Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon’ Sparks Sprawling Legal Battle
- Kevin Costner's production company Horizon Series and New Line Cinema entered a legal dispute in 2024 over co-financing for the film Horizon: An American Saga.
- The dispute arose because Horizon Series allegedly failed to pay its financing share, leading New Line to claim it covered extra costs and City National Bank to demand more repayment.
- The first installment, a $100 million Western released in June 2024, underperformed with a $12 million opening weekend and a total of about $38 million earned.
- Costner deferred his salary and invested his own money, even mortgaging a Santa Barbara property, while describing needing billionaires to support the multi-part project on a 2023 podcast.
- The legal and financial standoff has stalled production on subsequent chapters, leaving the franchise's future uncertain with Chapter 2's release and Chapters 3 and 4 in doubt.
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