The second installment in Costner's planned multi-part epic will not be in theaters next month.
Warner Bros. has removed Kevin Costner 's Horizon: An American Story Chapter 2 from the studio's schedule, dropping it from its planned August release date after Chapter 1 proved a disappointment at the box office. Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 and 2 were filmed together, with plans to release them essentially back to back in theaters. The first chapter, which premiered in June, was one of a number of recent big-budget tentpoles that failed to ignite the box office.
"Territory Pictures and New Line Cinema have decided not to release Horizon: Chapter 2 on August 16 in order to give audiences a greater opportunity to discover the first installment of 'Horizon' over the coming weeks, including on PVOD and Max," a New Line Cinema spokesperson told Variety, who broke the story."We thank our exhibition partners for their continued support as moviegoers across the U.S. discover the film in its theatrical run.
Costner has said that he hopes to make four chapters by the time his Horizon experiment is all done. He fronted much of the films' budget himself, presumably thinking that he would make the money back between licensing it for distribution and whatever it turns out to make.
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