It's already three years since director Nima Nourizadeh put the tricks of the microbudget found-footage horror trade to use on the teen comedy genre and came up with Project X. Polarising as the finished product was, a sequel has been talked about ever since, and Warner Bros. have now announced Project XX's release date, along with arrival times for The Accountant and **Arms And The Dudes.
Not much is yet known about the hard-partying follow-up, outside the fact that original co-writer Michael Bacall has been working on it solo this time. No director is yet attached, and it's unclear whether Todd Phillips will return as producer. And given the time elapsed and the cast's advanced age, it seems unlikely that any of the first gang will be back - unless we ditch the high-school angle and put them in college or something. Even then, we'll be amazed if they get Miles Teller back. But whatever, it's out on August 19, 2016.
Phillips and Teller, however, have reteamed for Arms And The Dudes, which also stars Jonah Hill. The stoner drama is based on a Rolling Stone article from 2011 about two Miami slackers who stumbled into gun-running and ended up with a Pentagon contract and a dangerous gig in Afghanistan. That's now due out on March 11, 2016.
And The Accountant sees Ben Affleck shrugging off the batcape and aiming for some of that Taken action as a mild-mannered moneyman who moonlights as an assassin. Jeffrey Tambor, Anna Kendrick and JK Simmons co-star, and we'll see Affleck take aim on January 29, 2016.
In terms of competition, Project XX currently finds itself up against nothing but Travis Knight's stop-motion animation Kubo And The Two Strings. Arms And The Dudes will face off against Matthew McConaughey in The Free State Of Jones, an as-yet unnamed sci-fi from JJ Abrams' Bad Robot stable, and the Anne Rice adaptation Christ The Lord. And The Accountant has to deal with Disney's The Finest Hours and Dreamworks' Kung-Fu Panda 3.