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Raphelson, who is on a call from Sawyer discussing the peace treaty's impact on the military-industrial complex, remains unharmed and is taken by Finnerty to an underground command center in the Pentagon, while Vice President Alvin Hammond is taken aboard Air Force One. Meanwhile, white nationalist Conrad Cern disguises himself as a Capitol janitor and detonates a bomb at the center of the Capitol building, resulting in the collapse of the rotunda. After lying to Emily about the outcome of the interview, she and Cale join a tour of the White House guided by Donnie Donaldson. However, his hopes are dashed when the interview is conducted by Carol Finnerty, a former college acquaintance of his who believes him to be unqualified due to a lack of respect for authority and follow-through. He is struggling to develop a better relationship with his daughter Emily, who has a strong enthusiasm for politics, and tries impressing her by getting a job with the Secret Service. John Cale is a Capitol Police officer assigned to Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson, whose nephew he saved from an IED explosion while on a tour in Afghanistan. President James Sawyer receives controversy over a proposed peace treaty between allied countries to remove military forces out of the Middle East. When the White House is taken over by a paramilitary mercenary group, led by vengeful United States Secret Service presidential detail chief Martin Walker (Woods) and embittered ex- Delta Force commando Emil Stenz (Clarke), Cale has to save President James Sawyer (Foxx), Emily and also prevent the start of World War III.Īlthough White House Down was met with a mixed reception, it had much warmer reception than competitor Olympus Has Fallen but was a box-office flop. Capitol Police officer John Cale (Tatum) takes his estranged daughter Emily (King) on a tour of the White House after being rejected to join the Secret Service. The film was in competition with another Die Hard in the White House film, called Olympus Has Fallen. The worldwide cume was $205.3M and Sony would see returned about $112.9M after theaters take their percentage of the gross - which would probably cover the global P&A spend, but the theatrical receipts would barely dent the budget.White House Down is an American action-thriller film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by James Vanderbilt and starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, Joey King, and James Woods.
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Overseas numbers were $132,262,953, not nearly enough to push the movie out of the red. White House Down continued to post large weekly declines and ended its disappointing run with a less than blockbuster $73,103,784. The Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx vehicle declined 45.8% the following weekend to $13,478,486 and then sank 54.3% in its third session to $6,162,633. White House Down was tracking for an opening in the low-thirty millions, but came in below expectations with $24,852,258 - placing #4 for the weekend led by Monsters University. White House Down bowed against the action comedy The Heat and there was a glut of action fare already in release that was targeting similar demos: World War Z, Fast And Furious 6 and Man Of Steel. Sony heavily marketed White House Down and according to released documents from wikileaks, the studio spent $55.055 million on a domestic marketing blitz. Olympus turned into a surprise hit - turning White House Down into expensive sloppy seconds. Sony first dated White House Down for November 1, but moved it forward to June 28, to try to beat Olympus Has Fallen to theaters, but FilmDistrict rushed Olympus out the gate on March 22.
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The writers must have used the same automated software writing program. Two weeks before the Sony spec sale on White House Down, another spec with the same premise sold to Millennium, which became the rival project Olympus Has Fallen.
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The box office failure of this film hopefully put a kibosh on how many more times Roland Emmerich can lay waste to the white house. In the Wikileaks hacked emails, Sony listed the loss from White House Down in the financial quarter at $35 million. The budget for White House Down $150 million and Sony financed the expensive tentpole.
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Sony began development on White House Down in 2012, when they purchased the spec script from James Vanderbilt for a huge $3 million - which was basically Die Hard meets every other action movie since the 1980s.