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Entertainment - Thursday, May 28, 2026
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Entertainment headlines for Thursday, May 28, 2026
Entertainment headlines for 2026-05-28 focused on 3 major developments: 1) Morris Day, Young MC & The Commodores Say They Won’t Perform At Trump-Backed Freedom 250 State Fair Concert Series (Deadline) 2) LISTEN: ‘The U.S. Against the World’ Director-Producer Rand Getlin Documents the Road to the World Cup: ‘It’s a Coming of Age Story’ (Variety) 3) Curry Barker Teases Next Film ‘Anything But Ghosts’ Exists In Same Universe As ‘Obsession’ (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 2026-05-28, 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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Morris Day, Young MC & The Commodores Say They Won’t Perform At Trump-Backed Freedom 250 State Fair Concert Series
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LISTEN: ‘The U.S. Against the World’ Director-Producer Rand Getlin Documents the Road to the World Cup: ‘It’s a Coming of Age Story’
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Curry Barker Teases Next Film ‘Anything But Ghosts’ Exists In Same Universe As ‘Obsession’
Sources: #3 Deadline
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#1 Score 80Morris Day, Young MC & The Commodores Say They Won’t Perform At Trump-Backed Freedom 250 State Fair Concert SeriesAfter Freedom 250 announced a lineup of performers for the Great American State Fair this week, some are already pulling out of the event. Morris Day, Young MC and The Commodores have said that they will not perform, even though they were on the roster of artists announced for the June 25-July 10 event on […]
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#2 Score 79LISTEN: ‘The U.S. Against the World’ Director-Producer Rand Getlin Documents the Road to the World Cup: ‘It’s a Coming of Age Story’On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Rand Getlin, director-executive producer of the HBO documentary “U.S. Against the World: Four Years With the Men’s National Soccer Team,” discusses the road to the World Cup and the rising popularity of men’s and women’s soccer in America. Getlin spent more than four years documenting the road to the […]
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#3 Score 73Curry Barker Teases Next Film ‘Anything But Ghosts’ Exists In Same Universe As ‘Obsession’SPOILERS: This post contains details about the final scene of Obsession With the success of his directorial breakout in Focus Features and Universal’s Obsession, Curry Barker is teasing his horror followup. The writer/director recently revealed that his next film Anything But Ghosts exists in the same universe as Obsession, noting a direct reference to the […]
- #4 Score 72‘The Breadwinner’ Review: Nate Bargatze, Man of the House
The comedian makes a big swing with this movie about a stay-at-home dad, and gets a big assist from three funny kids.
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#5 Score 70‘The White Lotus’ Recreates Dramatic Cannes Closing Night With Laura Dern, Steve Coogan, Ari Graynor and Max GreenfieldAfter wrapping its Saint-Tropez leg at the posh Chateau de la Messardiere, the production of Mike White’s hit anthology series “The White Lotus” Season 4 has moved to Cannes, where it has taken over the Palais des Festivals for what appears to be some of the season’s most pivotal scenes. The production has been shooting […]
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#6 Score 65Most Senior Corporate Execs Depart Tegna As Legal Fight Over Nexstar Merger ContinuesMost of the senior corporate management team at local TV giant Tegna has left the company as the legal battle over its merger with rival Nexstar continues. One of the leadership moves – Fox stations vet Patrick Paolini’s start on Monday as CEO, succeeding Mike Steib – was reported earlier this week by Deadline. Other […]
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#7 Score 64Jane Austen Snubbed This Character. ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ Loves Her.As the star of “The Other Bennet Sister,” this actress is redeeming a “Pride and Prejudice” character Austen cast as a tedious prig.
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#8 Score 63‘Deli Boys’ Stars Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh Break Down Season 2: Cocaine, Ping Pong, and Viral MugshotsSPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Deli Boys” Season 2, which premiered May 28 on Hulu with all six episodes. Hulu’s crime comedy “Deli Boys” ramps things up in its second season, as Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj Dar (Saagar Shaikh) try to run their late father’s cocaine empire with the help of Lucky […]
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#9 Score 62‘The Boys’ Star Erin Moriarty Drops Out Of Fan Expo Denver: “I Am Gutted”As The Boys fans bid farewell to the Prime Video series after its finale, star Erin Moriarty has had to drop out of an upcoming fan convention. On Thursday, the actress shared her regrets as she cancelled her appearance at this weekend’s Fan Expo Denver, noting only that it “was absolutely necessary” to miss the […]
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#10 Score 60Cecilia Vega, Fired From ‘60 Minutes,’ Says She Fears ‘For The Future of the Legendary Broadcast’Cecilia Vega, one of the “60 Minutes” correspondents ousted in Thursday’s reorganization of the CBS News magazine, says she’s worried about the future of the program and where it may be headed under the management installed by parent company Paramount Skydance. “I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleagues at ’60 Minutes’ and the stories […]