Dua Lipa, Ad-Rock Land New Film Roles

Dua Lipa and the Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) are making their way back to the big screen — one via glossy A24 ensemble chaos, the other through a slow-burn psychological spiral.

Lipa is continuing her steady pivot into acting with a role in Peaked, the upcoming feature from writer/director Molly Gordon (The Bear, Oh, Hi!). Backed by A24, the film centers on “the two girls who traumatized you in high school” attempting to recapture their former glory at a 10-year reunion. Lipa joins a stacked cast that includes Emma Mackey, Laura Dern, Heated Rivalry‘s Connor Storrie and Simone Ashley, among others, as she continues to build out a film résumé that began with Barbie and expanded with Argylle.

On the opposite end of that tonal spectrum, Horovitz has been cast in Time Out, a new drama from Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere) that finds Adam Sandler in one of his increasingly frequent dramatic turns.

Based on L’Emploi du temps by Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo, Time Out follows a man who, after losing his job, hides the truth from his family and constructs an increasingly elaborate web of lies. Cooper says the material has lingered with him for decades.

“I first encountered Laurent Cantet’s film in 2001, and it’s lived with me ever since,” he said. “I’ve been thinking about revisiting it for years, but now felt like the right moment — we’re living in a time where questions of identity, work and self-worth have become impossible to ignore.”

Horovitz joins a veteran-heavy cast including Willem Dafoe, Gaby Hoffmann, F. Murray Abraham and Steve Zahn, continuing a parallel career in indie film that has included Golden Exits and Roadside Prophets.