Academy Award-winning visionary filmmaker Kevin Costner directs New Line Cinema’s vast “Horizon: An American Saga” Chapters One and Two, a multi-faceted chronicle covering the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West. A story of America too big for one film, this true cinematic event also stars Costner, who co-writes with Jon Baird (“The Explorers Guild”) and produces through his Territory Pictures.
In the great tradition of Warner Bros. Pictures’ iconic Westerns, “Horizon: An American Saga” explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Costner’s ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America…
Costner returns to directing for the first time since his 2003 critically acclaimed hit “Open Range,” and revisits Civil War-era America, the setting for his 1990 blockbuster and directorial debut, “Dances with Wolves,” which won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. He produces alongside Howard Kaplan and Mark Gillard, with Danny Peykoff, Robert Scannell, Armyan Bernstein, Charlie Lyons, Barry Berg and Rod Lake executive producing.
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Yeah, I watched one of more professional channels about cinematography and they pretty much summed it up - should've been a miniseries.
But you can't satisfy your ego with tv/streaming series. No one would called that your magnum opus. But if you chop it into four 3-4 hour movies. Oh yeah, you can now stroke your ego dick.
You can't show a miniseries at Cannes, can you? (I literally don't know).
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The second of Kevin Costner’s planned four-film western “Horizon: An American Saga” won’t be arriving in cinemas next month after all.
THR reports that the film is being pulled from the release calendar for now following the disastrous theatrical debut last month of “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1”.
A new date has yet to be announced for the sequel, but a theatrical release is still intended for the title.
The aim of the delay is to allow more time to grow the audience for the first film which cost $100 million to produce.
Part of the attempt to build the audience will be allowing an early premium VOD release with the film to debut at home on July 16th in addition to still being available in cinemas.
Later in the year it’s expected to come to Max but no premiere date for it on that service has yet been announced.
“Horizon: Chapter 1” opened to just $11 million over the June 28th-30th weekend, and has been hampered by a poor B- CinemaScore and mixed/poor reviews.
Its second weekend box-office fell 51% to $5.4 million. It sits at a domestic total of $22 million and an overseas total of less than $3 million.
Chapter 2 likewise cost roughly $100 million to make. Costner’s team indicated last week that he intends to resume shooting Chapter 3 in August.
The audience isn’t showing up, especially many of his under-45-year-old “Yellowstone” fans, as the film’s audience is skewing notably older.
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