In the mid-1960s, at the age of 16, Gary Hay was ripped away from his parents and sent to the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys ...
Nickel Boys' breakout star talks to Empire about shooting the first-person film, his future ambitions and more.
RaMell Ross's extraordinary adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel follows two youths at a reform school.
"Nickel Boys" stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson bonded quickly on the set of RaMell Ross' acclaimed film. (Dec. 31) ...
The violence committed against boys – especially Black boys – in so-called reform schools across the Jim Crow South were acts of absolute horror. So, in some ways, it makes sense that director RaMell ...
RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel uses a point-of-view camera to fully immerse ...
Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform ...
It helped me get back to being Ethan.” Herisse in Nickel Boys, whose first-person perspective allows viewers to experience what the main characters see. Courtesy of Orion Pictures The result is ...
Before making the film, Ellis-Taylor, whose character Hattie is Elwood’s grandmother, never felt comfortable working with ...
Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson are the stars of Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’ bold and brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel that tells the story, cinematically, almost entirely in a ...
Ethan Herisse was in the middle of an inorganic chemistry lecture when he got the call that would change his life. The UC Irvine student was taking notes in class when his phone flashed up with an ...
"Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), two Black teens in Florida in ...