Killers Of The Flower Moon will get a surprise wide release this October
Since Dune isn’t using its fall release date, Apple and Martin Scorsese are slotting in
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The release date shuffle continues as Apple announced that Killers Of The Flower Moon will get a wide release this fall. Initially set for a limited theatrical run on October 6, Apple has changed course. The Martin Scorsese-directed historical drama will now open nationwide on October 20. Either emboldened by theatergoers’ acceptance of a three-hour biopic about a horny scientist, Warner Bros.’ bumping Dune: Part Two from the 2023 schedule, or both, Apple says that the film will run only in theaters starting on October 20, but its Apple TV+ launch date is still unknown.
It’s not a moment too soon for theater owners. Currently, October is looking mighty thin regarding new releases from major studios. Sony’s Kraven The Hunter got bumped from October 6 due to the cast being on strike because the studios still won’t pay actors and writers what they’re owed. Meanwhile, Dune: Part Two, originally set to open on November 3, is moving to next March. The thought is that because Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet won’t be promoting the film due to the strike, there’s no point in releasing it yet. Aside from The Creator and Saw X (opening on September 29), The Exorcist: Believer (October 13), and Five Nights At Freddy’s (October 27), Killers Of The Flower Moon will have many screens all to itself.
Apple also released new posters to add to the growing collection of bad images released for the film. Presumably based on the DVD for The Departed, the posters won’t inspire much excitement from moviegoers aside from getting a much-needed respite from that single image of Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone sitting at a dinner table.
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There is nothing worse than a great theatrical movie poster that gets replaced by a lousy DVD cover. Luckily, these are already awful.
I am excited for the world at large to finally learn just how fucking talented Lily Gladstone is.
I’m looking forward to it. Apropos of nothing, I saw The Irishman in theaters during its theatrical run.
Legend has it you’re still in the theater watching it to this day
Spoiler alert: Things don’t go well for the non-white people in this movie.
So you’re saying Trump supporters *will* like it then?
I know very little about the plot but please please please don’t let it be another “White Saviour” story… please?
Oh, it’s definitely not.
It makes white people look about as bad as humanly possible, and is a true story. Basically the FBI was created to stop the carnage since state and local ignored the goings on. Truly nasty stuff.
Yeah as others are saying, it’s definitely not. I read a lot of true crime and disturbing history on a regular basis, and the book is honestly one of the most disturbing true crime/historical nonfiction books I’ve ever read. Like, leaves-you-with-existential-nausea-for-days-after-finishing-the-book levels of disturbing.It involves dozens if not hundreds of systematically orchestrated murders fueled by pure greed, and from what I’ve read, few families among the Osage Nation were untouched by the murders in some way. The trauma haunted them collectively for decades. I’ve been wanting to see this adaptation ever since it was announced, but it will probably be super fucking depressing. If it’s not, it’s not being honest.
Scorsese, DeNiro, long and ponderous — yeah, I’m in.
Seriously though… WTF is the whining bitchiness about the movie posters? You got nothing else to snark about so that’s the best you got? I know the AVClub writing now has to be snarky-assed and too-cool-for-the-world, but FFS.
everyone is making fun of the posters. they’re terrible.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment re AV Club but these are pretty damn uninspiring.
Apple says that the film will run only in theaters starting on October 20, but its Apple TV+ launch date is still unknown.
So, Apple is saying that my subscription of its streaming service is even more useless than I thought and I should cancel it?
This actually makes sense to me, because Scorsese is allowed to promote the movie. Nobody cares what the director of Kraven the Hunter has to say.
buddy i don’t care what aaron taylor-johnson has to say either!