Kevin Costner.Warner Bros; Mark Von Holden/Variety via Getty Images; iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BIKevin Costner's "Horizon" was a bust at the box office, making only $11 million in its first weekend.Costner invested over $38 million in the movie and paid for its marketing himself. "Yellowstone" fans may not have been enough to help "Horizon" beat out other big draws in theaters.Kevin Costner is the latest star to be reminded that passion projects don't always yield big box-office returns.The former "Yellowstone" actor quite literally bet the ranch on "Horizon: An American Saga," mortgaging his property in Santa Barbara and investing $38 million of his own money into the three-hour film, which is intended to be the first in a four-part series about Western expansion before and after the Civil War.

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  • Kevin Costner's 'Horizon: An American Saga' underperforms at box office
    Horizon is an epic of the Old West, featuring four connecting storylines featuring settlers on the Santa Fe trail, outlaws in Montana and Wyoming, and a U.S. army base battling Apache warriors in ...
    07/1/2024 - 10:45 am | View Link
  • Kevin Costner mortgaged his home and put $38 million of his own money into 'Horizon.' Box-office numbers suggest this was a terrible idea.
    Kevin Costner's "Horizon" took in a lackluster $11 million at the box office. His gambit to leave the "Yellowstone" franchise may have been ill-advised.
    07/1/2024 - 8:49 am | View Link
  • Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon’ is a giant box office disaster — and he mortgaged his land to pay for it
    Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1,” the Western movie Kevin Costner directed, co-wrote and stars in, tanked at the box office last weekend, grossing a paltry $11 million.
    07/1/2024 - 4:15 am | View Link
  • Kevin Costner’s Passion Project ‘Horizon’ Bombs on its Opening Weekend
    An American Saga—Chapter One, tanked at the North American box office over the weekend. It’s bad news for the forthcoming three installments, the next of which hits theaters on August 16. The first ...
    07/1/2024 - 3:44 am | View Link
  • Kevin Costner Knew Before ‘Horizon' Flopped at the Box Office That Putting ‘So Much Pressure' on Opening Weekend Gross Would Lead to Disappointment
    Kevin Costner’s “Horizon” got off to a dismal start at the box office with $11 million, an undisputed misfire considering the budget was in the $100 million range for Western epic. Costner said he ...
    07/1/2024 - 3:26 am | View Link
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