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Belloni: Costner wants a Late 2023 theatrical release for 100 million budget Horizon, WB wont commit offered it to Paramount who declined
It’s true that Costner wasn’t bailing on Yellowstone to lounge in Montecito. His contract carved out the time last year to focus on Horizon, the first of a planned series of independently-financed Civil War-era Western films that Costner is co-writing, producing, directing, and starring in. The first movie, budgeted at more than $100 million, and shot last year, is still awaiting a release date from Warner Bros., which invested a small amount of money in exchange for domestic distribution rights. I’m told that Costner recently showed about 30 or 40 minutes of footage to Warner Bros. Discovery C.E.O. David Zaslav (Costner is buds with Zaz and attended his recent birthday dinner at Mr. Chow) and Warners film chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, and he’s been pushing for a late 2023 release. But Warners already has a packed Q4. Dune: Part Two, Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka prequel, and Aquaman and the Last Kingdom are already scheduled, so the studio hasn’t been willing—or even able, given its financial issues—to add Horizon to the ’23 slate.
Belloni: Costner wants a Late 2023 theatrical release for 100 million budget Horizon, WB wont commit offered it to Paramount who declined Feb 20, 20:21
Has screened 30 to 40 minutes to the Zas Feb 20, 20:23