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Big Return For Accountant

When a big-time win is dependent on tracking money—lots and lots of money—it’s good to have a talented CPA on your team.

The Accountant whipped out its handy-dandy abacus and crunched the numbers until they were all smashed to a fine powder. By the time all the credits had been credited, the debits debited and the red and black numbers had been blended into a nice shade of maroon, The Accountant found out that, hey, it was the weekend’s top money maker.

Not that you really needed a good bean counter to figure that out, once you got a quick glance at the receipts. The Accountant earned $24.7 million—more than twice as much as its nearest competitors—which means that even a fairly intelligent bean plant could’ve probably gotten it right. (Take lima beans. They seem pretty smart.)

But while first place might’ve been a no-brainer, a good bookkeeper would come in handy in deciding what movie took second.

Kevin Hart’s comedy concert film Kevin Hart: What Now? and the mystery thriller The Girl on the Train, both products of Universal Pictures, were locked in an epic struggle for the weekend’s silver medal. Early estimates have Hart just a wee bit ahead of the Train, banking $11,984,245. Train’s estimates enter the station at right around $11,974,915—less than $10,000 behind. Considering Chris Rock’s daughter’s Girl Scout troop raised more than $65,000 at this year’s Oscars telecast selling cookies, it seems reasonable that the makers of The Girl on the Train could make up the difference with a quick bake sale.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues to slide down the box office hill, finishing in fourth place with $8.9 million. Deepwater Horizon closed out the Top Five with a $6.4 million weekend.

Two other movies to make note of. Max Steel, the weekend’s third major release, melted down quickly. It earned just $2.2 million to finish 11th. And Priceless, a Christian film that focuses on the horrors of human trafficking, earned more than $700,000 in about 300 theaters to finish 15th.

Final figures update: There was indeed a shakeup for second and third: The Girl on the Train hopped up to No. 2 with $12.2 million, while Kevin Hart: What Now? finished third with $11.8 million. The Accountant’s final tally was unchanged at $24.7 million. Elsewhere, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was fourth with $9 million, and Deepwater Horizon finished fifth with $6.4 million.