The 2024 New York Film Festival will open with RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, it was announced today. The movie, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Nickel Boys, which Ross directed from a script he wrote with Joslyn Barnes
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Hollywood wants to make sure we all have a Merry Christmas and one of the gifts they’re offering is Soul, the newest production from Pixar Studios. The film was originally scheduled to premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival before debuting in theaters Nov. 20, but neither of those events happened due to the coronavirus pandemic.
You may have had the same reaction as I did when TNT announced that it was adapting Bong Joon Ho‘s Snowpiercer for television: “Uhhhh, I don’t remember asking for this.” Bong’s film is cherished among indie film fans and science-fiction geeks for its portrayal of an apocalyptic future in which the last of humanity is
Some heroes wear capes and some just orchestrate elaborate Zoom surprises for 9-year-old fans of Hamilton. John Krasinski and his wife Emily Blunt made one young fan who was unable to go see Hamilton due to COVID-19 shutdowns very happy with a surprise performance of the show’s opening number via video conference. On the second