Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ starring Leonardo Di Caprio is set for October theatrical release
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Apple Original Films has revealed the release date for Martin Scorsese’s next film 'Killers of the Flower Moon', which is set to be released in selected cities on October 6 before expanding nationwide on October 20 ahead of its release on Apple TV+. 'Killers of the Flower Moon' will see many well-known faces in the cast with Leonardo DiCaprio - who is also the producer of the movie, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, and many more.
The movie is a crime drama and is inspired by a non-fiction book titles 'Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI' by journalist David Grann. The plot of the movie centers the mystery around the murder of the members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s. 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is produced by Scorsese's Sikelia Productions and DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures, with its $200 million budget and the film is being shot in Oklahoma.
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'Killers of the Flower Moon' is all set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May. The release of Scorsese’s crime drama changed the course route of Apple's theatrical strategy that released films in the theatres for minimum engagement and then release the same film on their own streaming platform. Apparently, Apple is planning to invest up to $1 billion in theatrical films every year to set their name in the box-office world, while also departing the audience towards their streaming service.
Will the movie gain a significant theatrical audience?
Martin Scorsese is a big name in the industry and is known to be the godfather of cinema. While fans are on their toes waiting for this movie's release, the one question that surfaces will it get the deserved theatrical audience. Keeping in mind the entire saga that happened last fall when 'She Said', 'Women Talking', and 'The Fabelmans' struggled to sell tickets. The film’s big October 20 release date will be alongside Sony Pictures' 'Dumb Money,' an upcoming American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Craig Gillespie, from a script by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, based on the book 'The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees.'
