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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Disney Dreamlight Valley held its first-ever showcase presentation Wednesday ahead of the Gameloft game’s move out of its year-long “early access” phase into a global launch, unveiling plans for the life-simulation through late 2024 in two roadmaps: one for paid expansion content and one for free upgrades included with the cost of the base game. The streamed event came on the heels of last week’s reveal that Disney had scrapped plans to make the game free-to-play once it left its beta testing and instead set pricing tiers and an additional cost for the game’s first expansion, “A Rift in Time.” A number of updates about the future of Disney Dreamlight Valley were given, including the game’s upcoming launch on Apple’s subscription gaming platform Apple Arcade.

Valerie Wu Intern If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “Dance the Night Away” to the “Barbie” movie soundtrack on vinyl.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media Analyst Jewish streaming service ChaiFlicks has greenlit its first original series, a half-hour unscripted showcase for kosher-food cuisine around the U.S. Premiering Nov. 16, “Schmoozing and Cruising” touches down everywhere from Brooklyn to Los Angeles for a mouthful of BBQ, pizza and donuts across six tasty episodes.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Spotify has announced its 2023 Capsule Collection, featuring exclusive merchandise from Peso Pluma, Daft Punk, Rosalía, Tyler, the Creator and Tems. Each week, a different artist will release a new merch package.

Warren Littlefield Matthew Perry will most often be remembered for his wit and charm, but there was so much more to him. The pilot script of “Friends” had a lot of heat at the agencies and young actors both familiar and fresh were vying for the roles. There was interest and momentum for Craig Bierko to play the role of Chandler Bing, and until Craig said he wasn’t interested, Matthew stayed in the background because he didn’t want to compete with his friend.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Paris-based company 2425 Films, recently acquired by Mediawan, is working with a pool of rising filmmakers on timely movies, including Charly Delwart’s “1,5 degré,” Ilan Duran Cohen’s “Le coup d’apres” and Thomas Kruithof’s “Les Braises.” 2425 Films, founded by Thibault Gast and Matthias Weber, has been thriving with smart, high-concept commercial movies, such as Yann Gozlan’s “La boite noire” and “An Ideal Man,” as well as the thriller “Burn Out.” The company also presented Gozlan’s latest film, “Visions,” a thriller starring Diane Kruger (co-produced by Eagle Team Entetainment) at this year’s Angouleme Film Festival. Duran Cohen’s “Le coup d’apres” is a film set in the world of French politics, with a duo of French stars, Marina Fois and Laurent Laffite, who previously co-starred in “Papa ou Maman,” a French hit comedy franchise.

Breast cancer accounts for 12.5% of all new annual cancer cases worldwide, making it the most common cancer in the world.

Earlier this month marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. On October 6, 1998, Shepard was beaten, tortured and left to die, bound to a fence in a remote Wyoming field, not far from the small town of Laramie. He was found and taken to a hospital where he died from his wounds six days later.

ad-supported tier had reached 15 million active users per month, a year after the streaming giant launched the cheaper plan to revive subscriber growth and revenue following a slowdown.The company had five million monthly ad-tier users in May and has been hiking prices on its ad-free options in an effort to nudge more subscribers to the other tier, where commercials help bring in more revenue per user.Netflix increased subscription prices for some streaming plans in the United States, Britain, and France last month, after its third-quarter subscriber additions of 9 million shattered Wall Street expectations of 6 million.After resisting commercials for years, Netflix had a change of heart in April 2022 after it lost subscribers in the first quarter of the year.A month after Netflix’s ad-plan launch last year, rival Disney+ also rolled out its ad version in an attempt to push its streaming business into profitability.Streaming services such as HBO Max, Paramount+ and Peacock also offer ad-supported versions of their services, emulating the business model that has long supported the television business.Amazon’s Prime Video will next year join its streaming rivals in rolling out ads and introducing a higher-priced ad-free tier.Netflix said during its third-quarter results that the adoption of its ads plan, which costs $6.99 per month in the US, continued to grow with membership up almost 70% sequentially.

Tyler Christopher is dead. The actor who is best known for his roles on soap operas such as “General Hospital” and “Days of Our Lives” was found dead inside his home, per TMZ. The soap world is devastated by the tragic passing.

a new Instagram post they both shared on Wednesday, the two former “GMA3: What You Need to Know” anchors smiled together, with their arms around each other. “How’s this for instagram official? #silentnomore,” they wrote in the caption. Robach, 50, and Holmes, 46, then announced that they are teaming up for the podcast, “Amy & T.J.,” launching with iHeartRadio on Dec.

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Tyler Christopher’s death continues to be mourned by his loved ones — including ex-fianceé, Vanessa Marcil. The actress paid tribute to the fellow soap actor after he died Tuesday at 50.Marcil — who also appeared on “GH” over the years — shared multiple throwback photos of Christopher on her Instagram Stories. “Ugh, another loss! Waaaay too young,” she captioned one snapshot.“Rest in peace bubs,” she wrote on one photo of the two hugging.

Mean Girls has been , honored, , , and , who would have guessed that the best one would come from a two-minute Walmart commercial? And yet, here we are. From the moment Lindsay Lohan's voiceover began, Millennial hearts everywhere were set aflame.Reuniting OG mean girls Lohan, Lacey Chabert, and Amanda Seyfried as their iconic characters, the ad catches up with Cady Heron, Gretchen Wieners, and Karen Smith today; along with a few additional choice cameos (Kevin G!).

This year, Marks and Spencer are celebrating the honest truth of Christmas in a campaign inspired by the traditions many consumers love, and others hate. Christmas can be a challenge striking the balance between celebrating the things we love about the holidays, and taking on some things we might not enjoy as much but feel obliged to do anyway.To bring this to life, M&S invites viewers to embrace only the things they love about Christmas (and skip those they don’t).The advert takes place across four different homes, which feature a popular British household name including actress Hannah Waddingham, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Zawe Ashton and Tan France.

Josie Gibson was jubilant as she celebrated a massive achievement in her new fitness routine. The 38-year-old This Morning star has been looking better than ever lately, and it seems that that is, in part, down to the fact that she's enlisted a personal trainer to help her achieve her fitness goals.

BBC EastEnders star Shona McGarty, who played Whitney Dean, has landed her first role since leaving the soap. She'll be starring alongside another EastEnders legend in a pantomime production of Beauty and the Beast. Shona confirmed earlier this year that she was leaving EastEnders to try something new.

Big Brother viewers have been left ‘outraged’ after it emerged that another housemate has starred on TV before. Eagle-eyed fans noticed that Tom previously appeared on a different ITV reality show - Kavos Weekender.The 21 year old butcher, from Somerset, described himself as ‘loud and chatty’ before entering the Big Brother house this year.

Actor Tyler Christopher has died aged 50 after suffering a "cardiac event" at his apartment in San Diego. Tyler, who was best known for his roles as Nikolas Cassadine and Connor Bishop on the ABC soap opera General Hospital, died on 31 October, according to his co-star Maurice Benard. Maurice, 60, took to Instagram to share the sad news on Tuesday, branding dad-of-two Tyler a "truly talented individual" as he paid tribute to his friend.

It’s been a difficult year for Marvel Studios in 2023, and a “Marvel In Crisis” is about to take hold (you just watch). You had the big underwhelming box-office gross on “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania,” and “Secret Invasion” savaged by critics (it’s the lowest-rated Rotten Tomatoes Marvel property).

Season one of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” came out of nowhere and became a pop culture phenomenon fast in the summer of 2016. By this point, Netflix had already had a big hit with 2013’s “House Of Cards,” which earned the company its first Emmy nominations.