For all the lovers of good cinema, today is a day of celebration, as we not only know when the latest film by Christopher Nolan, Napoleon, will be released on streaming and Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Napoleon, but we have also been given the release date for the great contender for the 2023 Oscar, The Moon Assassins, on our television.
The Martin Scorsese crime film, originally titled Killers of the Flower Moon, will be available for streaming on Apple TV+ on January 12th.
The movie premiered in theaters for the first time last October and digitally debuted in December as part of Apple’s collaboration with Paramount.
What is Killers of the Flower Moon about
Killers of the Flower Moon, by Scorsese (based on the novel by David Grann), is a three and a half hour epic that follows a series of murders of the Osage people in 1920s Oklahoma, following the discovery of oil on tribal lands.
The film stars Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, and Robert De Niro, and so far has received waves of positive reviews from critics and audiences.
The theatrical release of The Moon Assassins is part of a growing trend by streaming services to first release in theaters and then on platforms.
Other Apple projects follow a similar path, like Napoleon (which premiered in theaters on November 22nd) and the upcoming Argylle, which arrives in theaters on February 2nd.
Meanwhile, other rival streaming companies are also experimenting. For example, Disney has announced that Turning Red, Soul and Luca, three movies released on Disney Plus during the pandemic, will be screened in theaters in 2024.
Netflix also shook things up last year when they released the movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery in theaters before adding it to their streaming platform.
