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Sophie Ellis-Bextor has had an unexpected resurgence in the UK charts with her 2001 hit ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’. The song is currently sat at number 2 behind Noah Kahan’s ‘Stick Season’ and it could very well reach the chart summit in the coming weeks. The reason the song is everywhere again, 23 years on from its original release, is thanks to its inclusion in ‘Saltburn‘ the much-buzzed film starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi. Fans of the film have been recreating the dance sequence the song features in…

Sophie Ellis Bextor’s 2001 single Murder on the Dancefloor has matched its original highest chart position, propelled back to No 2 thanks to its part in Emerald Fennell’s hit film Saltburn.Murder on the Dancefloor re-entered the UK Top 40 at No 8 last week after Saltburn premiered on Amazon Prime on 22 December. Many households watched Fennell’s film about destructive desire across the class divide during the festive season – and shrivelled on the sofa when they realised that the country-house flick, set in 2007, was more…

Jacob Elordi, star of Saltburn and Priscilla, Phoebe Dyenvor from Fair Play and Bridgerton, and Ayo Edebiri of The Bear and Bottoms, are among the nominees for this year’s Bafta rising star award for up-and-coming talent.The actors have been shortlisted alongside Mia McKenna-Bruce from How to Have Sex and Sophie Wilde from Talk to Me. All five have captured the imagination of both the public and film industry over the past year, Bafta said.Elordi – one of the biggest stars of Gen Z, who rose to prominence with his role in…

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 single Murder on the Dancefloor has returned to the Top 10 for the first time in 22 years owing to its appearance in the climactic scene of the Emerald Fennell-directed film Saltburn.The song charted at No 8, with 2.2m streams; prior to the release of Saltburn on Amazon Prime, weekly streams of the song peaked at 293,000, according to Official Charts Company (OCC) data.Ellis-Bextor’s second solo single originally peaked at No 2 in December 2001, when it was beaten to the top spot by Daniel…

Sophie Ellis-Bextor is still making sense of how “Murder on the Dancefloor,” a poppy disco song she released in 2001, has become a viral hit thanks to its inclusion in the movie Saltburn. The track plays during the final scene of the movie in which its star, Barry Keoghan, dances nude — a visual that has inspired a trend on TikTok, helping propel the song onto Billboard’s charts. “It actually feels really magical, and if I’m honest, I don’t think I’ve completely processed it really,” she recently told the BBC.…

Sophie Ellis-Bextor said she watched Saltburn with her teenage son sat between her and his grandmother.The “Murder on the Dancefloor” singer spoke to Lorraine Kelly on Friday, 5 January, about the success her hit has seen following its feature in the final scene of Emerald Fennell’s film.“I did feel for my 19-year-old being sat in between his mum and his grandma,” Ellis-Bextor added, appearing to reference the film’s shocking scenes.“I think I was more worried about him than he was really.” Sophie Ellis-Bextor said she…

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Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Ask Sophie: Is it easier yet for AI founders to get green cards? Ask Sophie: How do we transfer H-1Bs? Can we…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSophie Ellis-Bextor has admitted she “wasn’t quite prepared” to see Barry Keoghan dance nude to her 2001 hit in his newest film Saltburn.The Irish actor, 31, stars opposite Jacob Elordi, 26, in director Emerald Fennell’s comedy-thriller about a student (Keoghan) who is invited to spend the summer at his aristocratic classmate’s (Elordi) sprawling estate.In the final sequence of the…

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Ask Sophie: How do we transfer H-1Bs? Can we transfer green cards too? Ask Sophie: Does the H-1B visa require…