Releasing both movies within two months of each other next summer.
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Wish Costner had offered this to Bruce Broughton, or James Newton Howard (who did a killer score to Wyatt Earp). Still, it ain't a Zimmer Drone.AndyDursin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:31 pm Shame it's John Debney scoring this but what can you do, pickings are slim.
True. But I re-watched The Passion again last year, and I have to say the score is the weakest link in that movie. As a composer he is technically up to snuff, but I feel he lacks the artistry and invention of the truly great composers. (Plus, modeling the style of The Passion's score on Peter Gabriel's The Last Temptation of Christ didn't help).Monterey Jack wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:42 pmWish Costner had offered this to Bruce Broughton, or James Newton Howard (who did a killer score to Wyatt Earp). Still, it ain't a Zimmer Drone.AndyDursin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:31 pm Shame it's John Debney scoring this but what can you do, pickings are slim.
Kevin Costner has been in the saddle long enough to know the difference between a big-screen feature Western like Dances With Wolves, a miniseries like Hatfields & McCoys or a longform like Yellowstone. All those projects have done well by him and he’s done well by them. His connection to the quintessential Americana genre and the rugged lands it calls home is indubitable. So why is his sprawling new frontier tale, Horizon: An American Saga, such a clumsy slog? It plays like a limited series overhauled as a movie, but more like a hasty rough cut than a release ready for any format.
Running a taxing three hours, this first part of a quartet of films is littered with inessential scenes and characters that go nowhere, taking far too long to connect its messy plot threads. Warner Bros. will release Chapter One in U.S. theaters June 28, with Chapter Two following on August 16 and Chapter Three reportedly going into production. A vigorous montage closes the first part with action-packed snippets from the next installment, adding to the nagging sense that we’re watching episodic TV that lost its way.
Kevin Costner’s $100M ‘Horizon’ Movie Tracking for Worrisome $12M Domestic Opening
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The box office prospects for one of the summer’s biggest swings have appeared on the horizon.
Kevin Costner‘s big-budget Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter One hit tracking on Tuesday, with one major service putting its domestic opening at $12 million, give or take. That’s not great news for Costner and those backing the independently financed Western, considering it cost $100 million to make before marketing and is being followed quickly by Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2 on Aug 6.
Warner Bros. is only handling the film domestically, and has three weeks left to make a major marketing push, including helping Costner rally Yellowstone fans. Insiders say Costner believes that tracking isn’t capturing his fan base, which largely resides in the middle of the country.
Paramount’s prequel A Quiet Place: Day One also came on tracking Thursday, and looks to easily scare off Horizon and top the chart with a decent $40 million. One caveat for both films: Tracking has been off its game of late, creating additional angst for an already troubled box office.
The Horizon film is among the biggest gambles of the year, and is a passion project for the actor who put $38 million of his own wealth into the project to pursue his own vision of the West. A large chunk of the budget was financed through foreign sales, whereby rights are sold off territory by territory.
izon: Chapter 2 arrives less than two months after Chapter 1, and Costner has two more films planned. He has started filming on Chapter 3, but needs more funds to complete his vision.
“I don’t want to let this pile of things I have — whether it’s money, whether it’s [possessions] — be so important to me that I can’t think about what I want to do,” Costner told The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg at Cannes, explaining why he put his own money into the movie. “I’m going to keep enough things that my family’s going to be good. … I’d like to have money, I’d like to have nice things, but I thought to myself, ‘That’s going to control me if I let it.’”