Accountant tops BO with $25m opening

Ben Affleck's opening of action-thriller “The Accountant” is dominating the Box Office numbers with a solid $25 million in North America.

That's about double the launch of comedy concert movie “Kevin Hart: What Now?” which is performing respectably with about $12.4 million. But the debut of sci-fi adventure “Max Steel” is being shunned by moviegoers with less than $2 million.

“The Accountant” is over-performing recent forecasts, which placed it in the $18 million to $20 million range. The movie carries a moderate $40 million price tag and follows a small town certified public accountant, who makes his living cooking the books for criminal organisations. Gavin O'Connor directs from a script by Bill Dubuque. Anna Kendrick, JK Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow also star.

Fox's third frame of “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children” should finish fourth at around $8.5 million, giving the Tim Burton fantasy around $65 million for its first 17 days.

Source: Variety