--- --- # Ben Affleck's _The Accountant_ Gets Jan. 29 Release by [Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly May 20, 2015 12:53 AM UTC by [Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly May 20, 2015 12:53 AM UTC Ben Affleck’s _The Accountant_, his first film since _Gone Girl_ and another thriller, has been given a Jan. 29, 2016 release date from Warner Bros. In the film, Affleck plays a bright accountant who works as an assassin on the side. The Gavin O’Connor-directed film co-stars Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal and Cynthia Addai-Robinson. The script comes from Bill Dubuque and producers include Lynette Howell and Mark Williams. EW has also confirmed the release dates for the Warner Bros. films _Arms and the Dudes,_ a crime-comedy starring Miles Teller and Jonah Hill, and _Project XX_, a sequel to the 2012 high-school comedy _Project X_, as March 11, 2016 and Aug. 19, 2016 respectively. The studio also shifted the release of their untitled New Line Horror film, moved from Jan. 29 to Jan. 22, 2016, and has removed their WB special event film, originally slated for Jan. 15, 2016, from the schedule. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/19/ben-afflecks-accountant-gets-jan-29-release)_originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com) Ben Affleck's 'The Accountant' Gets Jan. 29 Release ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3890210/ben-affleck-movie-the-accountant-january/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3890210/ben-affleck-movie-the-accountant-january/"},"headline":"Ben Affleck's The Accountant Gets Jan. 29 Release","datePublished":"2015-05-20T00:53:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:28:25.201Z","description":"He plays a bright accountant who works as an assassin on the side","url":"https://time.com/3890210/ben-affleck-movie-the-accountant-january/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jennifer Maas / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3890210/ben-affleck-movie-the-accountant-january/","name":"Ben Affleck's The Accountant Gets Jan. 29 Release"}}]}] ```