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Adele to make film debut in Tom Ford's first movie in a decade

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on

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Adele will jump from stage to screen, making her film debut in Tom Ford’s new film, currently slated for a fall 2026 release, as the powerhouse crooner shelves music for the time being.

The 16-time Grammy winner, 37, will appear in the 64-year-old designer and director’s self-financed adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Cry to Heaven,” per Deadline.

The Ford-penned 18th century-set film — which is now in preproduction in London and Rome — also stars Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Hunter Schafer, Thandiwe Newton, Mark Strong, and Paul Bettany.

News of Adele’s pivot comes over a year after she proclaimed in summer 2024 that she wanted “a big break” from music after her residency at Las Vegas’ Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which wrapped last November.

“I don’t have any plans for new music, at all,” Adele, whose most recent studio album, “30,” arrived in November 2021. “I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while.”

Though Ford’s film will mark her first screen role, Adele has already earned an Oscar in 2013 for Best Original Song (“Skyfall,” the title song from the James Bond film) and an Emmy in 2022 for her “Adele: One Night Only” special.

 

“Cry to Heaven,” which centers on a Venetian noble and castrated Calabrian singer with operatic aspirations, marks Ford’s first directorial effort since 2016’s Oscar-nominated “Nocturnal Animals” — starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon and Taylor-Johnson — and his third film overall.

He first stepped behind the camera for 2009’s “A Single Man,” which netted Firth an Academy Award nomination for best actor.

His newest film will begin principal photography in January, just over three years after Estée Lauder announced it would acquire his eponymous fashion house for a whopping $2.8 billion.

Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, “Adolescence” Emmy winner Owen Cooper, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Josephine Thiesen, Theodore Pellerin, Daryl McCormack, Cassian Bilton, Hauk Hannemann and Pedro Pascal’s sister Lux Pascal have also been cast in “Cry to Heaven.”


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