Just like Francis Ford Coppola and “Megalopolis,” it’s now being reported that Kevin Costner is footing the bill for marketing costs on “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1.”
This was all part of the deal Costner had with Warner Bros if they were to take on theatrical distribution. Last we heard, Costner put up $38M of his own money to finance the $115M film, and that’s not counting the second one, being released in August, also three hours, which is said to have cost a little less ($80M).
For the time being, the first film is off to a rocky start at the box office. Costner’s Civil War epic could only muster up $3M on Friday and it might actually have a 3-day opening weekend below $10M.
While James L. Brooks teased last year that "we'll soon be seeing" Jack Nicholson, 89, act again, and that he was "reading scripts," that idea has now been shut down by his close friend Michael Douglas, 82.