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THE ACCOUNTANT 2: Ben Affleck And Jon Bernthal Take On Their Biggest Puzzle Yet In The Official Trailer

Director Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 is out with a new poster and official trailer as of Thursday which you can view in the gallery below. The film will have its premiere next month at SXSW before heading to theaters on April 25 from Amazon MGM Studios. Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) has a talent for solving complex problems. When an old acquaintance is murdered, leaving behind a cryptic message to “find the accountant,” Wolff is compelled to solve the case. Realizing more extreme measures are necessary, Wolff recruits his estranged and highly lethal brother, Brax (Jon Bernthal), to help. In partnership with U.S. Treasury Deputy Director Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), they uncover a deadly conspiracy, becoming targets of a ruthless network of killers who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. The trailer below reveals definitively just whose death sets off the events of the sequel. I doubt […]

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THE ACCOUNTANT 2: New Details As The Sequel Moves To Amazon MGM

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New details are now out for The Accountant 2, marking the latest developments for the new sequel after years of development. Ben Affleck and Gavin O’Connor are teaming as star and director, respectively, following news earlier this year the film would begin production. The inaugural 2016 Warner Bros. release film, The Accountant, saw Affleck in the role of Christian Wolff, a math savant and certified accountant on the autism spectrum. His job routinely sees him uncooking the books for criminal organizations, and utilizing his skills as an assassin to keep going. His latest assignment then, at a Robotics firm leads to a series of deadly twists that eventually put him face-to-face in a violent family reunion with his brother, played by Jon Bernthal. The film also starred Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons, along, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson who plays a relentless Treasury agent hunting down Wolff’s real identity and whereabouts. All […]

‘WARRIOR’ TV Series Spin-Off Lands At Paramount+ With Additional Cast

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It was last Fall that Warrior helmer Gavin O’Connor made it known that a television spin-off of his hit 2011 film was in the works and in talks to streamers to help shop the series. On Thursday, Mike Fleming Jr.’s exclusive re-affirmed the show’s existence with word that Lionsgate Television is developing the ten-episode series for Paramount+. The report also notes that actress Gina Rodriguez (Miss Bala, I Want You Back) will join retired two-time UFC champion Daniel Cormier, who was attached as of September of 2021, to star in the series among its four main principal cast members. O’Connor is aiming to direct all ten episodes, and is creating the show with Adair Cole, with whom he will also serve as showrunner. The series, titled in previous reports as “Warriors”, wasn’t something O’Connor had in mind much less a sequel in the years since the inaugural MMA drama featuring Joel […]

WARRIORS: Gavin O’Connor, Lionsgate Will Return To The Octagon To Spin-Off His 2011 Cult MMA Hit Drama

Lee B. Golden III

Director Gavin O’Connor is partnering with Lionsgate for a television spin-off based on 2011 sports drama, Warrior. O’Connor, whose credits also include Miracle and The Way Back, confirmed as much in an interview with Discussing Film’s Michael Slavin on Tuesday. The reveal for the new show, Warriors, came during a portion of the interview regarding movie sequel prospects where O’Connor expressed having difficulty on “how to do it and make it better than the first one”, adding further on “…I knew if I couldn’t make a better movie, or at least make something that had some kind of artistic merit that’s worth asking people to spend money to go see it, I just didn’t want to like fucking prostitute myself. And so I never was able to…” O’Connor continued onward, laying the groundwork for the show’s plot and citing that the characters from the 2011 film would be replaced with […]