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Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock powered The Heat with laughter to a strong opening on Friday, easily surpassing Roland Emmerich's assault on Washington, D.C. White House Down with Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx.

In 2013, he transitioned into working in feature films and has worked on major Hollywood studio films such as Total Recall, White House Down, Aloha, Storks, and The Dark Tower.

Though Murray wasn't in control of the committee, she could help bring along the White House down the line — and help sell House Democrats on a bill, too.

James Vanderbilt is a screenwriter who in recent years has written, among other things, Andrew Garfield's The Amazing Spider - Man, White House Down, and The Amazing Spider - Man 2.

From the director of the summer blockbusters Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow comes White House Down.

WHY: Antoine Fuqua may have beat Roland Emmerich's «White House Down» to the punch by being the first Presidential action flick out of the gate, but not without the final product suffering as a result.

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Nearly two decades after he first publicly fantasized about the destruction of Washington, D.C., in Independence Day (1996), he's back with another massive imagined attack on our nation's capital in White House Down — this time not via alien invasion, but a humanity - driven inside job.

Reddick was previously seen in White House Down, with Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

First and foremost, White House Down is a comedy.

Roland Emmerich, the king of disaster films makes yet another falling building, explosion filled action / comedy extravaganza with White House Down.

When: June 28th Why: «Olympus Has Fallen» may have beaten «White House Down» to the punch by arriving in theaters a few months earlier, but when it comes to wreaking havoc on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, no one does it better than Roland Emmerich.

White House Down is one of those movies that makes you feel dumber every second you're watching it and thanks

Similarly, the roster of performers that also includes Luis Guzman (We're the Millers), Ken Jeong (Despicable Me 2), Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious 6) and Richard Jenkins (White House Down) tries to invest added energy, but remains in the realm of celebrity stunt casting.

Despite all those advantages and the fact that among such similar pairs the second movie to open has generally performed better, Olympus Has Fallen surprisingly performed significantly better than the subsequent White House Down, doing more business both domestically and abroad despite minimal difference in critic and moviegoer sentiment.

Jason Clarke most recently starred in The Great Gatsby and White House Down.

Following breakthrough roles in films like Zero Dark Thirty, Lawless and The Great Gatsby over the past year (as well as a turn in White House Down), Australian actor Jason Clarke is making quite a name for himself.

«Indepence Day» director Roland Emmerich discussed the upcoming sequel to his film while on a press tour for his movie «White House Down.»

There was a war going on in 2013 — a battle forged at the box office between director Antoine Fuqua's OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN and director Roland Emmerich's WHITE HOUSE DOWN.

At one point Jenko comes - up with an idea of working as Secret Service agents for the President, which was the goal of Tatum's character in last year's «White House Down».

I've got to admit that I was one of the few to favour the Channing Tatum / Jamie Foxx Die - Hard - In - The - White - House movie White House Down over...

The other one, White House Down, starred Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, opened at the height of the summer movie season, was rated PG - 13, was the work of director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) and writer James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), had more than twice the budget, and the backing of media giant Sony's primary Columbia Pictures division.

Emmerich however, never really seems to have this problem, even during his movies that I actively hate for other reasons such as White House Down that was released in 2013.

Based on Mary Mapes» «Truth and Duty: The Press, The President, and the Privilege of Power» (2005), screenwriter James Vanderbilt («White House Down,» «Zodiac») makes an auspicious directing debut with this layered, detailed condemnation of how Internet obsession with minutia / gossip has obliterated the big picture — and responsible reporting can not be rushed.

Jamie Foxx is set to star as the US President in «White House Down».

The film is directed by Anna Forrester, who previously served as the cinematographer for White House Down, and is out now!

WHITE HOUSE DOWN — A bone - headed script and witless characters are the real threats in this shoot»em up political un-thriller.

However, «White House Down» does benefit from some great chemistry between Tatum and Foxx, and the supporting cast is excellent, even if many of the actors are wasted in throwaway roles.

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White House Down, the latest from disaster film director par excellence Roland Emmerich, performs such a dance of prevarication with all the outwardly liberal leanings of the 18 - 34 millennial demographic.

The Bridesmaids filmmaker revealed the White House Down heartthrob is his top choice to play one of the lead roles in the upcoming film, which he is currently developing, reported Cinema Blend.

This may be the strangest casting article ever written, but here it goes: Lance Reddick (Fringe) is in talks to star in Roland Emmerich's White House Down, starring Channing Tatum as a Secret Service agent.

However I feel that White House Down is a much better film for one simple reason; the stupidity and hokey nature is fully embraced and it works because of this.

In the opening scene, Elisa is asleep in a room filled with water as the narrator, whom we later find out is her neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins, «White House Down»), describes her as a princess in a fairy tale and Alexandre Desplat's score persuades us that the world is filled with childlike wonder, but it is a hard sell.

This newest version, White House Down (directed by Roland Emmerich, «Anonymous «-RRB- has much more humor than the Gerard Butler vehicle.

«White House Down» should not be as enjoyable as it is.

Tatum spent the White House Down press tour doing his best Cajun accent in an attempt to get a Gambit film off the ground.

This wouldn't be the first time Hollywood's had similar themed blockbusters squaring off against each other, even this year has OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN and WHITE HOUSE DOWN testing the audience's capacity for double trouble.

The level of cheese in White House Down makes Fast & Furious 6 look like an Oscar contender for best picture.

And while those are both good sources (don't let anyone tell you otherwise about «Con Air»), «White House Down» makes too many rookie mistakes to be put in the same league as the other two.

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Roland Emmerich somehow finds a way in the numbing «White House Down,» a movie that make absolutely no sense but fails to entertain as B - movie escapism (as his movies sometimes have in the past).

Playing by the rules, White House Down plunges aspiring Secret Service agent John Cale (Channing Tatum, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) into the depths of his ideal job when a band of disaffected mercenaries (The Great Gatsby's Jason Clarke, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter's Jimmi Simpson, and Streetdance 2's Falk Hentschel among them) take over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

These are the characters that populate White House Down, stereotypes that could easily be drawn from the rest of the filmmaker's output.

The other film is Roland Emmerich's «White House Down» in June and it is said to have a 1980s buddy cop - flavored approach.

Finally, as Roland Emmerich's Presidential siege thriller «White House Down» grows more outlandishly wacky with every new plot detail, it's obvious he'll need a strong cast to carry the special - effects - laden narrative to success.

Trends of the Year: Sex addiction (Don Jon, Thanks for Sharing), shipwrecks (Gravity, All Is Lost), the skin trade (Lovelace, The Look of Love), taking the White House hostage (Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down), the apocalypse as comedy (This Is the End, The World's End), slow cartoon protagonists who nonetheless win the big race (Turbo, Planes), likable character actors who are revealed to be villains in the final reel (Star Trek Into Darkness, White House Down, The Lone Ranger)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment presents two of Hollywood's most sought - after actors, Channing Tatum (21 Jump Street, Magic Mike) and Academy Award ® winner Jamie Foxx (Best Actor, Ray, 2005) in White House Down to be released on to Blu - ray and DVD January 20th 2014

White House Down — like pretty much every other Emmerich movie apart from the odd foray into literary conspiracy theory — is a crisply made but profoundly ridiculous exercise in Blowing Things Up.