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Morrissey has announced a new album, and it’s up for grabs to any label who wants it.

News of his forthcoming release, titled Without Music The World Dies, was shared via the musician’s Messages from Morrissey website on Monday (20 February).

According to the former Smiths frontman, the new record was recorded in France and features 10 new tracks, “described by [Morrissey’s co-writer and lead guitarist], Jesse Tobias as ‘a lightning strike’”.

However, the tracklist appears to give clues as to the overarching tone of the album – and it’s not a cheery one.

The ten tracks are listed as: “The Night Pop Dropped”, “Zoom Zoom The Little Boy”, “Boulevard”, “Headache”, “Without Music the World Dies”, “Suspicious Minds”, “Notre-Dame”, “Many Icebergs Ago”, “Happy New Tears” and “The Monsters of Pig Alley”.

As per the website, Morrissey wants anyone interested in releasing the new album to get in touch at an email provided.

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Mélita Toscan du Plantier has spent the best part of two decades running Morocco’s Marrakech International Film Festival.

This work carries on the legacy of her late husband, influential French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who was the driving force behind the festival’s launch in 2001, overseeing two editions before his death in 2003 at the Berlin Film Festival.

Famously well-connected within the film world, Mélita Toscan du Plantier has since put the event on the international film festival map, pulling together starry juries and guest lists that would not look out of place at Cannes.

This year’s edition, running November 11 to 19, featured Paolo Sorrentino, Vanessa Kirby, Diane Kruger, Justin Kurzel, Nadine Labaki, Laïla Marrakchi and Tahar Rahim in the jury while other guests included Jim Jarmusch, Julia Ducournau, Leos Carax, Paul Schrader and Indian mega-star Ranveer Singh.

During the pandemic, this work was put on hold after the...

Exclusive: French film actress Judith Godrèche is making her debut as a TV director debut with an A24-backed comedy series inspired by her life.

A24 is co-producing Icon of French Cinema with Franco-German channel Arte and Cpb Films on the English- and French-language project, which stars and is inspired by arthouse icon Godrèche’s life and career. Production is set to begin later this year.

Godrèche will play her fictional alter ego, and will be joined by Liz Kingsman (Borderline, Parlement), Angela Molina (Etreintes Brisées), her daughter Tess Barthélémy (Under the Eiffel Tower), Laurent Stocker (Jeux d’influence, Caprice), Thomas Scimeca (Azuro, Notre Dame), Loïc Corbery (Dom Juan, Pas son genre) and Jean-Christophe Folly (Triangle of Sadness), with the special participation of Carole Bouquet.

Icon of French Cinema will follow Judith as she returns to Paris after exile from Hollywood, intent of making a comeback with a new movie.

Twenty-five years ago, Disney Animation’s The Lion King stampeded off the big screen and onto Broadway through director Julie Taymor’s wildly stylized stage adaptation. The musical filled with crowd-pleasing Disney songs later becoming one of the most successful musicals of all time. From Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin to The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Frozen, Disney animated classics have found new life on the musical stage in productions that not only celebrate the spirit of the original films, but also expand on them in ways only capable on the live theatre stage.

Disney+ is stuffed to the gills with content this November, both in terms of original programming and new movies. The season finale of “Andor” drops toward the end of the month, and with filming already set to start this year it shouldn’t be too long before fans are reunited with Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor again. On top of that, the long-gestating sequel to the 2007 fairy tale feature “Enchanted” hits the service this month. Amy Adams returns as Princess Giselle, now a mother and wife, who discovers that raising a family could set her up as a new evil stepmother.

But what’s most anticipated has to be the return of Willow (Warwick Davis) in the Disney+ series of the same name. Originally announced at the 2019 D23 Expo, “Willow” is set years after the first film—directed by Ron Howard in 1988—and, per Disney’s synopsis, will be an...

Back in April 2019, before the world could’ve ever imagined that only one year later, we’d be in lock down due to a quickly mutating virus, we were shocked by another major event: a devastating fire at the legendary Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. Today, Netflix has released a trailer for their upcoming scripted, French language miniseries, Notre-Dame, which will tell multiple angles of the unforgettable story.

"Save the cathedral… without losing a single life." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a mini-series titled Notre Dame, the second major production based around the Notre Dame fire in 2019. The moment this fire at the iconic cathedral made news around the world, I knew it would be turned into movies. Jean-Jacques Annaud made his own Notre-Dame On Fire film also releasing this year, and Netflix has made their mini-series based around the exact same concept - following the firefighters who went to work putting out the fire that night. Hervé Hadmar's Notre Dame series follows the story of the night of April 15th, 2019 in Notre-Dame Cathedral alongside the many firefighters and the impact the fire had on different characters across France. Starring Roschdy Zem, Caroline Proust, Megan Northam, Simon Abkarian, Alice Isaaz, Marie Zabukovec, Sandor Funtek. This looks like it has some gorgeous visuals, but it also...