EXCLUSIVE: The Accountant 2 knows how to count.
The Ben Affleck-Jon Bernthal sequel has pulled in nearly 80 million worldwide Prime Video viewers since its June 5 launch, officially ranking as Amazon MGM Studios’ second most-watched film of all time (measured over a 28-day period).
The Gavin O’Connor-directed movie had a 42-day exclusive theatrical window before landing on Prime Video. The sequel to the 2016 movie bowed to $24.5 million at the domestic box office and legged out to $65.5M stateside and $103.2M worldwide.
The Accountant 2 won the Audience Award at SXSW earlier this year after making its world premiere at the Austin fest. The pic also landed the No. 1 spot on Nielsen’s Movie chart on its debut week with 1.384 billion minutes streamed. The film is 72% Certified Fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes and landed a 92% on the Popcorn meter.
In part two, Christian Wolff (Affleck) applies his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief’s murder. He once again partners with his shady brother Braxton (Bernthal). Pic also stars Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson and J.K. Simmons. Bill Dubuque wrote the screenplay. Producers include Affleck via Artists Equity, Lynette Howell Taylor via 51 Entertainment and Mark Williams, with O’Connor, Scott Lastaiti, Jamie Patricof, Matt Damon, Michael Joe, Kevin Halloran, Dani Bernfeld and Alison Winter executive producing.
The film marks the fourth collaboration between Amazon MGM Studios and Artists Equity after the acclaimed $90M global-grossing sports drama Air, the Jennifer Lopez documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told and the sports drama Unstoppable.