“Cherry” is a new film starring Tom Holland and it was released digitally on Apple TV+.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new movie.
- Cherry is a 2021 American crime drama film
- The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo
- It is based on a screenplay by Angela Russo-Otstot and Jessica Goldberg
- The film is based on the novel of the same name by Nico Walker
- The film stars Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Michael Rispoli and Jeff Wahlberg
- It follows an Army veteran who resorts to robbing banks to support his opioid addiction
- Cherry was released in theaters on February 26, 2021
- It was released digitally on Apple TV+ on March 12, 2021
- The film received mixed reviews
- Critics highly praised the performances of Holland, Bravo, and their romantic chemistry together
- They criticized the screenplay and specifically the direction of the Russo brothers
- Tom Holland’s brother Harry makes a cameo appearance in the film as a drug dealer identified as the “Shaky Kid”
- As revealed by Holland on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he and his brother came up with the idea of having the latter appear in every film he makes onwards as the “Shaky Kid”
- Harry will reprise the role in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Anthony and Joe Russo’s production company AGBO purchased the production rights to the novel in August 2018
- Beating out offers from Warner Bros., which would’ve had James Franco directing
- And Sony, with the Russos set to direct the film
- In March 2019, Tom Holland entered talks to star in the film
- Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Jeff Wahlberg, Kyle Harvey, Forrest Goodluck and Michael Gandolfini were added to the cast in October
- Pooch Hall would be cast in an undisclosed role in December
- Filming was initially reported to begin on July 15, 2019
- The filmmakers had plans to shoot the film in Ohio, the setting of the novel and homestate of the Russo brothers
- Due to the Greater Cleveland Film Commission’s proposed changes in tax incentives were forced to move the planned shooting to California
- However, the proposed figures were lowered from $100 million to $40 million, and production returned to the state
- Because of this, filming did not begin until on October 8, 2019, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio
- It concluded in February 2020
- According to the Russo brothers, editing for Cherry took place as it was filmed to allow them to see what they were missing, and if they needed to “rewrite or reshoot” parts of the film
- The film score for Cherry was composed by Henry Jackman
- The score was released by Lakeshore Records on February 26, 2021, via Apple Music
- Apple TV+ acquired distribution rights to the film in September 2020 for around $40 million
- Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that the film holds a 39% rating
- Based on 160 critics
- It has an average rating of 5.4/10
- The site’s critics consensus reads: “It’s certainly stylish and it offers Tom Holland a welcome opportunity to branch out, but Cherry’s woes stem from a story that’s too formulaic to bowl anyone over”
- According to Metacritic, which assigned the film a weighted average score of 44 out of 100
- Based on 43 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
