Matthew Vaughn is one of Britain’s most successful and critically acclaimed independent filmmakers, whose production company MARV, specializes in genre-redefining films. He began his career by producing Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, then debuted as a director with the critically acclaimed Layer Cake, starring Daniel Craig in 2004. He followed this by cowriting, directing, and producing Stardust, starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.
From 2009 to 2014 Vaughn released Harry Brown, The Debt, the cult hit Kick-Ass starring Nicolas Cage, Chlöe Grace Moretz, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, then cowrote and directed X-Men: First Class, a box office hit that he followed by cowriting X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Vaughn also produced Eddie the Eagle in 2016, and in 2019 MARV and Rocket Pictures released the BAFTA-nominated and Oscar®-winning Rocketman. In 2023 MARV released Tetris, produced by Vaughn and starring Taron Egerton, with Apple Original Films.

In February 2024 MARV released the action-comedy-romance Argylle, in theatres worldwide with Universal Pictures and Apple Original Films. Directed and produced by Vaughn and featuring an all-star cast including Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Dua Lipa and Ariana DeBose, with John Cena and Samuel L. Jackson.