Box bureau report: Ben Affleck’s ‘The Accountant’ dominates with $24.7m
Affleck portrays an autistic math theorist and weapons consultant in The Accountant. PHOTO: FILE
LOS ANGELES: Underlining Ben Affleck’s star power, The Accountant dominated cinemas with a plain $24.7 million opening weekend during 3,222 North American sites.
Sunday’s guess came in significantly above expectations, that had ranged from $18 million to $20 million during a start of a weekend.
Comedy unison film Kevin Hart: What Now? delivered about half of The Accountant’s sum with $12 million during 2,568 locations. But a entrance of sci-fi journey Max Steel was abandoned by moviegoers with $2.1 million during 2,034 screens for a gloomy $1,049 per-screen average.
Warner Bros.’ The Accountant took in $200,000 some-more than final weekend’s winner, The Girl on a Train, that non-stop with $24.5 million. The Emily Blunt thriller finished in a tie for second with Kevin Hart: What Now?
The Accountant carries a assuage $40 million cost tag, with Affleck portraying an autistic math theorist and weapons consultant who cooks a books for rapist organisations. Gavin O’Connor leads from a book by Bill Dubuque. Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow also star. Prospects for holdover business are decent with an A CinemaScore, quite with 86% of business over 25.
The Accountant non-stop sensitively in 10 general markets with $2.8 million from 1,190 screens, led by $755,000 during 109 sites in Taiwan. It will open subsequent weekend in Brazil, Germany and Spain.
Warner-based Affleck has a clever lane record in dramas with 2010’s The Town, that grossed $154 million worldwide, 2012’s Best Picture Oscar winner Argo, with $232 million worldwide, and 2014’s Gone Girl, with $369 million. His Prohibition-era crime drama Live by Night opens on Christmas and he’ll lapse as Batman in Justice League on Nov. 17, 2017.
Kevin Hart: What Now? is a demeanour during a final opening of a comedian’s many new tour, filmed in August, 2015, during Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field — and book-ended by James Bond-style travesty sequences in that Hart teams with Halle Berry as his constant though dismissive associate. Leslie Small and Tim Story directed.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 18th, 2016.
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