The Accountant topped the North American box office over the weekend with a better-than-expected $24.7 million from 3,332 theaters after being snubbed by many critics. In the action-thriller, Affleck plays a whiz accountant (and assassin) who cooks the books for mobsters and cartels. When he’s targeted by the Treasury Department, he goes to work for a company he thinks is on the up and up. Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons and John Lithgow also star in the film.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, October 16, are as follows:
# | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Total | ||
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3-Day Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | ||||
1 | Accountant, The | Warner Bros. | $24,715,000 | 3,332 | $7,417 | $24,715,000 |
2 | Kevin Hart: What Now? | Universal | $11,984,245 | 2,567 | $4,669 | $11,984,245 |
3 | Girl On The Train, The | Universal | $11,974,915 | 3,241 | $3,695 | $46,558,510 |
4 | Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Chldn | 20th Century Fox | $8,900,000 | 3,835 | $2,321 | $65,832,789 |
5 | Deepwater Horizon | Lionsgate | $6,350,000 | 3,403 | $1,866 | $49,335,332 |
6 | Storks | Warner Bros. | $5,600,000 | 3,066 | $1,826 | $59,144,046 |
7 | Magnificent Seven, The | Sony | $5,200,000 | 3,210 | $1,620 | $84,827,562 |
8 | Middle School:The Worst Years Of My Life | Lionsgate | $4,250,000 | 2,822 | $1,506 | $13,760,795 |
9 | Sully | Warner Bros. | $2,960,000 | 2,211 | $1,339 | $118,371,637 |
10 | Birth Of A Nation, The | Fox Searchlight | $2,715,000 | 2,105 | $1,290 | $12,243,134 |
11 | Max Steel | Open Road | $2,163,720 | 2,034 | $1,064 | $2,163,720 |
12 | Masterminds | Relativity Media | $1,700,000 | 2,027 | $839 | $16,211,406 |