RaMell Ross, who directed 'Nickel Boys' based on the Colson Whitehead novel, believes the prolific writer gave his blessing to the adaptation which will open the New York Film Festival Tonight

IndieWire's Anne Thompson talks to 'Nickel Boys' producers Joslyn Barnes and Dede Gardner about making Colson Whitehead's seemingly unadaptable book.

"Nickel Boys," RaMell Ross's adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, opened New York Film Festival's 62nd edition on Friday night. The historical drama, which received rave reviews out of Telluride in September,

RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys is a staggering work that shines a cold light on a particularly heinous moment in our country’s history. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel of the same name, Nickel Boys follows two young Black men incarcerated in the ’60s at the fictional Nickel Academy,