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‘Nickel Boys’ & ‘The Last Showgirl’ Land As Awards Season Hopefuls Rev Up Indie Market – Specialty Preview
'The Last Showgirl' starring Pamela Anderson and RaMell Ross' 'Nickel Boys' open the indie film box office with Jeremy Piven in 'The Performance' as awards season heats up.
Inspired by real-life events, Nickel Boys chronicles the bond between two Black teenagers played by Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson who become wards of a juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida. Piven recently told Deadline’s Contender’s LA that he’s been working for 15 years to get the film made after his mother steered him to the story in a New Yorker article — giving him time to practice his tap dancing. Joined by Columbia professor Rafael Yuste (the film’s science advisor), the two cross the country querying innovators in cerebral research and bioethics: Can computers help people communicate telepathically?
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