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Half two of Kevin Costner’s bold Western epic Horizon: An American Saga will now not be launched in theaters subsequent month.

The information was introduced Wednesday (July 10) by a New Line Cinema spokesperson, who stated in a press release: “Territory Footage and New Line Cinema have determined to not launch Horizon: Chapter 2 on August 16 in an effort to give audiences a higher alternative to find the primary installment of Horizon over the approaching weeks.”

The studio had deliberate an unusually quick back-to-back launch for the 2 Horizon movies. However after the primary chapter had a sluggish begin, incomes $11m throughout the first week towards its $100m price range, the distributor pivoted.

For now, the discharge of Chapter 2 can be marked TBD on the theatrical calendar. The primary Horizon, which opened in theaters on June 28, will land on premium on-demand July 16. No streaming date on Max has been introduced.

The transfer is a humbling acknowledgment that Costner’s huge theatrical gamble for his decades-long ardour undertaking has did not catch on with audiences.

The primary chapter of Horizon, which debuted in Could on the Cannes Movie Competition, value some $100m to make, making its path to profitability extraordinarily difficult if not not possible. Costner put tens of hundreds of thousands of his personal {dollars} into it, and has already begun taking pictures a 3rd installment of what he envisions will in the end be 4 motion pictures.

When requested in Could concerning the motion pictures hitting theaters in fast succession, Costner stated: “The studio needed to attempt that. I knew this was going to come back out pretty rapidly, like each 4 or 5 months. That will have been simpler. However that is one thing they really feel like individuals can bear in mind the primary one and it will possibly tie into the second.”

Costner, who directed, co-wrote and stars within the movies, had been making an attempt to make Horizon for greater than 30 years. Whereas releasing the movie, Costner confirmed his exit from Paramount’s hit drama collection Yellowstone. The last word vacation spot of Horizon, he acknowledged, was all the time going to be on TV.

“They’re going to interrupt this up into 100 items, you understand what I imply?” stated Costner. “After 4 of those, they’re going to have 13, 14 hours of movie and so they’re going to show into 25 hours of TV, and so they’re going to do no matter they’re going to do. That’s simply the best way we dwell in our life however they’ll additionally exist on this type. And that was essential for me, to be sure that occurred. And I used to be the one who paid for it.”

Extra reporting by The Related Press