Amazon MGM has just postponed the premiere of one of these films which, little by little, are finding a place in the hearts of international critics. We are talking about The Nickel Boysthe adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel, first screened at the Telluride Festival and opening September 27. the New York Film Festival. Now the major followed the same strategy as last year with American fictionpremiere of this latest adaptation at the end of the yearinstead of next October as planned.
The change is quite significant for one of the the main candidates on the red carpet, as it follows the strategy with which they ended up getting five Oscar nominations for the Cord Jefferson-directed film in 2023. The film, which also had a racial theme, had a limited release the same weekend end, before arriving in Los Angeles and finally in other territories in January, after winning the Audience Award at TIFF (Toronto Film Festival). American fiction would end up winning the statuette for best adapted screenplay and would increase $22 million all over the world. An excellent result given that the project had a budget of 10 million dollars. Later, it would land on Prime Video streaming. This direction which has succeeded in strengthening the presence in theaters and achieving the distribution power of 1,700 rooms This is the same thing that the study of the brand created by Jeff Bezos intends to do immediately with the book that won the Pulitzer in 2020as this would ensure a smooth run for the final awards season.
“The Nickel Boys”
But Amazon MGM has other ambitions for Nickel Boys than just using “the plan” of American fiction. This delay in the release date also gives the distributor the opportunity to make additional 35mm prints of the story. before its final release in December. At that time, the film will face big box office wonders like The Rohirrim War And Kraven the Hunterbut in the same way, it will also compete with other author productions of the stature of The Brutalist.
Developed chronologically between the 1960s and the first decade of the 21st in Tallahassee, The Nickel Boys follows the story of two young black men who live in a Florida reform school during the law era Jim Crow of segregation. A fictional plot but inspired by a real reformatory in the place where, for several years, the abuses against its residents were hidden. For the moment, the specialist critics have given in RaMell Roos’ first filmso given the strength of the original material, we could be looking at a more than likely contender in the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar field.
This is not the first work that Prime Video has adapted from Whitehead. In 2021, the streaming service and director of moonlightBarry Jenkins, filmed the great The metro. A story that would end up winning the Golden Globe for best mini-series and which would occupy all the lists of the best television dramas of that year.
An almost documentary filming
The Nickel Boys was compared to The area of interest because of its elements of documentary nature and according to the specialized press who have already seen it, it uses a somewhat radical visual structure, in which the camera is placed in first person point of view of its two main characters, even mirroring Ross’ documentary work.
The proposal stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson as the two young protagonists, as well as Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. The latter seems an obvious candidate to receive her second Oscar nomination, three years after her first consideration for Best Supporting Actress for The Williams Method. Executive producing includes Gabby Shepard, Emily Wolfe, Kenneth Yu, Chadwick Prichard and Brad Pitt with his label, Plan B Productions. It remains to be seen whether the visit to the rooms is sufficient to generate the impact and visibility of the Academy to be taken into account for any future application.
The Nickel Boys always It does not have a release date in Spainalthough it could be that in our country it comes directly to the Prime Video platform.
