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Entertainment - Monday, May 18, 2026
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Entertainment headlines for Monday, May 18, 2026
Entertainment headlines for 2026-05-18 focused on 3 major developments: 1) ‘Full Phil’ Review: With Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart Locked in a Father-Daughter Hatefest, Will Quentin Dupieux’s Latest Bizarro-World Lark Be His Crossover Movie? (Variety) 2) Pollock and Brancusi Join the $100 Million Club at Auction (NYT Arts) 3) Josh Gad Signs With WME (Deadline) 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 2026-05-18, 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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‘Full Phil’ Review: With Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart Locked in a Father-Daughter Hatefest, Will Quentin Dupieux’s Latest Bizarro-World Lark Be His Crossover Movie?
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Pollock and Brancusi Join the $100 Million Club at Auction
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Josh Gad Signs With WME
Sources: #3 Deadline
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#1 Score 78‘Full Phil’ Review: With Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart Locked in a Father-Daughter Hatefest, Will Quentin Dupieux’s Latest Bizarro-World Lark Be His Crossover Movie?"Full Phil," brash and throttling as it is, is an overly italicized screw-loose satire that some will want to see, because in its halfway funny, halfway off-putting extreme way it dares to color so far outside the lines.
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#2 Score 78Pollock and Brancusi Join the $100 Million Club at AuctionA “drip” painting by the Abstract Expressionist sold for $181.2 million with fees, while a bronze head by the Romanian sculptor brought in $107.6 million at Christie’s, both from the S.I. Newhouse collection.
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#3 Score 77Josh Gad Signs With WMEEXCLUSIVE: WME has signed actor, comedian, producer, and writer Josh Gad for representation in all areas. Perhaps most widely known as the voice of Olaf in Disney’s blockbuster Frozen franchise, Gad has appeared in more than two dozen film and television projects, both live-action and animated, over the last two decades and change. On stage, Gad originated the […]
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#4 Score 70Stephen Colbert to Host Wrap Party Following Final ‘Late Show’ Taping With ‘Fired and Festive’ Dress Code (EXCLUSIVE)Stephen Colbert’s time with “The Late Show” won’t end when the final episode tapes at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City on Thursday. Sources tell me that he’s hosting an after-party following the taping at a nearby event space. The invitation is topped with the show’s red, white and blue logo tweaked to […]
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#5 Score 69Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Heats Up Cannes With 12-Minute Standing OvationMonday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after Fjord. Those are the longest plaudits of the festival, though Refn […]
- #6 Score 67Felicity Lott, Elegant Soprano in Opera and Song, Dies at 79
Tall and self-possessed, with an air of wit and sophistication, she was superb in works by Mozart and Strauss, and was also a wide-ranging recitalist.
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#7 Score 63‘Game Changer’ Host Sam Reich on What Got Cut From Season 8 Premiere’s Censor-Heavy Episode, Including Jeremy Culhane’s ‘SNL’ JokeSPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the Season 8 premiere of Dropout’s “Game Changer,” titled “Don’t Wake Standards & Practices.” The eighth season premiere of Dropout’s ever-evolving game show “Game Changer” wasn’t about whether you won or lost (mostly), but how you played the censorship game. Featuring Dropout regulars Ally Beardsley, Lou Wilson and Jeremy […]
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#8 Score 62‘The Rookie’ Season 8 Finale Sets New Streaming Record, Hits Demo Season High & Tops Season 7 Closer With 9.25M Live+7 Multiplatform ViewersABC’s The Rookie continues to defy its age, posting a year-to-year viewership bump with its Season 8 finale. The action-packed May 4 closer, which delivered an epic Chenford proposal years in the making followed by a shocking twist, delivered 9.25 million total viewers in Nielsen National Live+7 Day Big Data Plus Panel program ratings across […]
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#9 Score 60Shirtless Charles Melton, Brutal Murders and Daddy Issues: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Slays Cannes Crowd With 7-Minute OvationNicolas Winding Refn returned to Cannes with “Her Private Hell” and continued his festival hot streak of dividing audiences. The provocateur’s latest feature is headlined by “Yellowjackets” and “Companion” star Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, the “Riverdale” actor who redefined his career at Cannes when Todd Haynes’ “May December” premiered in 2023. The late-night screening […]
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#10 Score 59Inside the Met Opera: Does Peter Gelb Have ‘the Most Difficult Job on Earth’?Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, said he is not going anywhere as he struggles with financial crises and opera’s place in a changing arts landscape.