Apple Lands Martin Scorsese Movie Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro
May 27 2020 - 7:09PM
Dow Jones News
By Joe Flint and R.T. Watson
Apple Inc. has nabbed director Martin Scorsese's next film,
"Killers of the Flower Moon," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert
De Niro, according to people familiar with the matter.
The project will be the tech giant's biggest foray into film yet
as it beat out other interested companies, including Netflix Inc.,
which produced and. Scorsese's last film.
The film will be labelled an Apple Original Film, and Paramount
Pictures, which was the original home for the movie, will
distribute the movie theatrically.
Paramount Pictures, a unit of ViacomCBS Inc., had both creative
and financial issues with the movie, whose budget ballooned to more
than $200 million, according to a person with knowledge of the
situation. Script rewrites were done to try and bring costs down
but ultimately failed and the studio balked at the project.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 27, 2020 19:54 ET (23:54 GMT)
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