Orion Pictures & Amazon MGM’s ‘Nickel Boys’ Now Opening In Mid-December
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: After a successful world premiere at Telluride and opening night at the New York Film Festival, and with Rotten Tomatoes critical reviews at 80% fresh, Amazon MGM Studios is taking Orion/Plan B’s Nickel Boys to screens later in December.
Originally the RaMell Ross-directed and co-written feature based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was scheduled to go October 25 in New York City and November 1 in Los Angeles.
Now Nickel Boys will debut December 13 in NYC and December 20 in LA. That’s a platform launch similar to Amazon MGM’s Oscar-nominated American Fiction, which opened last year on December 15, ultimately making $21 million stateside.
In addition, A24’s The Zone of Interest had a mid-December launch and expanded throughout January off the heat of several awards and noms.
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