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

[therearewords]

I know the complete box office is posted later today but c'mon; let's start Sunday with a sensible chuckle.

[nemophilist]

Interesting that almost every film that's bombing at the box office have a budget of 200+ million and all the successes are like max 20 million.

[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

[sillyskinny]

So many big budget productions flopping and I don't hear nearly enough about executives losing their jobs over it.
Unless they start holding people (other than the female stars of the films) accountable for their gross overspending, those ridiculous budgets will keep getting approved.

Bring back QUALITY mid-budget movies.

[picturemegone]

And where did the money go because it wasn't on the screen lol Seriously tho they need to tax these companies more. I'm sick and tired of these big budget flops.

[vibeology_e]

I really genuinely think there is money laundering and embezzlement going on.

[xdecadentx]

There is no way there isn't. There is simply no other way to explain it.