The Accountant 2crosses a major global box office milestone. Starring Ben Affleck in the lead role, Christian Wolff, Jon Bernthal as Brax, Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Marybeth Medina, and Daniella Pineda as Anaïs, the movie sees the titular accountant teaming up with his estranged brother from the original movie,The Accountant, to track down assassins following FinCEN director Raymond King’s (J.K. Simmons) death.
According toBox Office Mojo,the sequel has made more than $100 million at the global box office, surpassing the 2003Paycheckat 15th on Affleck’s all-time chart among all 55 movies.The TownandThe Accountantcurrently occupy the 14th and 13th spots, having garnered $154 million and $155.5 million globally from their theatrical runs, respectively. The top spot on the actor’s all-time chart is currently occupied by the 2016 movie,Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which amassed more than $874 million globally.
What This Means For The Accountant 2
The Accountant 2 Has A Long Way To Make It Into Ben Affleck’s Top 10
Despite crossing another major global box office, the 2025 action thrillerstill needs another $55 million to match the 2016 original movie’s box officeand $93.5 million to surpass the 2010 movie,The Sum of All Fear, to make it onto the actor’s top 10 list. After opening on April 25, the movie is approaching its fifth week in theaters. While it doesn’t look very likely that the movie will be among Affleck’s highest-grossing films, there’s still a chance for the sequel to surpass the original’s box office at the end of its theatrical run.
The Accountant 2opened to $24 million domestically at the box officeduring its opening weekend, which is around the same as the 2016 original. However, the new movie had a significantly larger production budget of $80 million, which nearly doubled the original’s $44 million budget. Despite falling a little short in comparison to the original’s success, the movie is still in the top 20 ofBen Affleck’s catalog.
The Accountant 2 Still Falls Short Of The Original’s Box Office Success
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The Accountant 2’s commercial success issmaller in scale in comparison toThe Accountant. While Affleck and director Gavin O’Connor have openly discussed the possibility of a threequel, Amazon MGM have yet toconfirmThe Accountant 3.Passing another global box office milestone is good news, but whether it’ll be enough to grant the Ben Affleck film series another title is unknown.
So far,The Accountant 2doesn’t have a streaming release date. It’s also unclear how long its theatrical run will last, but given the movie has spent less than five weeks in theaters, it’s still early to say how much it’ll make by the end of its run. With the release of Tom Cruise’s action thrillerMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Disney’sLilo & Stitch, and the return of the infamous horror franchiseFinal Destination, the movie is facing tough competition at the box office.
