Does it 'cost' anything to stream a movie (photos, anything Mac) from a device to an Apple TV?

I am wondering if it 'costs' anything KBs, MBs, GBs to stream content from an Apple device to Apple TV?

Not really.
I assume you are talking Airplay from iPhone/iPad, or playback from itunes on a computer.
All devices need to be on the local network with Home Sharing enabled.  You presumably have a home router which provides wired and wifi connections as needed.
Playing from a computer iTunes or iOS device using Airplay will use at least the size of the movie on the Local network but that should be free.  The movie is not transmitted out to the internet and back to teh AppleTV - it's mostly local.
What is needed for any protected iTunes store content is a brief internet authorisation from iTunes servers - this will be a few MB at most I would think, if that.
Things that use the internet:
Browsing itunes store menus on AppleTV and trailers
Playing previous purchases from the cloud (rather than via iTunes on a computer under Computers)
YouTube/Vimeo etc
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