Kevin Costner too ambitious with Horizon ?
The project Horizon From Kevin Costner is probably one of the craziest of recent years. The actor and director, in particular Dancing with Wolves (1990)showed an unbridled ambition to tell, in his own way, a part of American history (in a period of 15 years before and after the Civil War). The filmmaker wanted to propose a fresco that could be distributed over several films. To date, four feature films have been discussed. Two were filmed at the same time, and will be released two months apart (3 July and 11 September). And even before the release of the first work, Kevin Costner began filming the third chapter, while the fourth has not yet entered production. Finally, let’s remember that for the first film, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1Kevin Costner proposed a 3-hour edit.
This type of project is more than a rarity in Hollywood today. And we wonder how it could have been validated. Because even though, for the first film HorizonKevin Costner had to put up $50 million of his own money a total budget of $100 million, the risk remains high. In case of failure of the first work, the second already dated one would go straight to the wall, and what about the third in recovery and then the fourth?
The first disastrous figures at the American box office
What we expected happened with the first results at the American box office, which were anything but good. For its first weekend, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 he did not collect that 11 million dollars in the North American market. However, the feature film was released in 3,334 theaters (according to Variety). But the public favored this weekend of June 29-30, 2024 Vice versa 2which after three weeks of operation has raised $57 million in additional revenue, and In silence: day 1which raised 53 million. With these disastrous beginnings, this first chapter ofHorizon It should therefore not recover its costs unless a miracle occurs thanks to the foreign market.
For comparison, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which was also a failure for Warner Bros., opened to $26 million at the U.S. box office during its first weekend. For the next one, only $11 million was added to the revenue. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 You too even worse. And even if the budgets of the two films are not the same (168 million dollars for Furiosa), the financial failure remains for Kevin Costner.
In another analysis article by VarietyAmerican media announces the color of the future, explaining itHorizon “has the potential to be not only a financial crash, but also the kind of crash that unfolds in slow motion and extends for months“. Because chapter 3 remains in preparation, and”now it’s about building a train when it’s already derailing“…
Find other box office figures here, as well as our review ofHorizon: An American Sagawhich will be released in France on July 3rd.
Source: Cine Serie
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