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Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Dua Lipa, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cena, Catherine O’Hara Set For New Matthew Vaughn Spy Franchise ‘Argylle’
Matthew Vaughn has set an all-star cast for his next big budget action project, which will start shooting this August in Europe.
Pop star Dua Lipa will make her acting debut on the project and will provide original music for the title track and score.
The film, based on the soon to be launched spy novel Argylle from author Ellie Conway, follows “the world’s greatest spy” ‘Argylle’ as he is caught up in a globe-trotting adventure.
The movie will be the first of at least three films in the franchise and is set in America, London and multiple locations across the world.
Conway’s debut thriller is scheduled to be published in a major launch in 2022 by Transworld Publishers Ltd, a division of Penguin Random House
Kingsman director-producer Vaughn will direct from a script by Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman). Vaughn’s regular collaborators Adam Bohling and David Reid will also produce, as well as Fuchs. Zygi Kamasa, Carlos Peres, Claudia Vaughn and Adam Fishbach will serve as executive producers.
Matthew Vaughn commented: “When I read this early draft manuscript I felt it was the most incredible and original spy franchise since Ian Fleming’s books of the 50s. This is going to reinvent the spy genre.”
Zygi Kamasa, CEO of Marv added: “We are delighted that we will be starting our fourth, and by far the biggest, feature film production since the start of the global pandemic. It demonstrates both our desire to scale up our production activity and our ambition to continue to launch new franchises beyond the Kingsman series of films.”
Reply by Sue-Yin
on March 9, 2022 at 6:44 AM
HC
TayDuaNation
Reply by HCFan
on March 10, 2022 at 1:16 PM
HC is the lead? I remember old hags insisting that Bryce Dallas Howard is the lead.
Reply by Triksy
on March 11, 2022 at 9:18 PM
Interesting hairstyles. Will it be set in the 80s or 90s? Die Hard and Lethal Weapon were 80s and 90s movies.
Reply by Blue-Rose
on March 12, 2022 at 1:57 AM
BDH may be the female lead.
Argylle is a spy film, not a cop film, right?
Reply by Triksy
on March 31, 2022 at 8:07 PM
I'm not sure.
Collider: Matthew Vaughn Talks 'Argylle,' How It's a Mix of 'Die Hard,' ‘Romancing the Stone’ & ‘Lethal Weapon'...
In a group interview that Collider was part of for The Kings Man, Vaughn was asked how the book first came across his desk. "I think that one of the benefits about lockdown is I got to read again," he said. "I actually had normal time. I rediscovered what books were like. A friend of mine sent me Argylle, and every now and then I read a book and I have a 'I have to make this into a movie.'"
"I just couldn't stop laughing reading it because it had captured a side to me about those 80s movies. It's sort of a mixture of Die Hard, Romancing the Stone, Lethal Weapon. It’s just fun. If people think Kingsman was fun… this is on a different level where it's just going… I was sitting in lockdown, seeing how miserable we all were, and I read it and it made me smile. So, I just thought, you know what, let's make a movie during lockdown because we put it all together really quickly. I was going stir crazy, like all of us at home, and I thought, well look, if I can make a movie and it's, you know, I thought it was a contained film. It's gone and exploded, and I couldn't help it. The set pieces got bigger and bigger and bigger, and I had zero discipline trying to keep it small. So, it's now huge. It's now actually the most expensive movie I've made. It's more expensive than The King’s Man, which is ridiculous
Reply by HCFan
on April 1, 2022 at 2:45 PM
Such a huge, expensive film and we know very little about it. No set pics. Nothing. What’s Ariana DeBose’s role? She just won an Oscar for Best Supporting Acttress. I hope she has a big part in the film.
Reply by Triksy
on April 1, 2022 at 9:07 PM
She was in the sneak peek.
Reply by Blue-Rose
on June 4, 2022 at 4:11 AM
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Reply by Triksy
on October 12, 2022 at 8:04 PM
Film Music Reporter
Reply by Triksy
on January 15, 2023 at 10:19 PM
THR
Reply by Triksy
on March 24, 2023 at 11:21 PM
Apple Inc. plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theaters, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, part of an ambitious effort to raise its profile in Hollywood and lure subscribers to its streaming service.
Apple has approached movie studios about partnering to release a few titles in theaters this year and a slate of more films in the future, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private. The list of potential releases includes Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, […]; the spy thriller Argylle, from director Matthew Vaughn; and Napoleon, Ridley Scott’s drama about the French conqueror. […]
The investment is a significant increase from years past. Most of Apple’s previous original movies have either been exclusive to the streaming service or released in a limited number of theaters. The company has pledged to put movies in thousands of theaters for at least a month, said the people, though it hasn’t finalized any plans.
While Apple has agreed to theatrical releases in order to please talent and outmaneuver competitors for projects, the company also views theaters as a way to build awareness for its TV+ streaming service. If the company is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a Scorsese movie, it wants to turn that into a cultural event. Apple TV+ is estimated to have between 20 million and 40 million subscribers, fewer than rivals such as Netflix and Disney+.
Apple still hasn’t figured out how it will distribute these movies in theaters. The company doesn’t have the expertise internally to release movies in thousands of cinemas worldwide at once, which is why it has approached third-party distributors. But first, Apple needs to come to terms on distribution fees and marketing budgets with potential partners. Movie studios can spend $100 million or more to market their biggest titles, far more than streaming services spend promoting new shows or movies.
Paramount Pictures will release the Scorsese movie in theaters because the project originated at that studio, and will collect a 10% distribution fee. The studio hasn’t agreed to distribute other titles for Apple.
Like most streaming services, Apple TV+ spends more of its budget on TV shows. […] Yet Apple has been funding movies from the inception of its Hollywood studio and the smartphone maker’s ambitions in film have grown since it won an Academy Award for best picture for 2021’s CODA. […]
Its [Apple] previous movies didn’t receive the kind of theatrical release planned for the upcoming titles. CODA earned less than $2 million at the box office. […]
Tech giants Apple and Amazon.com Inc. are increasing their investment in entertainment at the same time they are cutting costs elsewhere. Amazon has fired thousands of workers, while Apple is cutting costs without letting staff go so far.
Apple’s plans will boost theater chains still struggling to recover from the pandemic. Ticket sales remain about a third below 2019 levels and two of the largest chains are on shaky financial footing. AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., the world’s largest cinema operator, has sought to raise more cash by selling shares, while rival Cineworld Group Plc filed for bankruptcy last year. The chains have repeatedly blamed the dearth of available films from studios for their woes, rather than moviegoers’ lack of interest in returning to theaters.
Theater stocks rose on the news, led by Cinemark Holdings Inc., which was up 6.5%.
More help should be on the way. Amazon, which acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio behind the James Bond films, for $8.5 billion, aims to make between 12 and 15 movies annually that will get a theatrical release, Bloomberg News reported last year. Paramount, Walt Disney Co. And Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. are looking to increase their output of movies for theaters after experimenting with distributing films on streaming services alone.
The one outlier in this return to the theaters is Netflix Inc., which wants its movies to appear in theaters and online at the same time, or within a couple weeks. Major cinema chains have refused this arrangement. Netflix spends more on original movies than Amazon or Apple.
Reply by Cashmere
on March 30, 2023 at 8:56 AM
Cool. I thought the delay was because they wanted to release Argille with the book.
Reply by Triksy
on June 22, 2023 at 9:00 PM
HC
THR
Reply by Cashmere
on June 30, 2023 at 9:00 AM
Finally. We should get TMOUW in 2025.
Reply by Sue-Yin
on July 8, 2023 at 5:55 AM
They really took their time. I guess we'll still be young when we see it.