The global opening weekend of Argylle pales in comparison to its huge budget. The $200 million spy movie from Apple Original Films and director Matthew Vaughn, is allegedly a meta adaptation of the real book of the same name by the mysterious and potentially non-existent Elly Conway. In the movie, Bryce Dallas Howard plays Conway herself, who gets caught up in a globetrotting adventure when her spy novel about Agent Argylle (Henry Cavill) proves to have unintended, prescient insight into actual espionage operations.
Per Deadline, the Argylle box office is projected to end its opening weekend with a 3-day worldwide total of $35 million. This is enough to make it No. 1 at the box office, but hardly makes a dent in the movie’s $200 million budget. That total also makes it the lowest-grossing opening for one of Apple’s recent movie releases at that budget level, behind Killers of the Flower Moon ($44 million) and Napoleon ($78.8 million over Thanksgiving weekend).
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Argylle
Argylle is an action thriller by director Matthew Vaughn. The movie centers on an introverted novelist who is thrown into the real world of espionage after the plot of her most recent spy thriller parrels the crimes of an underground syndicate. Argylle has a star-studded cast, including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Dua Lipa, and Samuel L. Jackson, among others.
- Release Date
- February 2, 2024
- Director
- Matthew Vaughn
- Cast
- Henry Cavill , Ariana DeBose , Sofia Boutella , Catherine O’Hara , Bryce Dallas Howard , John Cena , Dua Lipa , Samuel L. Jackson , Sam Rockwell , Bryan Cranston , Rob Delaney
- Runtime
- 135 Minutes
- Writers
- Jason Fuchs
- Studio(s)
- Apple , Cloudy Productions , Marv Studios
- Distributor(s)
- Universal Pictures , Apple
