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Exclusive: Ari Aster’s new A24 film Eddington has rounded out its cast with four additions: William Belleau (Killers of the Flower Moon), Cameron Mann (Mare of Easttown), Matt Gomez Hidaka (Silo), and Amélie Hoeferle (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes).

The actors join a stacked ensemble led by Joaquin Phoenix, who reteams with Aster and A24 following their collaboration on surreal epic Beau Is Afraid, as previously reported. Additional cast includes Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, and Clifton Collins Jr.

While the film’s plot is being guarded, it’s been discussed as a Western. Aster is directing from his own script and producing alongside Lars Knudsen under their Square Peg banner. Production on the film kicked off earlier this month.

Most recently seen playing Henry Roan, the first husband of Lily Gladstone’s Mollie, in Martin Scorsese’s...

William King Hale spent nearly two decades in Leavenworth Penitentiary after being convicted of first-degree murder in 1929. He did labor on a prison farm and in the tuberculosis ward. Hale was paroled in 1947, 18 years into his life sentence. After his release, he moved to Montana and worked as a cowboy and dishwasher because he was banned from returning to Oklahoma. Despite his likely involvement in multiple murders, Hale was only convicted for the murder of Henry Roan. He was never convicted for killing more Osage Natives. He died in a nursing home in Phoenix in 1962 at the age of 87, without any of the wealth he once had.

Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon explores the Osage murders of the 1920s and the primary culprit William King Hale, but little information is given about what happened to Robert De Niro's character after. As depicted in the movie, Hale...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon depicts the devastating consequences of the murders, theft, and mistreatment suffered by the Osage Nation, as they finally attain justice. William King Hale's plan involved killing Mollie Burkhart's entire family in order to inherit their headrights, which represented their wealth. Hale was able to carry out his crimes due to his deceptive nature and influence within the community. Ernest Burkhart's decision to testify against his uncle stemmed from being backed into a corner and realizing that his uncle did not care about the consequences of their actions. The Osage Nation trusted Hale and Ernest, and their crimes were a profound betrayal to the community.

Killers of the Flower Moon’s ending is a devastating one. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon sees the Osage Nation getting justice after years of murders,...

The article contains spoilers for "Killers of the Flower Moon."

Plenty of people have thought about spanking Leonardo DiCaprio. That's just a fact. And we're not here to kink shame. But only one person was able to make that a reality, at least on the big screen, and that's Robert De Niro.

In Martin Scorsese's stirring drama "Killers of the Flower Moon," the legendary "Taxi Driver" star plays the sinister and scheming King Willam Hale, who has been unfolding a plot to take land and money from the people of the Osage nation by marrying wealthy members of the community and methodically killing them off. As part of this plan, he recruits his nephew Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio) to marry Mollie Kyle, an Osage woman of means. But beyond that, Hale also gets Burkhart involved in other parts of his plan. One such task finds Hale ordering Ernest to murder Henry Roan,...

The following piece contains spoilers about “Killers of the Flower Moon”

When Cara Jade Myers found out she was cast in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” after multiple auditions and then almost a year of production delays forced by the coronavirus pandemic, she couldn’t help but get emotional.

“They kept talking. But I didn’t hear anything after that. I was just crying and nodding my head and smiling,” the actress, who is a member of the Kiowa and Wichita tribes, tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview.

Based on the book by David Grann, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is an epic about American greed and the genocide of the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. The investigation into the murders – at least 60 tribal members died during the so-called Reign of Terror, although the actual number of deaths could be in the hundreds – led to...

Tom White, the key investigator in the Osage murder case, became a warden of Leavenworth Prison after the investigation. White was eventually transferred to La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution until his retirement in 1951. Tom White passed away on December 21, 1971, at the age of 90, leaving behind a legacy of quietly and calmly seeking justice for the Osage people.

Killers of the Flower Moon introduced the audience to Tom White (Jesse Plemons), who was key in the investigation of the Osage murders, and his story continued after the events of the movie. Directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon takes viewers to Oklahoma, in 1918, to meet Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), the nephew of William “King” Hale (Robert De Niro), the benefactor of the Osage people who actually looked to steal their wealth.

Bill Hale manipulated Ernest to help...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Killers of the Flower Moon.Killers of the Flower Moon is a long-anticipated crime epic directed by the legendary Martin Scorsese, an over-three-hour-long movie that covers the real story behind the Osage Nation murders that occurred in the 1920s and how they are linked to the birth of the FBI, the rise of oil exploration, and America's long history of structural racism.

While Killers of the Flower Moon's final runtime might scare off unsuspecting viewers, it's actually surprising how Scorsese managed to cram so much information in a single feature film. Over a century after the events depicted in the film, the memory of the Osage murders remains as relevant as ever in a contemporary world that didn't learn with its past.

How Faithful Is Killers of the Flower Moon to Its Source Material?

Killers of the Flower Moon is an adaptation of...

The following post contains spoilers about "Killers of the Flower Moon."

The horrors inflicted upon the Osage people during a string of ghastly murders throughout the 1920s are among the worst atrocities ever committed against Indigenous Americans. Anyone familiar with U.S. history during the Old West will know that's saying a lot. Based upon the 2017 book by David Grann, director Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" uncovers the systematic infiltration of nefarious white men into the lives and affairs of the Indigenous Osage Nation after vast deposits of oil were found on their land. The enormous wealth the Osage possessed led to a string of mysterious deaths that were always deemed accidental or never investigated in the first place. 

As the murders piled up, men like Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Bill Smith (Jason Isbell) married into Osage families and waited patiently for their share of the...

On a November evening in 2019, Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese and about a dozen members of his production team for Killers of the Flower Moon settled into folding chairs in a wood-paneled community hall in the Osage Nation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

They had flown more than 1,300 miles after members of the tribe’s Grayhorse community wrote to Scorsese to express their concerns that he would be the next in a long line of white Hollywood filmmakers to distort Indigenous history on the big screen.

Scorsese was about three years into working...

Bad guys tend to have a good time at the Oscars. From Christoph Waltz‘s 2010 “Inglourious Basterds” win for Best Supporting Actor to Anthony Hopkins‘ iconic 1992 Best Actor win for “The Silence of the Lambs,” you can always count on Oscar voters to take notice of a villain.

While those two examples are fictional, some actors have also had Oscar luck by playing real-life killers. For example, Charlize Theron won for playing Aileen Wuornos. Wuornos murdered seven men between 1989 and 1990 while she was a prostitute in Florida. She shot and robbed the seven men, who Wuornos claimed were clients who had either raped or attempted to rape, claiming self-defense. However, she was sentenced to death and executed in 2002 for six of the murders. Theron took home the Best Actress Oscar in 2004 for her transformative performance as the killer in “Monster.”

Ralph Fiennes also played a real-life killer in his role...