Kevin Costner Western ‘Horizon’ in France Sale: Cannes

Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1, the Western epic directed by and starring Kevin Costner, solely debuts on the Cannes Movie Competition 2024 on Sunday. However the film and the second a part of the story have already offered to the nation the place Chapter 1 will get its world premiere in an out-of-competition slot.

Metropolitan FilmExport will distribute the old-school Western from Warner Bros. in France, it emerged on Thursday. Daniel Baur’s K5 Worldwide is dealing with the worldwide rights on the Cannes movie market.

Warner Bros. is betting massive on Horizon, releasing the primary entry in Costner’s multi-film frontier epic on June  28 throughout North America, adopted by Chapter 2 on Aug. 16. The advertising group behind Barbie believes that, for the home market, two $100  million Westerns from the star of Yellowstone are pretty much as good as cash within the financial institution. 

And whereas the Outdated West has usually been a tricky promote for worldwide consumers and audiences in overseas markets, Horizon has obtained a lot curiosity. “There’s a scarcity of huge, $100  million initiatives on the unbiased market, and with fewer studio releases this summer time due to the strike, [international] distributors are excited to haven’t one however two motion pictures of this dimension out there,” Baur not too long ago instructed THR. 

Provided that with a really massive exception within the type of Costner’s 1990 blockbuster Dances With Wolves — which earned some $424 million globally, greater than half of it outdoors North America — the worldwide field workplace for conventional Hollywood Westerns has usually been disappointing, the trade is intently following the efficiency of Horizon.