The singer will star alongside Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Thandiwe Newton and Nicholas Hoult in an Anne Rice adaptation
Adele is set to make her acting debut in the new film from Tom Ford.
According to Deadline, the fashion designer and film-maker’s third feature will be an adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1982 novel Cry to Heaven, a drama set in 18th century Italy.
There’s not quite enough charm to go around in Netflix’s festive season opener A Merry Little Ex-Mas, a film that might have benefited from a release date a little closer to the big day. Maybe by then, we might have been more enveloped in the all-consuming excitement of Christmas to overlook its failings, but here in the post-Halloween, pre-Thanksgiving netherworld, there is no amount of fake snow or eggnog that can convince us to get on board.
It’s yet another one of the streamer’s mechanically assembled seasonal box-tickers – lead best known from the 90s/2000s, a budget of what looks like $13, some unfunny pratfalls, some city v small town tension, a visibly Canadian shoot, regressive gender roles – and will probably be lapped up by the same crowd who come back every year knowing exactly what to expect. It’s thankfully not as hideous as these can be (2023’s Heather Graham/Brandy sled-wreck Best. Christmas. Ever! remains as bad as things on both Netflix and in life itself can get) but it’s also not quite as passably fine as it should be (last year’s Christina Milian and Lindsay Lohan vehicles just about doing the job on that front).
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack are joined by Past Lives star Greta Lee in Disney’s highly anticipated sequel
The first trailer for Toy Story 5 has provided a brief glimpse at the highly anticipated animated sequel out next summer.
The teaser introduces a new arrival and “all-new threat to playtime” with the tagline “the age of toys is over”. The latest character is a smart tablet called Lilypad, voiced by Past Lives and Tron: Ares star Greta Lee, bringing new tech to the old toys.
The New York-based company can now create AI-generated versions of their voices as part of a bid to solve a “key ethical challenge” in the artificial intelligence industry’s alliance with Hollywood.
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