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Country music superstar Dolly Parton has teamed up with The Wiggles to create fun new music for children. The Wiggles are a fan favorite for young children, in addition they use bright colors, fun choreography, and catchy tunes to share positive messages with kids. The Wiggles reimagined Dolly’s classic hit “9 to 5” and collaborated with Parton on a fun new song, “Friends.” Keep reading to find out more!

Dolly Parton Teams Up With The Wiggles

Dolly Parton and The Wiggles make great friends! On Feb. 21st, they premiered their new collab, “Friends.” The track was released with a cute music video in which Parton and The Wiggles sing, dance, and perform their new song together. The Wiggles will be sharing their version of “9 to 5” and “Friends” on their upcoming country album, Wiggle Up, Giddy Up.

“Friends” is a mid-tempo country hit that teaches children the importance of friendship.

Australia is a long way from Nashville, but that hasn’t stopped the Wiggles from saddling up with some country friends for their upcoming album Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!, out March 7.

The beloved children’s band shared the title track as the first release from the record. It’s a two-stepping, hoedown-ready song featuring the rising country singer Dasha. “Wiggle up, boots on the ground/Wiggle up, go ‘round and ‘round/Wiggle up, boots on the ground/Giddy up down to Wiggle Town,” they sing over guitars, banjos, and fiddles.

Get ready to wiggle, y’all. The Australian children’s band The Wiggles have announced their latest album, Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!, which will see them embrace a country sound with help from artists like Dolly Parton, Orville Peck, Dasha, Lainey Wilson, and more.

Due on Friday, March 7th, Wiggle Up, Giddy Up! spans 32 tracks, including two songs featuring Parton, titled “Friends!” and “We Will Always Be Friends,” and the previously-released single “Big Red Ute.”

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Filling out the guest list on the album are country artists like Jackson Dean, MacKenzie Porter, and pedal steel guitarist Lucky Oceans, as well as a number of Australian and New Zealander acts, like Morgan Evans, The Wolfe Brothers, the late Slim Dusty, and more.

Along with the album’s announcement, the group issued the music video for its latest single and title track, “Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!” featuring Dasha.

‘After We Collided.’

Five new mainstream titles entered the market last weekend – but none could beat the third frame of Warner Bros’ Tenet, which is benefiting from repeat business.

Product-starved exhibitors welcomed the influx and were pleasantly surprised by the turnout for Roadshow’s After We Collided but disappointed with Madman Entertainment’s Bill & Ted Face the Music.

A home entertainment release in the US, Paramount’s Paw Patrol: Jet to the Rescue drew a reasonable number of kids and families while fans of Korean boy band BTS flocked to Trafalgar Releasing’s Break the Silence: The Movie.

Released by Universal, Slim & I, Kriv Stenders’ biopic on country music star Joy McKean and her determination to be recognised as a performer and songwriter in her own right, resonated in regional locations.

Numero reported the top 20 titles generated $4.2 million, nearly 30 per cent up on the previous frame. “We have what I...

‘Babyteeth.’

As cinemas around the country prepare to open their doors in July, Universal Pictures has set release dates for Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth and Kriv Stenders’ Slim & I.

A bittersweet comedy starring Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Eliza Scanlen and Toby Wallace, Babyteeth will premiere on July 23, counter-programmed against Disney’s Mulan and one week after Warner Bros opens Chris Nolan’s time-travel thriller Tenet.

Universal will be hoping to cash in on the critical buzz for Babyteeth since its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Produced by Alex White and based on Rita Kalnejais’ play, the drama stars Mendelsohn and Davis as a couple who discover their seriously ill teenage daughter Milla (Scanlen) has fallen in love with drug dealer Moses (Wallace).

It’s her protective parents’ worst nightmare but Milla teaches those in her orbit how to live like there is nothing to lose.

“We aim to...

Kriv Stenders on the set of ‘Slim & I.’

Amid the Covid-19 crisis filmmaker Kriv Stenders alternates between feeling terrified, depressed and positive – but, on balance, he is extremely optimistic.

The writer-director believes the Australian screen industry will be forever changed by the pandemic – mostly for the better.

In a webinar today with Screen Producers Australia CEO Matt Deaner, Stenders said he was “future-proofing” his development slate even before the virus erupted because he expected the industry to re-set.

That includes a ‘four quadrant’ film designed for wide cinema release, a genre feature and two documentaries, one of which can be filmed remotely.

This crisis will “galvanise all of us us; it’s a battle call,” says the director of Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, Doctor Doctor, Jack Irish and The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill.

“It will completely change the way I make films on every level.

The Screen Industry Gala Awards.

Despite the event itself being cancelled, Gold Coast Film Festival soldiered on with its annual Screen Industry Gala Awards last night – albeit online.

Winner of the Best Australian Film was director Kriv Stenders’ documentary on Slim Dusty’s wife Joy McKean, Slim & I. Produced by Chris Brown and Aline Jacques, the film sees McKean tell the story of her career, marriage, and her determination to be recognised as a performer and songwriter in her own right.

Indie doco Morgana, co-directed by Josie Hess and Isabel Peppard, took home the Blackmagic Design Best Australian Independent Film Award, winning a Blackmagic Pocket Camera 6K. The film follows Morgana Muses, who in her 40s was an unhappy housewife in Albury. By 50, she was a feminist pornography icon.

Post-production house The Post Lounge won the inaugural Queensland Screen Business of the Year Award and special FX makeup and prosthetics...