EntertainmentStreamingThe Apple TV+ Martin Scorsese movie has a release date – but there’s a catchAnd the catch is that you won’t be able to see it on Apple TV+ firstWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
EntertainmentStreamingThe Apple TV+ Martin Scorsese movie has a release date – but there’s a catchAnd the catch is that you won’t be able to see it on Apple TV+ firstWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
And the catch is that you won’t be able to see it on Apple TV+ first
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Apple TV+)
(Image credit: Apple TV+)
Apple TV+isn’t content with being one of thebest streaming services. It looks like it wants to be in the cinema business too. This autumn, the much-anticipated Martin Scorcese movie Killers of the Flower Moon will make its debut not onApple’s streaming service, but in cinemas.
Accordingto the Hollywood Reporter, the film will open for a limited cinema run on 6 October and will have a wider cinema release on 20 October before streaming globally onApple TV+.
Apple isn’t the first streamer to do this;Netflixdid it earlier this year withLuther: The Fallen Sun– a move that may have backfired as the reviews were pretty patchy – and previously did it with another Scorsese film, The Irishman, which didn’t do brilliant box office. So Apple clearly isn’t doing this for the money.
For Apple, it’s not about the cash. It’s about the clout
Don’t expect it to be an easy watch. The story focuses on a particularly bleak and brutal episode in American history, a four-year period in the early 1920s when dozens, and possibly hundreds, of Osage Native Americans were murdered because of the valuable oil deposits that sat beneath the land they owned.
The newly formed FBI was given the job of investigating the murders and bringing the murderers to justice. That proved a tough job: cattleman William Hale, who was eventually convicted of just one killing but was suspected of many more along with his nephews, used bribery and threats of violence to ensure the local townspeople kept their silence. The film is likely to focus not just on the murders but also on the slow but ultimately successful way in which the FBI agents earned locals' trust and persuaded them to speak about the unspeakable.
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