‘Nickel Boys’ sets new release date for Mid-December

Amazon MGM Studios and Orion/Plan B’s “Nickel Boys” has a new release date. Directed by Academy Award nominee RaMell Ross, the film was originally scheduled to release October 25 in New York City and November 1 in Los Angeles, but will now debut December 13 in NYC and December 20 in LA.

Featuring critically acclaimed performances from Oscar and Emmy nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and from breakout stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson, the film recently had its successful world premiere at Telluride and opening night at the New York Film Festival.

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SEE ‘Nickel Boys’ director RaMell Ross and cast on making Black pain ‘communal’ on New York Film Festival opening night

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “Nickel Boys” chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. “Most of us don’t know about schools like Dozier, and they are, a lot of them, still around this country where children are being brutalized and suffering violence and suffering isolation,” explained Ellis-Taylor at the NYFF screening.

Featuring deeply felt supporting performances from Hamish Linklater and Emmy nominee and Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs, the film is directed by Academy Award nominee RaMell Ross (“Hale County This Morning,” “This Evening)”, with an adapted screenplay by Ross and Academy Award nominee, PGA nominee, and Emmy winner Joslyn Barnes. Barnes produces alongside Academy Award winners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (“12 Years A Slave,” “Moonlight”), and David Levine.

Cinematographer Jomo Fray, editor Nicholas Monsour, production designer Nora Mendis, set decorator Monique Champagne, costume designer Brittany Loar, composers Scott Alario and Alex Somers, makeup department head Ignacia Soto-Aguilar and hair department head Shandrea Williams, casting director Victoria Thomas, supervising sound editors/re-recording mixers Daniel Timmons and Tony Volante, and sound mixer Mark LeBlanc join Ross behind the camera.

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