The Most Rented Redbox Movies Reveal That America Is Basic AF
The list of most rented Redbox movies is released, revealing that Americans who frequent the superstore DVD kiosk have pretty similar tastes in movies.
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Hail To The Chief: Grading The Impossible Choices Of Movie Presidents
With London Has Fallen opening this week, it's time to take a long, hard look at the best and worst movie presidents and assign their terms a letter grade.
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Four Of The Fifty Biggest Box Office Bombs Are In Theaters Right Now
Summer 2013 is on track to become the best ever at the domestic box office, but you wouldn't know it from the number of flops that have limped through theaters over the past few months. Indeed, by some measures, this season includes five of the fifty biggest flops of the past two decades. Moreover, of…
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Sony Invites Military Personnel To See 'White House Down' For Free On July 4
In America, July 4 is synonymous with several things: Barbecue, fireworks, baseball, apple pie and Roland Emmerich movies. That last one usually means his 1996 hit, Independence Day, but this year an equally patriotic, kick-ass action film from the director is in theaters: White House Down. To simultaneously help promote the fledgling film, and do something awesome for American military personnel, Sony has…
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Early Buzz: 'White House Down' Delivers Silly Summer Fun
Much as we appreciate big-budget blockbusters that aim to be deep or emotional or to impart profound life lessons, there comes a point in every summer when all we want to do is enjoy some expensive, well crafted mayhem. Arriving just in time for that moment this year is Roland Emmerich's White House Down. The…
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'White House Down' Extended Trailer: Four Minutes To Save The World
Roland Emmerich's White House Down is the second of two "Die Hard on Pennsylvania Avenue" pics to hit screens this year, but if it delivers on the promises made by this four-minute final trailer, it could just blow the other one out of the water altogether. It has all the ingredients for a satisfying summer…
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'White House Down' Trailer #2: All The Action And Explosions You'd Expect From Roland Emmerich
The first trailer for White House Down was exactly that: down. It had a very somber feel, almost like the movie was a drama with action elements. Now a second trailer for this summer's Roland Emmerich blockbuster has been released and it goes for the opposite feel. There's huge action, great character interaction, and, of course,…
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Watch A Single Movie Trailer For (Almost) All The Major Releases Of Summer 2013
Trailers! Who has time to watch them all? There are something like forty wide releases due out this summer alone. If you assume each trailer runs about two minutes, that's about an hour and half of your life you'll never get back. That's time you could've spent actually watching one of these movies. If you…
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/Film Interview: Director Roland Emmerich On The Set Of 'White House Down'
Everyone thought Roland Emmerich's next movie was going to be Singularity. But there we were, last year, on the Montreal set of White House Down, where even Emmerich himself is surprised. What happened? It's a simple story of Hollywood going a little old school. A studio buys what they feel is a great script, and executives…
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/Film Interview: Channing Tatum On The Set Of 'White House Down'
Channing Tatum doesn't act like he's famous. Even on the set of his upcoming movie, White House Down, the star of G.I. Joe, Magic Mike, Step Up and 21 Jump Street is humble, down to Earth and honest about his career. We spoke to the actor in Montreal last September. He said, after he next few…
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'White House Down' Set Visit: Channing Tatum And Roland Emmerich Make Quick Work Of The Summer Blockbuster
That dirty wifebeater Channing Tatum is wearing is no coincidence. “I’ve always wanted to do a Die Hard” admitted the actor and in his upcoming action film White House Down, he’s getting that chance. Director Roland Emmerich will once again reign havoc on the White House, this time with the help of John Cale (Tatum), a Secret Service…
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'White House Down' Trailer: Channing Tatum Plays 'Die Hard' In The White House
Former Secret Service agent John Cale (Channing Tatum) just wanted to take his daughter on a tour of the White House. Thank God he did. If it wasn't for him, who would look after the President (Jamie Foxx) when a group of international terrorists take over the world's most famous home? That's the basic plot…
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'White House Down' Teaser Posters: The Calm Before The Storm; Trailer Out Tuesday
UPDATE: A second poster has been added. Teaser poster Monday continues with the latest from the director of Independence Day. "It will start like any other day" says the first posters for Roland Emmerich's June 28 action film White House Down. The movie stars Channing Tatum as a secret service agent who finds himself in the…
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First Looks: 'White House Down' And 'Last Vegas' [UPDATED With Higher-Res Images]
UPDATE: Thanks to Collider, we've been able to update the post with higher-res versions of the same images. Click through to take a look. As the nation decides who'll get to take control the White House for the next four years, Channing Tatum's been running around trying to save it from takeover by evil forces. Actual…
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First Look: Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down' Starring Channing Tatum And Jamie Foxx
Anyone who follows me on Twitter probably knows that last week I was in Montreal visiting the set of Roland Emmerich's White House Down. Unfortunately, that's literally all I can say about it for now. But I'm not Entertainment Tonight. The TV entertainment show also visited the set (on a different day) and while I…
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'White House Down' Pulled Up To Summer 2013, Will Get Title Change
Briefly: Sony is pulling one of the next Channing Tatum movies, formerly called White House Down, up from a November 2013 release to a prime summer slot: June 28 2013. Roland Emmerich's film stars Tatum as a secret service agent who has to rescue the President (Jamie Foxx) from a paramilitary takeover of the White…
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Jamie Foxx Running For President (Of Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down') [UPDATED]
Jamie Foxx will next be seen playing a freed slave turned bounty hunter for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, but his role after that will have him climbing all the way to the tippy-top of American society. The star has just entered talks to play the President of the United States in the thriller White House Down,…
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Channing Tatum In Talks For Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down'
Even as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama race to win the White House, Roland Emmerich and Antoine Fuqua are competing to take it down. Both filmmakers are signed on to direct projects described as "Die Hard on Pennsylvania Avenue" -- Columbia's White House Down for Emmerich, and Millennium's Olympus Has Fallen for Fuqua. While Fuqua's…
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Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down' Invades Theaters Next Year
Sony has set a November 1, 2013 release date for their Roland Emmerich-directed action film, White House Down. Written by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac) it's about a "paramilitary take over of the White House," basically Die Hard meets Air Force One. Emmerich had previously reserved that date for his sci-fi film Singularity, but…
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Antoine Fuqua In Talks For The Other "Die Hard In The White House" Movie, 'Olympus Has Fallen'
Maybe it's got something to do with the current divisive political climate, or maybe election years just bring out the most destructive tendencies in people. More likely, it's just that weird Hollywood tendency to produce multiple films based on a single idea at the same time. (See also: Linda Lovelace, Snow White.) Whatever the reason,…
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Roland Emmerich Set To Direct "Die Hard On Pennsylvania Ave" Movie 'White House Down'
Roland Emmerich has already blown up the White House, in Independence Day, and now he's going to oversee a hostile takeover of the joint. The director is in talks to make White House Down, the script that The Amazing Spider-Man and Zodiac writer James Vanderbilt recently sold to Sony for a cool three million dollars.…
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'Zodiac' Writer James Vanderbilt Sells 'White House Down' To Sony, Will Polish 'RoboCop'
James Vanderbilt hit the screenwriter big time when he wrote Zodiac for David Fincher, and he was eventually tapped to work on the Spider-Man series for Sony. Now he's one of a few people credited on The Amazing Spider-Man. He has developed a working relationship with the studio, doing work on the Total Recall remake…
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