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The music industry is navigating a complicated moment heading into the final stretch of the year. Spotify and its peers are tightening budgets, building cash reserves, and leaning hard into their most loyal subscribers as inflation, shaky consumer confidence, and growing uncertainty around artificial intelligence weigh on quarterly earnings across the board.
Shifting from music to the multiverse, Maya Hawke has signed on to star in a film adaptation of Magic: The Gathering, the trading card game that has built a devoted global following over three decades. Details on her character and the plot remain under wraps, but the game's sprawling fantasy multiverse gives filmmakers an enormous canvas to work with.
And in casting news that has people talking, Cynthia Erivo is set to play Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, in an upcoming Snoop Dogg biopic directed by Craig Brewer. The film is expected to reach theaters in August of two thousand twenty seven, and Erivo's involvement signals serious dramatic ambition for a project that already carries considerable cultural weight.
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