Argylle, which has a $200 million production budget, reached $6.5 million on its opening day

[therearewords]

#Argylle, which has a massive $200 million production budget, only saw $6.5 million on its opening day. https://t.co/eIn9vJGPqk pic.twitter.com/UOpld2ZBaa
- Variety (@Variety) February 4, 2024
- The espionage action-comedy only saw $6.5 million in ticket sales from 3,605 North American venues across opening day and preview screenings

Comments

[euraylie]

Omg why did it have a $200 million budget??
This should’ve been like Lost City with Sandra Bullock, which, I believe was a modest hit (and actually fun to watch), which had a budget of around $70.

And a trilogy? Why not start small and see how it goes from there?

[therearewords]

All the (big) name actors? Matthew and his wrongly-based sense of importance?

[aristobrit]

Most of the budget for these kinds of films goes to VFX. Vaughn relies heavily on semi-fantasy action scenes and they use lots of VFX.

[squirrels_oh_no]

The Creator is in the corner cackling at directors and their budgets for that

[jenfolder]

Visually The Creator was stunning just a shame about the rest of it.

[squirrels_oh_no]

It wasn't the most creative plot-wise (at all) but I was into it LMAO.

[jenfolder]

The field planted inside the superweapon which had no purpose kind of took me out of it. Lol

[squirrels_oh_no]

Yeah, that was there for the final scene to look pretty, lmao but during the ONTD watch party we argued about that and some kept naming Star Trek ships with gardens. We also couldn't decide if the NOMAD was in the atmosphere or not (or how it was not crashing).

[la_loony]

lol I didn't question the field at all, I guess my brain immediately explained it away that it was there to produce oxygen and make it easier to feed the crew instead of transporting all the food up all the time.

[aristobrit]

IKR? It just shows if the director knows what they're doing they don't have to rely on expensive VFX. Too many directors don't understand the technical side of filmmaking and too many studio executives know less than nothing.

[xdecadentx]

The Lost City had big name actors too, so that is some budgeting.

[therearewords]

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