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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is mobilizing a sequel to the 2016 hit The Accountant. Screenwriter Bill Dubuque, director Gavin O’Connor and Ben Affleck are in talks to return, along with the producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Mark Williams. All those deals are being worked out right now. I’m told they will then work out the…

Netflix is finalizing negotiations with Fox 21 TV Studios for Seven Seconds, a 10-episode drama series that reflects the current racial tensions in America. The project hails from The Killing creator Veena Sud, with Gavin O’Connor, helmer of last weekend’s No. 1 movie The Accountant, attached to direct. In Seven Second…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: Sony's Inferno sparked to a strong $50M offshore opening this frame to lead the international and worldwide box office two weeks ahead of its domestic bow. Aided by the continued performance of Fox's Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, along with some solid holdovers and a…

6TH Write-thru, Monday Final: Warner Bros. is calling the weekend for Ben Affleck drama thriller  The Accountant at $24.7M. Despite seeing a 5% hike in Saturday’s business with $9.5M, Sunday ticket sales were -36% as a plethora of sporting events distracted the pic’s core guy audience, i.e. there were four NFL games…

Director Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant follows the adventures – or misadventures – of an autistic math savant (Ben Affleck) who, using the cover of an unassuming small town CPA, earns a living as a forensic accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminals. And also happens to be a brutally efficient…

It must have been a swell meeting when writer Bill Dubuque went in to pitch a movie about an accountant who not only knows how to add numbers, but also body counts. Somehow though, the ludicrous-sounding premise of the resulting The Accountant makes for a nicely entertaining action movie vehicle for an understated (to…

It’s bound to be another downer weekend at the box office. Following Labor Day, this fall’s ticket sales currently total $682.8M through the second weekend in October, which is -10% versus the same frame last year and -8% when compared to that time frame in 2014. According to ComScore, since 2012 the annual fall B.O…

If we learned anything from the global financial meltdown of 2007-08, the scariest supervillains in the world aren’t necessarily terrorists or renegade military dictators but accountants. Cue Warner Bros’ upcoming action thriller The Accountant, which takes this idea to its logical extreme. Starring Ben Affleck in the…

Well this is a nice surprise – earlier today Warner Bros dropped the first trailer for its upcoming crime thriller The Accountant, and it’s looking like it might be kind of awesome. The film stars newly-minted Batman Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a math savant and possible sociopath whose small-town CPA practice is…

Warner Bros. has announced three release date changes. Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant starring Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick will play a week later moving from Oct. 7 to Oct. 14. The previous weekend was a cutthroat one for serious adult fare with Universal/DreamWorks’ feature bestseller adaptation The Girl on the Tra…

Warner Bros has pushed back two movies involving Ben Affleck. The Accountant, the Gavin O’Connor-directed film that Affleck stars in, has been pushed from its January 29, 2016 berth to open October 7, 2016. At the same time, Warner Bros has moved from October 7, 2016 to an undated 2017 berth for Live by Night, Affleck…

Warner Bros has set release dates for four of its five upcoming films, and has removed one planned event movie from the schedule entirely. The action thriller The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck, John Lithgow, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson will hit theaters on January 29, 2016…