March 5, 2021
Chadwick Boseman Starrer 21 Bridges To Release In Chinese Theaters This March (Photo Credit: Instagram/Chadwick Boseman & IMDb)
The Chadwick Boseman starrer police action film, 21 Bridges will hit Chinese theaters on March 19, the first Hollywood action title to debut in the world’s largest film market so far this year. It was produced by China’s Huayi Brothers, as well as Los Angeles’ AGBO and MWM Studios.
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The news comes just days after Boseman posthumously won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama motion picture with his work in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Chinese viewers paid more attention to the awards this year due to the best director win for China-born Chloe Zhao, which has sparked pride and nationalist anger.
Chadwick Boseman s 21 Bridges to Be First Hollywood Action Release in China This Year
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The Chadwick Boseman-starring police action film “21 Bridges” will hit Chinese theaters on March 19, the first Hollywood action title to debut in the world’s largest film market so far this year. It was produced by China’s Huayi Brothers, as well as Los Angeles’ AGBO and MWM Studios.
The news comes just days after Boseman posthumously won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama motion picture with his work in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Chinese viewers paid more attention to the awards this year due to the best director win for China-born Chloe Zhao, which has sparked pride and nationalist anger.
Cherry Review: Tom Holland Acts Methodically in an Overblown Dud From the Russo Brothers Cherry Review: Tom Holland Acts Methodically in an Overblown Dud From the Russo Brothers
The Spider-Man star plays a nowhere dude who falls in love, goes to war, and becomes a junkie bank robber.
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With: Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Michael Rispoli, Jeff Wahlberg, Forrest Goodluck, Michael Gandolfini.
In “Cherry,” Tom Holland sports a buzzcut, dead eyes, and a skeevy complexion. In a look-at-my-badass-self reversal from the effusive heroics of the “Spider-Man” films, he plays an Iraq War veteran turned opioid addict turned heroin addict turned bank robber, and he looks zoned-out and strung-out, like Eminem as a fallen Eagle Scout. He gets the cold sweats, he weeps real tears and talks in a phlegmy voice, he contorts his face into a pale mask of pain, and at one point he rubs the top of his noggin and says, “I have th
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Tom Holland plays a Cleveland college dropout who spirals into drug addiction and crime after coming home from Iraq with PTSD in the Russo Brothers drama based on Nico Walker s novel. Sometimes I feel like I ve already seen everything that s gonna happen. And it s a nightmare, says Tom Holland s title character early in the voiceover narration that gurgles like whitewater rapids through the Russo Brothers
Cherry. A little later, after experiencing the horror of combat as an Army medic in Iraq, he adds: Suddenly there was nothing interesting about it anymore. You might find yourself nodding in agreement for the wrong reasons during this posturing vanity production, a drama that wears its gritty poetry on its sleeve like a macho film-school merit badge, trivializing war, trauma and addiction with its veneration of style over psychological complexity.