Michael Rooker has been chatting about the muted box office returns for Horizon: An American Saga ā Chapter 1. He has things to say.
There’s been a fair amount of conversation over the last few days as to the box office performance of Kevin Costner’s new western, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1.
I’m a huge Kevin Costner fan, and share the disappointment that the first of the planned films grossed $11m over the past weekend in the States. Costner’s famously put a lot of his own money into the films, and with Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 due in August, a repeat of the conversations doesn’t feel too far away.
Michael Rooker is one of those in the cast of the Horizon saga, and he’s been chatting to TMZ about the film’s financial performance. The outlet asked if he felt that audiences had been impacted by the likes of TikTok. It’d be fair to say he does feel that way. “Of course they are. They gotta get over that crap”, he said. “They gotta learn what it’s like to watch real cinema”.
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Heās already said that “it’s real cinema… we’re used to 90 minute moves. Everything’s 90 minutes. Get over that (‘poo’ – Ed). Let’s watch a movie that actually tells a story. Where you learn about the people and grow to like them – or hate them. It’s not all fast, cut, cut, cut.”
With the exception of Oppenheimer, the box office hasn’t been awash with older-skewing films taking lots of money, and Horizon clearly hasn’t changed that. It has been awash with films a lot longer than 90 minutes though, but it’s still not too tricky to see where Michael Rooker is coming from.


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Kevin Costner is set to shoot Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 3 over the coming months, and apparently continues to seek funding for Chapter 4. More news on both of those as we hear it.
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is currently playing in cinemas. Here’s our review.