Killers of the Flower Moon has joined a rare group of Martin Scorsese movies as it passes an important box office milestone. The movie, which is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by David Grann, is set in 1920s Oklahoma and follows the murders of members of the Osage nation after oil is discovered on their land. The cast of the movie includes frequent Scorsese collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, as well as Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, Brendan Fraser, and John Lithgow.
Per Deadline, the Killers of the Flower Moon box office has earned $102.1 million worldwide as of Thursday. This makes it only the ninth of Scorsese’s 26 narrative features to pass the $100 million milestone. The previous movies to have done so were 1991’s Cape Fear ($182.2 million), 1995’s Casino ($110.4 million), 2002’s Gangs of New York ($183.1 million), 2004’s The Aviator ($208.4 million), 2006’s The Departed ($289.7 million), 2010’s Shutter Island ($299.5 million), 2011’s Hugo ($180 million), and 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street ($389.8 million).
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