Apple Partners With Paramount On Martin Scorsese’s $200 Million Film Killers of the Flower Moon By Chris Murphy Sometimes, a picture is worth 1000 words and $55 million. Photo: Getty Images for Netflix On Wednesday May 27, Deadline reported that Apple won a fierce bidding war to partner with Paramount Studios on Martin Scorsese’s hotly anticipated, big budget film Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro . While it is not official yet, Apple reportedly beat out other major studios including Universal, MGM, and even Scorsese’s Irishman backer Netflix to o finance and become the creative studio for the film, which puts DiCaprio and De Niro opposite each other for the first time in a meaningful way since This Boy’s Life in 1993. Apple certainly had to play a pretty penny to acquire Killers of the Flower Moon , which reportedly has a budget somewhere ...