Actor Kevin Costner got some bad news on Wednesday, as it was revealed that the second part of his two-part Western, “Horizon: An American Saga” was pulled from its August release date. This is also bad for film goers too as the first installment is rooted in a strong, positive, faith-based message. Entertainment like that is rare these days, as most of the fare pushed out of the bowels of Hollywood are nothing but woke turds.
The story behind why the film was pulled is a rather confusing one, according to Kay Smythe from The Daily Caller, who said, “The short version is that Costner seems to have sunk his entire career into creating four “Horizon” films, even launching his own movie studio to support the saga. The first installment bombed so badly in the box office in June that the second film’s release seems suspended indefinitely.”
The film was supposed to come out Aug. 16, according to Variety. But at the time of writing, there is no official theatrical release date on the horizon (sorry — too easy).
“Territory Pictures and New Line Cinema have decided not to release ‘Horizon: Chapter 2’ on August 16 in order 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 Cinema spokesperson told Variety. “We thank our exhibition partners for their continued support as moviegoers across the U.S. discover the film in its theatrical run.”
“Horizon: Chapter 1” will hit streaming services July 16 and I am kind of excited about it. Though part of me sees this situation as karma for Costner’s abandonment of “Yellowstone” before its conclusion, the trailer for “Horizon” is pretty epic. I still think it is stupid to release a project like this during the summer though.
Here’s a trailer for the first installment of the film series:
Sources speaking with entertainment publication Variety said that the decision to change the release date for the second movie was mutual. Now, it’s likely things will actually work out a bit better this way, it’s still not good optics.
“Costner recently claimed he sunk $38 million of his own money into the first movie. The overall budget was $100 million, but only brought in $11 million on its opening weekend. And even then, it ranked third. Hopefully the move to streaming will help. It’s the only way fans of “Yellowstone” might forgive him for letting us down … and even then, I doubt it,” Smythe wrote.
At the end of the day, we need more filmmakers to take chances and make real, raw films that also contain a positive spin on Christianity and conservative values in order to combat the propaganda that is being pushed by the radical left in Hollywood.
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Progressives have successfully utilized film and television to push their ideology for decades, slowly, but surely getting people to accept more and more radical beliefs — we call this moving the Overton Window — which goes hand-in-hand with the garbage being poured into the brains of children in public schools and universities.
If we don’t oppose this sort of stuff with our own well told stories, it’s going to get worse.