The burgeoning star, who leads Ramell Ross’ Oscar hopeful, says all he wants is for audiences to feel how much love they put into making it. By Seija Rankin Senior Editor “I had no problem walking ...

Novel adaptations are a dime-a-dozen in modern cinema, although, every now and then, one seems to catch the eye thanks to many declaring the source material 'unadaptable'. Colson Whitehead's novel The ...

History is a matter of perspective. "Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), ...

One thing about a period piece is that no matter how brilliantly executed it might be or how relevant to the present it may feel, simply setting a story in the past can't help but keep the audience at ...

It’s harder to adapt a great book than an average one. Literary greatness often inhibits directors, who end up paying prudent homage to the source rather than engaging in the bold revisions that ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it "a date which will live in infamy." But a recent survey of 350 Long Island high school students found little more than half knew the Dec. 7, 1941, ...

Plan B's Dede Gardner and Louverture's Joslyn Barnes collaborated with writer/director Ross to create a unique point-of-view language for adapting Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

The 'Nickel Boys' actress specializes in supporting roles that steal the spotlight: “If we only know the figurehead and we don’t know the women who were doing the groundwork, it’s not the full truth.” ...