Amazon MGM Studios & Orion Set Fall Release For Feature Take Of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel ‘Nickel Boys’

EXCLUSIVE: More theatrical product for 2024 as Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures has dated the feature take of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Nickel Boys for October 25. It’s a limited theatrical release on a date that also includes Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance and Cinedigm’s Terrifier 3.

Directed and co-adapted by RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor star. Ross co-adapted with Joslyn Barnes. Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner produce with David Levine and Barnes. Anonymous Content and Louverture Films are also production companies.

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Amazon MGM Studios’ Black-themed American Fiction was a huge success at art houses, grossing north of $21M after its Audience Award at TIFF. The movie saw an Adapted Screenplay Oscar win for its filmmaker Cord Jefferson as well as noms for Best Picture, Original Score, Jeffrey Wright for Best Actor and Sterling K. Brown for Supporting Actor.

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