Apple Original Films has acquired worldwide rights to Cherry, directed by Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo, in a deal pegged in the high $40 millions.
Mike Fleming Jr. for Deadline:
The film is a decidedly different kind of drama, an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Nico Walker that is based on his story. It is a finished film that will become an awards season entry.
Tom Holland plays a young Cleveland man who, after being spurned by the love of his life, joins the army before she returns to tell him she has made a mistake and they belong together. He becomes an Army medic in Iraq and sees violence and carnage no one should. Returning with a raging case of undiagnosed PTSD, he is prescribed the opiate Oxycontin. Soon, he and his young wife move from pills to heroin, and he turns to robbing banks to pay their debts and feed their habit. Walker’s young wife is played by Ciara Bravo (Small Engine Repair).
MacDailyNews Take: Cherry gives Apple yet another* viable awards season contender. Fleming reports that the plan is to qualify for the Academy Awards and premiere the film in early 2021 on Apple TV+.
*Apple already has the Tom Hanks-starrer WWII film Greyhound, Emancipation with Will Smith, the Martin Scorsese-directed Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, On The Rocks, the Sofia Coppola-directed film that stars Rashida Jones and Bill Murray; the Cherry Jones-Jason Segel-starring The Sky is Everywhere, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning documentary Boys State, the Spike Jonze-directed Beastie Boys Story, the Werner Herzog film Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, and Sharper starring Julianne Moore.
Disappointed Canadian…I thought this was about Don Cherry.
Marie Antoinette: “Let them eat cake.” One of the French Revolutions executed her.
US: “Let them consume entertainment.” While the top 1% rob you while insisting in its ads that they are enriching you.
Socialism: “One for all and all for one!” It’s where all care for the group’s outcome as much as they care for themselves, the system works among the caring; It fails among Rightwingers, service-to-selves.
The difference is clear to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear and that’s why we are Apple users.
bs. utopia works if it’s governed by and populated with utopians, or maybe, highly evolved earthlings, of which, there are likely very few. among homo sapiens on earth, capitalism and evolving, conscientious and charitable humans of good will are the next best socio-economic system of self-governance. most human beings are prone, even predisposed to things like anger, lust, greed, materialism and vanity and, humans governing humans are not likely to produce anything even near what you’d like without autocrats subduing human nature and that is why our current American system of a government with checks and balances works as well as it does even with it’s flaws. so what if some of us are particularly successful, so what if there’s a 1%. a lot of that 1% money is given back in various ways to elevate those with less.
More Apple TV+ Crap
Yep, exactly.. AppleTV+ is generally horrible.. I’ve watched 3 items in just under a year. Tried to watch “See” early on and couldn’t do it.. Apple is wasting more money by the day and they are tying AppleOne to AppleTV+.