Kevin Costner's career has noticed a few staggering peaks and stunning low valleys, but we have never seen the legendary film stars and multiple Oscar winners down and almost as it is now. Newly published Hollywood reporter The exhibition has a light not only Costner's strong behavior on the "YellowOlston" setBut also his humiliating failure to secure funding to complete his draft-four-part West EP "Horizon: American Saga" (the first entrance was moving to the box office, which left the finished second film without a distributor) and his alleged violation of the security protocols when he forced him. Costner's reputation seems to be hard to catch with him now that he is no longer a banking film Starwar and is a personal non -grave in the wildly popular Yellowlotiston Universe (who revived his career in the 2010's). The article on Thr Thr, painted a dark image, but becomes inappropriate cruel and pure Achistoric when its author cites "Waterworld" as a flop that began the fall of Costner from the commercial grace.

Here's the problem with this claim: "Waterworld" was not a flop.

According to Thr's story, when "Waterworld" hit theaters on July 28, 1995, it soon "became one of the biggest apostles of ... Good, the" Heavenly Gate "." Michael Fimino's catastrophic western flop A call to report to Costner's debut, "Dance with Wolves"-What, with the frightening time of three hours of work and connection to what was considered a dead genre, was sentenced to pre-release as "Kevin's Gate". Many Crowe was wasted when the film became a hit and Costner won the Academy Academy of Best Picture and Best Director. Then, five years later, the vast-budget "Waterworld" was made as a "fisherman". It was something else.

As a completely original post-apocalyptic scientific flick, "Waterworld" was a huge commercial risk for universal images. Although Costner has just stumbled like the guidance of The expensive western biopic of Lawrence Casdan "Wyatt Erp", He could survive the blow speed after his hits in 1987-1993. Factor that he again faced the director "Robin Hood: Prince of the thieves", Kevin Reynolds, and the studio could not say no-way if the budget was frighteningly high $ 100 million.

In front of the main photo, Steven Spielberg urged Costner and Reynolds not to make open water film in the Pacific Ocean. The director of Jaws well knew the potential for the budget budget for counting the hospitality of Mother Nature, but the film duo was dead for making a kind of oceanic epic and dances forward (shooting in artificial seawater indoors near the coast of Hawaii). So it started Waterworld nightmare, Cameras teams were often pushed out of the waves position, false time stretching 50-plus days during the schedule and the slavery colony set partly sinking. After all, the final budget of the film is estimated to be somewhere in the $ 175 million neighborhood, which means it will have to make about $ 350 worldwide to sniff the profitability.

Waterworld received mainly mixed reviews from the nation's biggest critics. Only Chicago's reader Athonate Rosenbaum get closer to the film of the film but David Ansen on Newsweek knocked out Riva. The film opened up for healthy if a non -spectacular $ 21 million domestic and used $ 264 million globally. The film was clear in red, but this was far from the "Heavenly Gate" disaster, where the $ 44 million film earned a $ 3.5 million coat. Other films released between Fimino's film and "Waterworld" (eg "The Adventures of Baron Munhausen", which made $ 8 million against the $ 47m budget), were much larger losers of money.

And as soon as "Waterworld" hit the home entertainment revenue window, it could make a profit.

According to the profit comparison published by The deadline In 2013, Waterworld was nowhere close to Flop. Although the analyst's figures were outdated in the streaming era, there was a time when Waterworld would have been a well -driven risk. All said, you can call it a disappointment in terms of its heavenly price, but does not belong in conversation with Bombs falling on the jaw as "the adventures of Pluto Nash", "Island Kottroat" and "Inhon".

As for the alleged damage done to Costner's career, he retired with Ron Shelton's well-considered golf-coming, "Tin Cup" next year (which, similar to "Waterwall", became a favorite movie "Dad" in 1997. Then The waters have become unusual.

Costner has not starred in box office for 22 years, despite praying billionaires and Saudi Arabia for money, it's nowhere close to finishing the last two Horizon: American Saga. He's against it now, and it sounds like it brings him a lot of this hard. But when you write about Costner's tumultuous career, you make the history of a bad service when you call it "Waterworld".