At the box office this weekend, Sinners has set multiple records while The Accountant 2 has failed to dominate the incoming movies thanks to a surprise hit re-release. The latter тιтle is the belated sequel to the 2016 Ben Affleck movie The Accountant, which saw the two-time Oscar winner playing autistic action hero Christian Wolff. Many of the movie’s original stars returned, including Jon Bernthal, J. K. Simmons, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson, though Affleck’s original co-star Anna Kendrick was absent. The original was a box office success, grossing $155.2 million against its $44 million budget despite its 55% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Accountant 2 debuted during the sophomore weekend of the Ryan Coogler horror movie Sinners, which re-teams the Creed and Black Panther director with longtime collaborator Michael B. Jordan, who plays a dual role as twins. The Sinners cast also includes Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Miles Caton, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo. Although the movie comes with a large budget that is reportedly $90 million or more, it kicked off with a bang, debuting with a $48 million domestic opening weekend that saw it toppling the hit A Minecraft Movie from its perch at No. 1.
Sinners Pᴀssed The $150 Million Milestone Worldwide
It Is Already One Of 2025’s Biggest Hits
During its second weekend in theaters, the Sinners release continued to turn out an astounding performance. Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, it is projected to close out the weekend with a 3-day domestic box office gross of $45 million. This is more than enough for it to take No. 1 for the second consecutive weekend. Although it will almost certainly be usurped by the upcoming Marvel movie Thunderbolts* during its third weekend, it has become the first horror movie to spend two weekends atop the domestic chart since the Tim Burton horror-comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice debuted in September 2024.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice spent three weekends at No. 1 before it was usurped by The Wild Robot.
Between its additional domestic and international grosses during its second weekend in theaters, Sinners has surged past the $150 million milestone worldwide, reaching a cumulative global total of $161.6 million. It is only the fourth 2025 release to pᴀss that milestone so far, behind Disney’s live-action remake Snow White ($194.9 million), the Anthony Mackie-led Marvel Cinematic Universe outing Captain America: Brave New World ($414.8 million), the viral video game adaptation A Minecraft Movie ($773.3 million), and the smash hit Chinese animated movie Ne Zha 2 ($1.898 billion). It is also just the 64th horror movie to ever cross this milestone.
Sinners Set Multiple Records During Its Sophomore Weekend
Its Audience Hold Is Unprecedented
One of the most impressive aspects of the Sinners box office is the fact that its projected week-on-week drop is 9%. This marks the second-best week 2 drop for an R-rated movie in history, behind the slasher Heart Eyes. The latter тιтle, which had an unprecedented 19% rise, benefitted from the fact that its sophomore frame fell during Valentine’s Day weekend, a holiday during which the movie is set. Not only does Sinners not have that benefit, the horror genre is typically frontloaded, with тιтles generally being rocked by drops of 50% or more, marking it as a major outlier.
Sinners‘ audience hold was foreshadowed by the fact that it became the only horror movie in history to ever earn an “A” CinemaScore.
Sinners set a variety of other records during its second weekend at the domestic box office. This includes earning the second-best weekend 2 ever for an R-rated horror movie, only falling behind the $60 million haul of 2017’s It (which is the highest-grossing R-rated horror movie of all time). It also marks the best second weekend for director Ryan Coogler that isn’t for a movie that is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, falling behind the two Black Panther movies but landing ahead of both his feature-length directorial debut Fruitvale Station ($739,484) and the Oscar-nominated Rocky spinoff Creed ($14.99 million).
The Accountant 2 Earned $24.5 Million During Its Domestic Opening Weekend
It Roughly Matches The Original Movie
Meanwhile, the biggest incoming new release тιтle of the weekend is the Ben Affleck action movie legacy sequel. The Accountant 2 release is currently projected to debut at the domestic box office with a 3-day total of $24.5 million. This means that, in just three days, it has already outgrossed the entire domestic runs of quite a few major 2025 releases including the Blumhouse horror movie The Woman in the Yard ($22.4 million), the Alex Garland co-directed A24 movie Warfare ($24.1 million), the Steven Soderbergh spy thriller Black Bag ($21.4 million), and the Jack Quaid action comedy Novocaine ($19.9 million).
[2016’s] The Accountant debuted with a total of $24.7 million…
This opening weekend is set to hit almost exactly the same mark as the original movie. In 2016, The Accountant debuted with a total of $24.7 million at the domestic box office, coming in ever so slightly higher than the new movie’s projections. This may prove to be a problem, because the new movie’s reported budget is $80 million, which is nearly double that of its predecessor. If it continues on its current trajectory, it could earn roughly $154 million, but its increased budget most likely places its break-even point somewhere around $200 million, so it may fall considerably short.
The Accountant 2 Is Losing Second Place To A Star Wars Re-Release
Revenge Of The Sith Is Celebrating Its 20th Anniversary
Although it is performing decently well, the Ben Affleck movie is currently projected to lose second place in the weekend’s domestic Top 5 to the 20th anniversary re-release of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, which is set to debut with $25.2 million. This does not seem to be the result of the newer movie’s reviews, which have earned it a Certified Fresh 79% Rotten Tomatoes score. The 147 aggregated reviews include one from ScreenRant‘s own Graeme Guttman, who gave it a score of 7 out of 10. Read an excerpt from his The Accountant 2 review below:
It’s all very unexpected and if you go into the film thinking you’ll be getting a straightforward action movie, you may be disappointed. But if, like me, you enjoyed the first movie because of its idiosyncratic tone and didn’t mind that it was a little light on action, then I have some good news for you.
Both franchises have also had similar theatrical hiatuses, as there has not been a new Star Wars movie on the big screen since 2019’s Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. However, The Accountant 2 belongs to a franchise that has not had a chance to gain a foundation of fandom, as this nine-year delay came after its first-ever installment. While its opening weekend’s similarity to the original movie shows that it is continuing to appeal to its core audience, it seems that it just couldn’t compete with the iconic science fiction franchise or the runaway horror hit that is Sinners.
Source(s): Variety
