Kevin Costner’s Box Office Dud ‘Horizon’ Quietly Debuts On Netflix

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1—Kevin Costner’s summer box office flop—has quietly been added to Netflix.

Horizon made its debut in theaters on June 28 before making a quick pivot to digital streaming via premium video on demand on July 16.

The first of four planned Horizon films, the logline for the film saga reads, “Chronicles a multi-faceted, 15-year span of pre-and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West.”

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Costner stars, directs and is a co-writer of the Horizon saga. Chapter 1 ended its theatrical run in August with a worldwide box office tally of $31 million, according to The Numbers.

The box office tracker said that Chapter 1 had a production budget of $50 million before prints and advertising, but The Hollywood Reporter reported that Horizon 1 had $100 million before P&A.

THR also reported that the former Yellowstone star spent $38 million of his own money to partially finance Horizon and two private investors footed the rest of the production bill.

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According to Netflix, Horizon made its debut on the streaming service Monday. You must be a Netflix subscriber to watch Horizon on the platform.

Netflix offers three subscription plans. A standard ad-based plan is $6.99 per month for two supported devices, while an ad-free plan is $15.49 per month for two supported devices. Netflix’s premium plan is $22.99 per month for four supported devices.

Since Horizon was distributed in theaters by Warners Bros. subsidiary New Line Cinema, the film made its streaming video on demand debut on the Warner Bros. Discovery platform Max on Aug. 23.

Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2’ Is Still Awaiting A Release Date

While Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 made its debut on Netflix on Monday, the fate of the second chapter of Kevin Costner’s Western saga remains up in the air.

In light of the poor box office performance of Horizon 1 at the box office, Costner’s production company Territory Pictures and distributor New Line Cinema pulled Horizon 2 from its mid-August release date.

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“Territory Pictures and New Line Cinema have decided not to release Horizon: Chapter 2 on August 16 to give audiences a greater opportunity to discover the first installment of Horizon over the coming weeks, including on PVOD and Max,” a New Line spokesperson said (via The Hollywood Reporter,). “We thank our exhibition partners for their continued support as moviegoers across the U.S. discover the film in its theatrical run.”

Even though its release date was in limbo, a world premiere for Horizon 2 was held at the Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 7. Much like the reviews for Horizon 1, though, reviews out of Venice were poor for Horizon 2.

Kevin Costner’s Horizon 1, which also stars Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Michael Rooker and Danny Huston, is streaming on Netflix.

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