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Jonathan Cohen The prospect of a new version of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” with vocals from Britney Spears has sent the music world into a tizzy for weeks, particularly since Spears has not released fresh music in six years amid the knockdown, drag-out battle over her conservatorship. Luckily, “Hold Me Closer,” produced by Andrew Watt and Cirkut and finally due out at midnight ET, is an unabashed dance-floor celebration of good vibes much in the vein of John’s surprise smash 2021 collaboration with Dua Lipa, “Cold Heart,” which was built on elements of his past hits such as “Rocket Man.” John first worked with former Grammy producer of the year Watt while making a guest appearance on the 2020 Watt-produced Ozzy Osbourne album “Ordinary Man,” which led to Watt producing John’s “Cold Heart”-featuring “The Lockdown Sessions” album last year. “The song is still in the 20s on the global top 50, and it has been over a year,” Watt (pictured above) tells Variety of “Cold Heart.” “It really resonated with people, because the world is so serious right now. It was a way to scream an Elton John song while you’re out at a nightclub and also feel Dua’s energy. Elton wanted to do a follow-up to that song. Why wouldn’t he? We thought we’d try something with ‘Tiny Dancer,’ so they sent me the original stems.”

L.A. French cinema lovers were deprived of their annual fall fix of Gallic film culture this year with the cancellation of the American French Film Festival due to the Hollywood strikes.

Gaumont and Egerie Productions have announced they are teaming with Prime Video on heartwarming French-language drama My Mother, God, And Sylvie Vartan (Ma Mère, Dieu, Et Sylvie Vartan), which is the platform’s first French-language feature destined for a theatrical release.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Prime Video and Gaumont (“Intouchables”) are teaming up on an uplifting mother-son drama tackling disability, directed by Ken Scott (“Starbuck”), and starring French actors Leïla Bekhti (“All Your Faces”) and Jonathan Cohen (“Sentinelle”). Scott penned and will be directing the film which is titled “Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan” and is based on Roland Perez’s novel by the same name. The project is the first theatrical film that Amazon Prime Video is co-financing as part of the French decree that kicked off in July 2021 and stems from the implementation of the European Commission’s legislation called Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS).

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Jessica Kiang Salvador Dalí is walking down a hotel corridor. A hotel corridor is being walked down by Salvador Dalí.

Todd Haynes’ biopic “I’m Not There” famously featured several actors in the role of Bob Dylan, each embodying the artist in one era of his varied musical career. The idea, of course, was to acknowledge Dylan’s shapeshifting nature as well as the fact that his work can mean different things to different people — some may find one actor’s interpretation more convincing and accurate than that of another.

Jonathan Cohen When Gabe Saporta aligned with Atlantic in 2007 via his band Cobra Starship’s deal with Fueled by Ramen/Decaydence, he’d already been through two other major-label systems and wasn’t overly optimistic things would be much different this time around. Much to his surprise, “Atlantic was unique in always letting us be our weird little selves,” helping the group score two multi-platinum top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 amid a third wave of emo and pop-punk upstarts such as labelmates Fall Out Boy and Paramore. As such, it’s fitting Saporta is again back in business with Atlantic, even though he’s long since shifted from his lead singer role in Cobra Starship to one behind the scenes in management and artist development with his company TAG Music. (Note: Saporta’s company is not to be confused with a 1990s indie-centric Atlantic imprint also called TAG — for The Atlantic Group — that featured such artists as Jawbox and Fountains of Wayne.)

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The blockbuster French cast of Amazon Prime Video’s third season of “LOL: Qui rit, qui sort” speaks volumes about the Japanese variety format’s tremendous popularity in France. The Amazon Original series, adapted from the format “LOL: Last One Laughing,” scored its biggest launch to date on Prime Video in France since bowing on March 10. The show is one of the streamer’s first unscripted originals in France and has been a major coup as a brand exercise that’s succeeded with limited resources — certainly in comparison to scripted comedy. Adaptations of “LOL” have also thrived in Italy and Germany where they have ranked as the most watched local titles on the service, respectively. Local versions are also available in Spain, Canada, Mexico and Australia (hosted by Rebel Wilson).

French director Quentin Dupieux has begun shooting his 12th feature film DAAAAAALI ! with a star ensemble French cast including Alain Chabat (Smoking Causes Coughing), Anaïs Demoustier (Alice And The Mayor), Pierre Niney (Frantz) and Gilles Lellouche (Little White Lies).

Jonathan Cohen Thanks to big syncs by the Weeknd, Motley Crue and yacht rock icon Christopher Cross, season four of Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” raised the bar in more ways than just its viewership, which propelled the show to No. 1 on Netflix’s English series chart for the two weeks following its New Years Eve release.

Jonathan Cohen Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and his new solo band The Earthlings will embark on their first tour in early 2022, beginning with Feb. 3-4 shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

Jonathan Cohen Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder will release his first solo album in more than a decade, “Earthling,” on Feb. 11, 2022 via his own Seattle Surf imprint through Republic.

Jonathan Cohen Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has unveiled a new song “Long Way,” the first single from his forthcoming solo album, “Earthling.” No release date has been announced for the album, which will come out on Vedder’s own Seattle Surf imprint through Republic.A lyric video is now online for the track, which sees Vedder collaborating for the first time with reigning Grammy producer of the year and Andrew Watt (Ozzy Osbourne, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone).

What led one safecracker into a city besieged by zombies? It’s an intriguing question that follows a character in Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead.” Along with the director, Netflix gives viewers more clues with a new film centered around Dieter. “Army of Thieves” offers glimpses into how the small-time criminal found his place on a very challenging global stage.

The first look at the prequel to Army of the Dead, titled Army of Thieves, just debuted online!

Jonathan Cohen When Pearl Jam’s 2020 world tour was scuttled by the COVID-19 pandemic, bassist Jeff Ament turned off CNN, put his phone away and got busy in his Montana home studio to record a batch of new songs inspired by that unprecedented year. The result is his third solo album, “I Should Be Outside,” which will be released Aug.

Jonathan Cohen Top rock photographer Danny Clinch’s two-day Sea.Hear.Now festival will return to the beach at Asbury Park, N.J., this fall, with that includes Pearl Jam, Patti Smith, Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Idol and more. (See the full lineup and ticket information at SeaHearNowFestival.com.)Clinch, who grew up in Toms River not far from Asbury Park, first saw Pearl Jam on Aug.

Jonathan Cohen From its modest beginnings on the campus of Indiana University a quarter century ago, Secretly Canadian has grown into one of the most respected independent labels in the world, having released albums by the War On Drugs, Antony and the Johnsons, Major Lazer, Yoko Ono and Jason Molina.

Pathé has finalised cast for Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (previously known as Asterix & Obelix: Silk Road), the upcoming fifth live action film from the beloved children’s franchise.

Jill Biden looked chic in a purple ensemble ahead of Inauguration Day. The soon-to-be first lady wore a dress, coat and mask from New York-based designer Jonathan Cohen. She, along with president-elect Joe Biden, vice president-elect Kamala Harris and future second gentleman Doug Emhoff, attended a COVID-19 memorial at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentAlbin Lewi, the artistic director of the international series festival Canneseries, unveiled the lineup for the event’s third edition Tuesday in Paris.The festival, which runs Oct. 9-14, will open with the world premiere of “La Flamme,” with star Jonathan Cohen in attendance.