Tag: White House Down
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Here’s Why ‘White House Down’ Went from Box Office Bomb to 2023 Netflix Hit
Over the 4th of July weekend, 2023 on Netflix, White House Down became the most-watched film on the service. It’s incredibly easy to see why. Its patriotic nature (given that it involves a heroic U.S. president played by Jamie Foxx) made it fitting for the holiday, while its zippy tone and PG-13 rating also made…
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2013 Was the Year of Dueling White House Action Movies
2013 was the year that the Die Hard franchise finally met its bitter end. Although opinions on 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard were mixed, the resounding response to 2013’s A Good Day To Die Hard was that it was finally to let this franchise rest with Hans Gruber in its grave. It was getting…
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Lance Reddick Remembered By Hollywood, ‘The Wire,’ ‘John Wick’ Colleagues
Beloved actor Lance Reddick’s sudden, tragic passing earlier today has left many fans and members of the industry utterly stunned. The star was just about to take the big screen once again with John Wick: Chapter 4, returning as the Continental’s steadfast concierge Charon. He’s shown how much he had to offer to acting, whether…
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Dueling Documentaries in the Works About Boeing 737 Max Air Disasters
Armageddon and Deep Impact. Antz and A Bug’s Life. Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down. They’re called twin films — movies with similar premises released right on top of each other. The most recent example was the strange case of Fyre and Fyre Fraud, competing and complimentary documentaries about the ill-fated Fyre Festival that…
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Roland Emmerich to Receive Zurich Film Festival Tribute
“Independence Day” director Roland Emmerich will be honored with a special tribute at the Zurich Film Festival.The Swiss event will screen a retrospective of Emmerich’s work and give him its “A Tribute to…” award Sept. 29. The screenings will include the director’s debut movie, “The Noah Ark Principle,” which played in competition at the 1984…
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Angel Has Fallen: is Gerard Butler Hollywood’s weirdest action hero?
Inane, profane and wholly humourless, the Fallen trilogy would be beyond redemption were it not for the thirsty work of its starThe many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics states that every possible outcome to every decision ever made will each happen, and each outcome exists in its own parallel universe. I am telling you this because…