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Awards Buzz Buoys Indies: Pamela Anderson Steps Out In ‘The Last Showgirl’, Audiences Bond With Daniel Craig-Led ‘Queer’ – Specialty Box Office

Pamela Anderson in 'The Last Showgirl', Daniel Craig in 'Queer', Ramel Ross' 'Nickel Boys' and 'Flow' as awards buzz boosts indie film box office.

New this weekend Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios launched a platform rollout of awards contender Nickel Boys with $60.8k at two NYC theaters, the Angelika and AMC Lincoln Square, for a solid per screen average of $30.4k for writer/director RaMell Ross’s debut narrative film. Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, it chronicles the bond between two Black teenagers (Ethan Herisse and Wilson), who become wards of a juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida. Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of his native Ithaca after 20 years, haggard and unrecognizable to save his beloved wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche), a prisoner in her own home hounded by suitors.

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