Argylle at least made more money than the theatrical screening of three episodes of The Chosen
Argylle manages to lead a fairly grim weekend box office
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Well, Argylle is a Certified Stinker at the box office, debuting to just $18 million this weekend from a budget that was supposedly somewhere in the $200 million range, but at least we now know the real identity of mysterious Argylle author Elly Conway. Also, the movie opened in the top spot of the U.S. box office! That means they can do those “number one movie in America” commercials and cross their fingers that nobody watching TV this week actually looks into that any deeper. Of course, that would depend on there being something left in Argylle’s marketing budget, which isn’t a given.
In fact, if you want to get pedantic about it, Argylle actually made a good $13 million more than any other movie this weekend, because the number two spot on the domestic charts went to three episodes of the fourth season of Jesus-centric TV show The Chosen—yes, a TV show, the thing you normally watch at home in your own chair. It made $6 million this weekend, which is about $6 million more than what most TV shows make at the box office. People love that Jesus guy, but that’s nothing new: A couple of years ago, a special featuring The Chosen cast members singing Christmas songs made $13 million at the box office.
Finishing up the top five are The Beekeeper, Wonka, and Migration, with Wonka clearing $200 million by a hair. Those are followed by Mean Girls (a steep drop from its first three weeks), Anyone But You, American Fiction, Poor Things, and Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (which is going to need a miracle to match the box office success of its predecessor).
The full top 10, courtesy of Box Office Mojo, is below.
- Argylle
- The Chosen, season 4: Episode 1-3
- The Beekeeper
- Wonka
- Migration
- Mean Girls
- Anyone But You
- American Fiction
- Poor Things
- Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
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still mega-impressed with anyone but you’s performance. 150 worldwide for a 20’ish million dollar romcom is wild.
Who the hell green lit $200 million for Argyle? That’s a low budget or mid range movie at best. Definitely not blockbuster territory and especially in the current market?Honestly it seems like the problem these days is less “people don’t watch movies in theater” and more “studios need to rein their budgets in.”
i can see the prestige/oscars argument for kotfm or napoleon, and i’m at least happy those movies exist. no idea why they extended the same arm to matthew vaughn of all people.
Ugh, I’m an idiot and just read the article without actually looking it up.It’s not a $200 million dollar budget. That’s just what Apple paid to secure the rights. Presumably the actual budget is much lower and the difference is to cover the fact that streaming rights don’t have residuals or box office sharing.So really the theater revenue is probably just gravy to them at this point.
no no it’s a 200 million dollar budget financed by apple. you were correct. it included the rights.
Lol. If Apple had actually paid $200M for JUST the rights to this one shitty movie, that would’ve been whole magnitudes worse in terms of wasted money. By comparison, NETFLIX paid $100m for a decade of exclusive “Friends” reruns.
matthew vaughnYou mean dollar store Guy Ritchie.
I can’t even tell where the money went. The Kingsmen ww1 prequel looks a little bit better and that has a smaller budget. Did they blow it all on the marketing? I got bombarded with dancing Dua Lipa more then even the Minions.
I think it’s just bad reporting. I was misled myself.The thing is, when a typical movie budget is announced, they’re talking about how much it cost to make the movie.But when a streamer pays to aquire a movie, that doesn’t just include the production/marketing/etc cost, it also includes a prearranged amount to cover the streaming rights.So let’s take a hypothetical movie that costs $100 million to make. A streamer could spend $200 million to buy it because that includes both recouping the costs AND payment for the rights to stream the movie for however long the contract period is. But when journalists report “that movie cost $200 million” it’s not quite accurate cause it actually cost $100 million if we’re comparing apples to apples.
I see, a very good clarification. Although I’m sure either way its not a massive hit.
I’m just going to leave this here:‘”Some industry journals noted the $200 million as the production budget, with The Hollywood Reporter claiming some sources put costs as high as $250 million. Director Matthew Vaughn refuted that claim, saying: “I don’t know how you spend $200 million on it. I actually don’t. Unless you’re going to make a five-hour CG fest.””’Source: https://en.www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argylle#Development
Blow. They blew it on blow.
Apple. With money found in Tim Cook’s couch.
Yeah I agree with the budget part, but for me I have literally gone to the theater twice since 2019. The problem for me is that I honestly haven’t saw any great movies other that the two I went to see. Most movies that are supposed to be great end up being like, “well that was a movie.” Vast majority of movies I wait till I can watch them for free on streaming or rent for like 5 dollars. Just recycled plots and stories, with “realistic” movies just so over the top with its action that no human could possibly accomplish the feats being undertaken. They keep jumping the shark.
why all the hate for christian movies/tv? let them be – no?
Where’s the hate? This piece is just pointing out that the number two “movie” at the box office this weekend was actually three episodes of a TV show.
My guess is the article’s title sounds a bit rude to some- it feels sort of like “this movie sucked, but at least it made more than this Christian dreck.”
Christians want so badly to be persecuted—no need to help them out.
i think people are either blinded by their own rage or just misinformed. no group or organization is beyond incrimination including far left organizations. certain christian groups have done alot of good and continues to service the general community like the salvation army. so i think you should look inwards
Would happily let them be if they let us be.
All the shade was about it being three episodes of a late season packaged as a movie, not about Jesus.
No fuck them and fuck anyone responsible for them
I just saw it, and I thought it was good.
At a corporate roundtable this minute:“People love that Jesus guy.”
“What other Messiahs can we license quickly? Maybe a Prophet Cinematic Universe?”
“We might have a hard time securing the likeness to Mohammad.”
“BUT the Buddhists will definitely sign off on Tv and film rights for Buddha. They’re huge starfuckers”
I can hear Ryan George saying that.
So what you’re saying is that Lisa Frankenstein is gonna clean house next weekend?
Argylle cost $200 million? Naw, it couldn’t’ve. Given how its special effects are so downright crude in the ads, I figured their budget was $20 million.