For the first time, Adele has been cast in a feature film. According to reports from Deadline and Variety , the British singer will star alongside in Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, and others in director Tom Ford’s Cry to Heaven . The movie is mooted to come out in late autumn 2026.

Cry to Heaven is Ford’s adaptation of American author Anne Rice’s 1982 novel of the same name . The story is set in 18th-century Italy and follows a Venetian noble and a castrated Calabrian singer who are both trying to succeed in opera. In a contemporaneous review of the novel, for The New York Times , Alice Hoffman noted the importance of music in Cry to Heaven , describing it as “bold and erotic, laced with luxury, sexual tension, music.” She continued, “Music is every

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