HC

Argylle and Lagrange. Seems perfectly peaceful doesn't it.....
Argylle
@Appletvplus
@Marv_Films
@DuaLipa

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2khpYs7Vp/

TayDuaNation

A sneak peek from the movie “Argylle” in which @dualipa will make her acting debut!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2l_5HgAZ_/

@Sue-Yin said:

HC

Argylle and Lagrange. Seems perfectly peaceful doesn't it.....
Argylle
@Appletvplus
@Marv_Films
@DuaLipa

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2khpYs7Vp/

TayDuaNation

A sneak peek from the movie “Argylle” in which @dualipa will make her acting debut!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2l_5HgAZ_/

HC is the lead? I remember old hags insisting that Bryce Dallas Howard is the lead.

@Sue-Yin said:

HC

Argylle and Lagrange. Seems perfectly peaceful doesn't it.....
Argylle
@Appletvplus
@Marv_Films
@DuaLipa

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2khpYs7Vp/

TayDuaNation

A sneak peek from the movie “Argylle” in which @dualipa will make her acting debut!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2l_5HgAZ_/

Interesting hairstyles. Will it be set in the 80s or 90s? Die Hard and Lethal Weapon were 80s and 90s movies.

@HCFan said:

HC is the lead? I remember old hags insisting that Bryce Dallas Howard is the lead.

BDH may be the female lead.

@Triksy said:

Die Hard and Lethal Weapon were 80s and 90s movies.

Argylle is a spy film, not a cop film, right?

@Blue-Rose said:

@Triksy said:

Die Hard and Lethal Weapon were 80s and 90s movies.

Argylle is a spy film, not a cop film, right?

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

@Triksy said:

Collider: Matthew Vaughn Talks 'Argylle,' How It's a Mix of 'Die Hard,' ‘Romancing the Stone’ & ‘Lethal Weapon'...

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_

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.

@HCFan said:

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.

She was in the sneak peek.

Cheatsheet

Dua Lipa Says Filming ‘Argylle’ With Henry Cavill Was ‘Not at All’ Like Making a Music Video

Lipa pointed out that when a singer is performing in a music video, they are themselves, singing to the camera as the audience. Filming for feature films involves character work and a different type of attention to the camera. “In a music video, you really play to the camera, whereas in film, you have to forget the camera and get into character,” she explained.

What character Lipa will be playing is still undisclosed. However, she’s pictured in the Argylle teaser dancing with the film’s titular lead, played by Cavill. Argylle is based on a forthcoming book by the same name. It will be the first installment of a new multi-film spy franchise that director Matthew Vaughn told The Hollywood Reporter will “reinvent the spy genre.”

Argylle’s first look photos hint at the film being set in the 1980s. This is perfect for Lipa, whose Future Nostalgia album already demonstrated the artist’s ability to capture the decade in new and exciting ways. Lipa will also be working on the score for Argylle.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dua-lipa-says-filming-argylle-with-henry-cavill-was-not-at-all-like-making-a-music-video.html/

Film Music Reporter

Lorne Balfe to Score Matthew Vaughn’s ‘Argylle’

Lorne Balfe  (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, Bad Boys for Life, The LEGO Batman Movie) has been tapped to score the upcoming spy thriller Argylle.

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/10/11/lorne-balfe-to-score-matthew-vaughns-argylle/

THR

Mystery Enshrouds Author Behind Henry Cavill Spy Thriller ‘Argylle’

Who is Elly Conway? The answer to that is proving elusive.

The simple answer is that Conway is a first-time novelist whose upcoming spy thriller, Argylle, has already been adapted into a major motion picture with an all-star cast [...]

The deal cost Apple a whopping $200 million, according to industry reports, which guarantees only a single film — one that might launch a new movie franchise.

[…] the numbers involved are rare for a first-time author. Conway doesn’t even have a book for sale yet: Argylle was originally slated for a Sept. 29 publication; that has since been pushed to March 30, 2023.

The book has no Amazon page, save for a German-language Kindle version scheduled for Jan. 10, 2023. Attempts by The Hollywood Reporter to read an advance copy of the book — a common industry practice — were unsuccessful.

According to Conway’s two-line bio, she “lives in the United States and is currently working on the next installment in the series.”

Beyond that, however, there exists virtually no information about Conway.

Adding to the mystery, an alternate spelling of her name, Ellie Conway, appears elsewhere on the Penguin Random House website and in news reports on the rights deal.

An Instagram account, @authorellyconway, currently sits empty and is followed by nine accounts, including a Bryce Dallas Howard fan account.

Efforts by THR to interview Conway, or even learn more details about her, have proven fruitless. Communication with a publicist for Ballantine Books, the imprint publishing Argylle, went dead after the conversation turned to questions about the author.

Emails to Conway’s agent, WME’s Eric Reid, also failed to receive a response.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/argylle-elly-conway-henry-cavill-apple-spy-mystery-1235220772/

Bloomberg

Apple to Spend $1 Billion a Year on Films to Break Into Cinemas

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.

@Triksy said:

Bloomberg

Apple to Spend $1 Billion a Year on Films to Break Into Cinemas

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. […]

Cool. I thought the delay was because they wanted to release Argille with the book.

HC

Eciting news! Watch this space!

(#)Argylle
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THR

Henry Cavill’s ‘Argylle’ Sets Theatrical Release From Apple, Universal

Apple Original Films is making more moves in the theatrical space. The streaming service is teaming with Universal to give the Henry Cavill spy thriller Argylle a Feb. 2, 2024, exclusive global release.

It’s the latest high-profile feature that Apple has opted to grant a theatrical window ahead of its streaming debut. The company is already teaming with Sony to put Ridley Scott’s Napoleon into theaters this Thanksgiving, while it has Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon due out Oct. 6 via Paramount.

Until this year, streamers have been hesitant to give films a traditional theatrical release, however, major theater chains won’t play a title unless it has an exclusive window (generally that means 35 to 40 days).

In addition to Cavill, Argylle stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, John Cena, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose and Samuel L. Jackson.

In 2021, Vaughn told The Hollywood Reporter he and Apple were discussing a potential theatrical component for Argylle, though it’s worth noting times were very different back then. The pandemic was still putting pressure on theaters, and streaming services had not yet explored traditional releases.

“Apple believes in cinema and I believe in cinema,” Vaughn said at the time. “So we’re discussing how to give it the right cinematic release, not necessarily the normal cinematic release. It’d be a cinematic release that is right for Argylle, and Argylle is quite specific and different. So weirdly, it lends itself to a whole new way of being released.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/argylle-release-date-henry-cavill-movie-1235516499/

@Triksy said:

Henry Cavill’s ‘Argylle’ Sets Theatrical Release From Apple, Universal

Apple Original Films is making more moves in the theatrical space. The streaming service is teaming with Universal to give the Henry Cavill spy thriller Argylle a Feb. 2, 2024, exclusive global release.

Finally. We should get TMOUW in 2025.

@Cashmere said:

@Triksy said:

Henry Cavill’s ‘Argylle’ Sets Theatrical Release From Apple, Universal

Apple Original Films is making more moves in the theatrical space. The streaming service is teaming with Universal to give the Henry Cavill spy thriller Argylle a Feb. 2, 2024, exclusive global release.

Finally. We should get TMOUW in 2025.

They really took their time. I guess we'll still be young when we see it.