Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Summary
A major change forHorizon : An American Saga - Chapter 2belies a mistake made by Kevin Costner . Costner , who recently departed the cast of the Taylor Sheridan neo - westerly seriesYellowstone , is the Centennial State - author , director , and star of the westerly movie franchise , which is intended to span four installments . The monolithic ensemble cast of the task also includes Sienna Miller , Sam Worthington , Michael Rooker , Danny Huston , Jena Malone , Abbey Lee , Jamie Campbell Bower , Giovanni Ribisi , Will Patton , Luke Wilson , Ella Hunt , and Isabelle Fuhrman .
Between them , the first two motion-picture show have a combine production budget of $ 100 million , with more than $ 20 million of that total come from Costner himself . TheupcomingHorizon : An American Saga - Chapter 2is the only other completed installment consider the fact thatChapter 3is in yield andChapter 4is in developing . However , the movie has been removed from the schedulefollowing the firing ofChapter 1on June 28 . The original plan was for the sequel to premiere just seven workweek by and by , on August 16 .
The unsatisfying box seat office returns and critic reviews for Horizon : An American Saga prove that Kevin Costner chose the haywire data format for his series .
Horizon: An American Saga 2 Releasing So Soon After Chapter 1 Was Always A Bad Idea
The Market Was Already Oversaturated With The Kevin Costner Franchise
This swift cancellation following theHorizon : An American Saga- Chapter 1releasewas perhaps inevitable . There are quite a few reasons thatreleasing the first two movies so close together did not make sense . For one thing , the trace pair of sequels are both incomplete , meaning that the dealership would be straightaway ineffectual to keep up a coherent firing pattern . There is also precedent for similar flick to fail at the box office . In fact , something extremely airless to this billet already happen in 1994 when the old Kevin Costner WesternWyatt Earppremiered just six months afterTombstone .
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 is a western drama film directed by Kevin Costner. Broken into two parts, Horizon explores the periods before and after the American Civil War, with the reconstruction and new era for Western Expansion.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score
Tombstone(1993 )
December 25 , 1993
$ 25 million
$ 73.2 million
73 %
94 %
Wyatt Earp(1994 )
June 24 , 1994
$ 63 million
$ 56 million
32 %
61 %
The earlier motion-picture show have the same grapheme , a small budget , a forgetful runtime , and a strong vital reception , allow potent competition for the 1994 title . It is in tumid part credit for the fiscal failure ofKevin Costner’sWyatt Earp , which only earned $ 55.9 million against its $ 63 million budget . Another , more late exercise of a similar liberation also shows that long delays can pay dividend , asMaXXXine , the two - years - later sequel to 2022’sXandPearl , justearned the substantial possibility weekend of the trilogyin bitchiness of the fact that it open in fewer dramatics than either previous installment .
Horizon: An American Saga’s Box Office Made A Chapter 2 Delay Inevitable
Horizon Has Fallen Far Short Of Its Production Budget
The underwhelming box office ofHorizon : An American Saga - Chapter 1was probable another immense factor in this time lag . Presuming its production budget was roughly one-half of the picture show ' combine damage tag , it belike needs to make $ 100 million or more to end up in the blackness . However , it opened to $ 11 million andhas onlyearned roughly $ 23.4 million overallat the time of writing . It is an uttermost unlikeliness that the movie will come anywhere closely to being profitable by the oddment of its run .
Theaters in the main keep one-half of ticket sales , meaning that movies need to earn back twice their production budget so as to break even , without factor in their marketing costs .
This release wait is probably meant to allow consultation clock time to catch up withChapter 1on VOD and annul the sequel following in its fiscal footstep . If the release had gone on as be after , audiences would only have been given mere hebdomad to catch up with the first three - minute movie . BecauseChapter 2is a direct good continuation , itlikely would n’t have been invite to newcomers , intend that its built - in audience would have been quite small .
Will Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2 Be Successful After The Delay?
The Odds Are Stacked Against The Upcoming Kevin Costner Western
It is possible that this theatrical delay will pay off as think , allowing more audiences to find the movie and thus increase general interestin the sequel during its eventual release . This may particularly be the font for theYellowstoneaudience , who are used to consider Kevin Costner on their screenland at home and may not have felt encouraged to stake out to the theatre of operations for the first picture show . However , Horizon : An American Saga - Chapter 1reviewsmay provide a major rationality why this gambit still wo n’t work .
It seems unlikely that the subsequence could be such a immense melioration
Although audiences have given it a solidly reinvigorated score of 71 % on Rotten Tomatoes , critics have largely been negative , giving it an official splat on the critique collector weapons platform with a 48 % account . IfHorizon : An American Saga - Chapter 2significantly improve on the original movie ’s grudge , that could leave a major enticement for nervous audience . However , given the fact that it features the same production team asChapter 1 , it seems unlikely that the sequel could be such a vast betterment .
Horizon : An American Saga - Chapter 2 is a westerly drama film directed by Kevin Costner . split up into two parts , Horizon search the periods before and after the American Civil War , with the reconstructive memory and Modern era for Western Expansion .
