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Entertainment - Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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Entertainment headlines for Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Entertainment headlines for 2026-03-25 focused on 3 major developments: 1) Rep. Joyce Beatty Seeks Court Order To Take Donald Trump’s Name Off The Kennedy Center, Halt Planned Closure (Deadline) 2) ‘Hamilton’ Actor Andrew Chappelle Makes Directorial Debut With Queer Erotic Short Starring Tony Nominee James Cusati-Moyer (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety) 3) Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80 (NYT Arts) Across these stories, coverage emphasized high-impact updates, policy shifts, and events with broad audience relevance. Together they provide a representative view of the day in entertainment news before diving into each full report.
Why it matters: This snapshot shows where entertainment attention concentrated on 2026-03-25, highlighting the themes, entities, and geographies that dominated publisher coverage. Because ranking blends freshness, engagement, and source diversity, it helps separate signal from noise. Use it as a quick daily briefing and then open the top stories for fuller context.
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Rep. Joyce Beatty Seeks Court Order To Take Donald Trump’s Name Off The Kennedy Center, Halt Planned Closure
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‘Hamilton’ Actor Andrew Chappelle Makes Directorial Debut With Queer Erotic Short Starring Tony Nominee James Cusati-Moyer (EXCLUSIVE)
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Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80
Sources: #3 NYT Arts
Top 10 Stories
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#1 Score 80Rep. Joyce Beatty Seeks Court Order To Take Donald Trump’s Name Off The Kennedy Center, Halt Planned ClosureAn Ohio congresswoman is asking a judge to issue an order to take Donald Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center, contending that the board of the arts institution violated the law in that only Congress can make such a change. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) also is asking the court to block the shutdown of the […]
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#2 Score 79‘Hamilton’ Actor Andrew Chappelle Makes Directorial Debut With Queer Erotic Short Starring Tony Nominee James Cusati-Moyer (EXCLUSIVE)“Hamilton” actor Andrew Chappelle will make his directorial debut with “I’m Gonna Kill You,” a queer erotic short starring Tony nominee James Cusati-Moyer. The cast also includes Phillipa Soo (“Hamilton”), Johnny Sibilly (“Hacks”), Michael Graceffa (“Fantasmas,” “Death Becomes Her”), Angus O’Brien (“Boots”), Brandon Black (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) and Sara Lindsey (“American Rust”). Chappelle […]
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#3 Score 75Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.
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#4 Score 71Kevin Spacey’s Contested Exit From ‘House Of Cards’ Blows Up On MRC In $100M Insurance TrialMedia Rights Capital’s loss in an pricey insurance dispute over the demise of Netflix’s House of Cards ultimately was a reversal of fortune and shifting alliances right out of Frank Underwood’s playbook. Swinging from fighting Kevin Spacey in court, the production company founded by Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu turned its focus a few years […]
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#5 Score 71FKA Twigs Sues Shia LaBeouf Over NDA from 2020 Sexual Battery SettlementTahliah Barnett, better known as FKA twigs, is suing Shia LaBeouf over an “unlawful” NDA included in the settlement that resulted from the Grammy winner’s 2020 sexual battery lawsuit against the “Transformers” star. In the lawsuit, obtained by Variety, lawyers for Barnett state that after the 2020 case, LaBeouf “extracted a settlement” that contained “unlawful” […]
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#6 Score 68Jury Awards Chance the Rapper $35 in Legal Fight With Former ManagerThe former manager, Pat Corcoran, sued in 2020, seeking $3.8 million in unpaid royalties. Chance countersued for $1 million. The legal battle ended last week in what amounted to a draw.
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#7 Score 63Suzuki Ryohei, Morita Misato to Return for Netflix’s ‘City Hunter 2’Netflix has set “City Hunter 2,” a sequel to its 2024 live-action hit “City Hunter,” with a global premiere set for 2027. Suzuki Ryohei returns as protagonist Ryo Saeba, with Morita Misato reprising her role as partner Kaori Makimura. Kimura Fumino joins the cast as sharp-tongued detective Saeko Nogami. Shiraki Keiichiro directs from a screenplay […]
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#8 Score 63‘Don’t Get High’ Comedy Pilot Not Going Forward At HuluEXCLUSIVE: Hulu has opted not to proceed with its comedy pilot Don’t Get High starring Tony Hale, from Megan Ganz and 20th Television. Don’t Get High was one of several YA pilots Hulu had ordered over the past year and a half as the streamer is looking to beef up its offerings in the arena. Hulu […]
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#9 Score 61‘Project Hail Mary’ Passing $100M U.S. Today, Will Lord Over Box Office In Second Frame With $45M Despite ‘They Will Kill You’s Attempted Slay – PreviewRolling spring breaks remain in effect this weekend, but the feature that’s reaping the benefit of that is Amazon MGM Studios’ second weekend of Project Hail Mary, which is eyeing a hold similar to another March release, 2024’s Dune: Part Two (-44%) at $45M. Directed and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the heartfelt […]
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#10 Score 60MrBeast’s Beast Industries Hires Hulu and Riot Games Alum Guade Lydia Paez as Communications ChiefGaude Lydia Paez, a PR veteran of Hulu, Riot Games and Fox Broadcasting, has joined Beast Industries, the company founded by YouTube star and entrepreneur Jimmy Donaldson, as chief communications officer. Paez was most recently SVP of global communications and corporate affairs at Riot Games, the game developer and publisher behind “League of Legends.” She […]