Apple has acquired Cherry, an upcoming drama movie helmed by Avengers: Endgame administrators Anthony and Joe Russo that options Spider-Man star Tom Holland within the lead function.
In response to Deadline, Apple has paid about $50 million USD (about $67 million CAD) for Cherry, which is able to launch on Apple TV+ someday in early 2021.
Cherry is an enormous get for Apple, given the expertise connected to the movie. Most notably, it’s the first movie to be directed by the Russos after Endgame, which launched in April 2019 and went on to grow to be the highest-grossing film of all time.
Cherry may even be the Russos’ fourth movie with Holland, following earlier collaborations on Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Civil Battle, Avengers: Infinity Battle and Avengers: Endgame. Holland, for his half, has additionally led two extremely profitable solo Marvel-Sony movies, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Residence, with a third on the way.
Based mostly on Nico Walker’s 2018 novel of the identical title, Cherry follows a military medic (Holland) who turns into hooked on opioids and turns to robbing banks to fund his habit. A trailer for the movie has not but been launched.
Cherry is the newest in a lineup of notable movies that Apple has acquired for Apple TV+ in latest months. Earlier this yr, the corporate shelled out a reported $70 million USD (abut $94 million CAD) for the Tom Hanks-led WWII drama Greyhound, which premiered on Apple TV+ in July.
Moreover, Apple has bought Antoine Fuqua’s $105 million USD (about $140 million CAD) thriller Emancipationstarring Will Smith and Martin Scorsese’s $200 million USD (about $268 million CAD) drama Killers of the Flower Moon with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro. The latter deal led to Scorsese signing a multi-year film and TV deal with Apple.
The Russos, in the meantime, have been protecting busy post-Endgame by working with quite a lot of firms via their AGBO manufacturing firm. For essentially the most half, although, they’ve primarily been producing movies and TV reveals, like 21 Bridges with the late Chadwick Boseman, Netflix’s extremely profitable blockbuster Extraction (for which Joe Russo additionally wrote the screenplay) and Amazon’s world occasion collectionCitadel with Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra.
That mentioned, they’re additionally set to direct The Grey Man for Netflix in January, a new action-thriller starring Chris Evans and Canada’s own Ryan Reynolds that can reportedly be Netflix’s most costly movie to this point.
Picture credit score: AGBO
Supply: Deadline
