FOB team up with Courtney, Elton

Fall Out Boy play at The Metro. Picture: Chris Pavlich Source: National Features

REUNITED American chart-toppers Fall Out Boy have melted social media with the announcement Courtney Love and Sir Elton John will guest on their comeback record Save Rock And Roll.

Back in Australia for intimate sold-out fan shows to relaunch their career, FOB's Pete Wentz said fans were polarised by the news the controversial Hole frontwoman and widow of Kurt Cobain would feature on a track.

The queen of rock attitude reprises Britney Spear's signature line "It's Courtney, bitch" in an online teaser for the track which features the band chanting Rat-a-tat-tat.

"When we announced Courtney was on the song, the reaction on Facebook was only about 30 per cent positive while on Twitter it was about 80 per cent positive,'' Wentz said.

The band took an indefinite hiatus after breaking down during their last Australian tour a few years ago.

"One of the last times we were here was the break down - everyone was so burned out. The cold shoulder definitely did happen; when you're talking through managers, that's when it's bad,'' Wentz said.

While they took time out to indulge other projects, Wentz, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley remained good friends, hanging out at each other's weddings and occasionally getting together to write.

Wentz said becoming a father - he was divorced from wife Ashlee Simpson in 2011 - had also changed his perspective on being in a band.

"It was healthy to have time off, to figure out my own life and be accountable," he said.

"I felt I was a pretty selfish person in my 20s; having a kid was good for me, it was a good catalyst for me to change."

Despite being off the radar for four years, Fall Out Boy have retained their loyal fanbase here, with their Sydney and Melbourne return shows this week selling out in minutes.

Their comeback single, My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) has had more than five million views on Vevo.

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Save Rock And Roll is out on April 12.

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Courtney takes Hollywood by storm

Jai Courtney is making his mark in Hollywood, playing Bruce Willis's son in the new Die Hard film. Picture: Nicole Cleary Source: News Limited

TWELVE months ago, Jai Courtney snuck into the Australian F1 Grand Prix on his bicycle.

The red carpet rolled out for the Sydney actor this past weekend as he returned a movie star - co-starring with Bruce Willis in A Good Day to Die Hard.

"It was a very different experience, there was no corporate hospitality, that’s for sure," Courtney laughed of his previous Grand Prix adventure. "Next year, I’m going to put a little more pressure on them to get me in that celebrity race - that looked like fun."

Courtney, 26, is already in top gear on the big screen, facing off against Tom Cruise in January’s Jack Reacher and now playing son to Willis’s iconic Die Hard cop Jack McClane.

A Good Day to Die Hard has so far grossed $256.7 million worldwide. It opens in Australia on Thursday.

"It’s certainly opening up some more interesting opportunities for me,” said the now LA-based Courtney. “I don’t think life has changed dramatically, but it’s a great thing."

Courtney said the toughest part of following in Willis’s action hero footsteps was “how confusing things can be”.

"This film is in a sense one big action sequence - it’s like a 90-minute chase. So many times you’ll forget where it is you are. You might sustain an injury and then three weeks later you’re shooting the scene that immediately follows that and it’s like, ‘Hang on, didn’t I have a piece of glass in my shin?’

"It’s quite a chaotic thing to do."

Kate Winslet could be Courtney’s next co-star, with the Aussie confirming he has “jumped on board” the movie Divergent, based on a series of best-selling young-adult novels.

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