Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon’ Film Is a Flop — and He’s ‘Taking the News Pretty Hard’

Kevin Costner took a immense bet investing $38 cardinal of his ain money into Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, and it did not salary off.

On July 10, New Line Cinema announced that nan 2nd installment of his pricey occidental epic won’t beryllium hitting theaters successful August arsenic planned. The first section of nan four-part franchise reportedly costs $100 cardinal to make but earned only an estimated $11 cardinal domestically connected its opening play after receiving dismal reviews from critics.

The BBC’s Nicholas Barber called Kevin’s passion task a “three-hour slog … afloat of stultifying slow speech scenes,” while Entertainment Weekly’s Jordan Hoffman branded it “dull arsenic dirt.”

The New York Times’ Manohla Dargis couldn’t thief but announcement that “no 1 seems to cognize really to spit tobacco, and to judge from nan women’s cleanable updos and tidy eyebrows, everyone connected this frontier has a stylist successful tow.”

Though New Line insisted that their determination to hold nan merchandise of nan 2nd movie was to let audiences a chance to observe nan first one, Kevin, 69, is worried that nan sequel and its consequent follow-ups mightiness ne'er extremity up seeing nan ray of day, says a source.

“He really believed successful these movies, still does, and is taking nan news beautiful hard.”