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The entertainment industry is exploring new formats like microdramas, with Kenan Thompson’s upcoming project set to debut. Meanwhile, Sam Smith releases a new album 'Hazel Eyes,' while Magenta Light Studios secures distribution rights for the Brazilian crime drama ‘The King of the Internet.’ Additionally, actor Edward Bluemel takes on the role of Hercule Poirot in an upcoming BBC series.
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Variety
Kenan Thompson’s next project leans deep into camp. He’s set to star as a man who’s kidnapped at a Toys R Us and locked in the store’s basement. When he realizes his handcuffs are actually made of fuzz, he escapes and returns home. Back to safety, he discovers that his wife has already moved on [
2026-08-21 15:00 UTC
Variety
It’s sometimes easy to forget what a massively successful artist Sam Smith is: five Grammys, an estimated 65 million albums sold and nearly 60 billion streams, a James Bond theme and multiple No. 1 singles all over the globe across a dozen-year career. But after three multiplatinum albums that were
2026-08-21 15:00 UTC
Variety
Magenta Light Studios has acquired the U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to “The King of the Internet” (“O Rei da Internet”), the acclaimed Brazilian crime drama from filmmaker Fabrício Bittar. Based on the true story of Daniel Nascimento, a teenage hacker who became one
2026-08-21 15:00 UTC
Variety
Edward Bluemel has suited up as famed Agatha Christie detective Hercule Poirot in a first look at the upcoming BBC and BritBox series “Hercule.” The six-part show, which is shooting now in Liverpool, is an “intimate study of Hercule Poirot the man and an epic portrait of Britain be
2026-08-21 15:00 UTC