Follow-up to Kevin Costner’s $100 million film ‘Horizon’ fetches a worrying $12 million

Box office prospects for one of the summer’s biggest swings are on the horizon.

Kevin Costner’s big budget Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One hit tracking Tuesday, with one major service pricing its national opening at $12 million, give or take. This is not good news for Costner and those who support the independently financed Western, given that it cost $100 million to make before it went to market and was quickly followed by Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2 on August 6.

Warner Bros. is only handling the film domestically and has three weeks left to launch a major marketing campaign, including helping get Costner on board. Yellow stone Fans. Insiders say Costner feels the follow-up isn’t capturing his fan base, which largely resides in the middle of the country.

Paramount’s prequel A quiet place: first day also arrived on Thursday and seems to scare easily Horizon and topped the chart with a decent $40 million. A word of caution for both films: the tracking has been out of place lately, creating additional angst for an already struggling box office.

THE Horizon The film is one of the biggest gambles of the year and is a passion project for the actor who invested $38 million of his own fortune into the project in order to pursue his own vision of the West. Much of the budget was financed through overseas sales, where rights are sold territory by territory.

Horizon Chapter 2 arrives less than two months later Chapter 1, and Costner has two more films planned. He started filming chapter 3but he needs more funds to realize his vision.

“I don’t want to leave everything 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 said The Hollywood Reporterby Scott Feinberg at Cannes, explaining why he invested his own money in the film. “I’m going to keep enough things to keep my family good.” … I wish I had money, I wish I had nice things, but I thought, “This is going to control me if I let it.” »

A quiet place: first daythe first spin-off in the John Krasinski franchise, takes place on the first day of an invasion of mindless alien monsters who will head towards any sound – and kill anything they find.

Lupita Nyong’o stars in the feature film Pig director Michael Sarnoski. A silent place became a surprise hit in 2018 and propelled Krasinski to A-list director status. It opened to $50 million to reach $340.9 million globally, while the 2021 sequel reached $297.372 million, despite pandemic-related challenges. He produces and deserves a story thanks to the script.