Luke Tennie’s ‘The Nickel Boys’ Casting; ‘Chantilly Bridge’, ‘This Is Jessica’ Acquisitions; Chromatic Black’s Ida B. Wells Fund Winners; ‘Double Down South’ Clip – Film Briefs
02.12.2022 - 23:27
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EXCLUSIVE: Luke Tennie (Shrinking) has boarded Oscar nom RaMell Ross’ feature The Nickel Boys, based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name.
The film from MGM’s Orion Pictures is based on the true story of a Florida reform school that damaged the lives of thousands of children over more than a century. Its protagonist is Elwood Curtis, a Black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee who is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, then finding himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors.
Tennie will play Griff, a student boxer at Nickel Academy. He joins an ensemble including Aunjanue Ellis, Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater and Fred Hechinger. Ross and Louverture Films’ Joslyn Barnes adapted the screenplay. Plan B Entertainment, Anonymous Content and Barnes are producing, with Whitehead serving as exec producer.
Tennie will next be seen starring opposite Jason Segel and Harrison Ford in a breakout role on Apple TV+’s comedy series, Shrinking. He is repped by A3 Artists Agency and Atlas Artists.
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EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has picked up North American rights to Chantilly Bridge — the sequel to Showtime’s 1993 film Chantilly Lace — from Motion Picture Exchange, slating the pic acquired out of AFM for release in theaters during the first quarter of 2023.
The original film directed by Linda Yellen watches as seven female friends gather multiple times over the course of a year at a vacation home in the Colorado Rockies, seeing their relationships tested as assorted secrets are revealed. The sequel picks up with Chantilly Lace‘s characters 25 years later, as memories of their past implode on the present. With unpredictable humor and searing
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