Apple Studios Opts for a Wide Theatrical Release Only for KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON This October

Apple studios has announced that instead of a limited release or a dual theater and streaming release, they will be moving forward with a world wide theatrical release for the highly anticipated Martin Scorsese-directed film, Killers of the Flower Moon. Based on David Grann’s book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, the movie is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the film as Ernest Burkhart, and he is joined by Lily Gladstone as Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest, who is the nephew of a powerful local rancher, played by Robert De Niro. Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) and  Jesse Plemons (Antlers) also star in the movie. The synopsis reads:

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Osage Indians were driven onto a presumed worthless expanse of land in northeastern Oklahoma. But their territory turned out to be atop one of the largest oil deposits in the United States; to obtain that oil, prospectors were required to pay the tribe for leases and royalties. By the 1920s, the members of Osage Nation had become the wealthiest people per capita in the world. And then the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.

Killers of the Flower Moon will hit theaters on October 20th, with a streaming debut on Apple TV+ to follow at an undetermined date.