’re actually able to exploit that city environment,” Ash Samuelson, a lead author of the study, told The New York Times.

Chance announces Kanye collaboration

Chance the Rapper plans to release a seven-track album with Kanye West, he announced in an interview on “Open Late with Peter Rosenberg” for Complex. The duo will begin work on the project soon, but no firm release date has been set. In the meantime, you can hold out for the rapper’s full-length collaborative album with Childish Gambino, which is in production with about six songs already completed.

Another one bytes the dust

Millennials, the apex predators of outdated technologies and trends, have struck again. Verizon announced last week that it will shutter its flagging, youth-targeted mobile video and streaming app Go90 — a platform so disappointing that you, perhaps a cord-cutting millennial yourself, may have never even heard of it. The app, a $200 million investment from Verizon, will shut down at the end of the month.

Emma Krupp is a RedEye freelancer.