Apple Original Films today set the Martin Scorsese-directed Critics Choice and Golden Globe Award-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon to begin streaming globally on Apple TV+ beginning Friday, January 12.
This comes after the film turned in a $156 million global box office performance on the film that stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, with a breakout turn from Lily Gladstone.
Apple’s rollout of the film, starting with a Cannes premiere and then a full global theatrical release by Paramount, sets an intriguing template for big budget streamer films going forward.
It hits the streaming service right in the awards season wheelhouse, and it is considered a frontrunner. Killers of the Flower Moon has been honored as the Best Film of the Year by the National Board of Review, received 12 Critics Choice Award nominations and 7 Golden Globe Award nominations, as well as being named to the American Film Institute’s list of Motion Pictures of the Year.
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