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Hollywood’s Latest Bomb? ‘White House Down’ Struggling at the Box Office
Variety ^ | June 28, 2013

Posted on 06/29/2013 7:16:37 PM PDT by SMGFan

Less than a month after Will Smith’s “After Earth” crashed at the box office, Sony finds itself in another predicament with Roland Emmerich’s “White House Down.”

The $150 million action thriller, starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, is the studio’s most expensive film of the summer but may debut as poorly as fourth place this weekend with a projected $27 million.

Not only are the early estimates soft for a project Sony bought in a record spec deal for $3 million in 2012, it’s actually worse than this year’s other White House thriller, “Olympus Has Fallen,” which opened to $30.8 million for FilmDistrict on a much smaller budget ($70 million).

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To: SMGFan

Thrillers and scifi are supposed to be tales which present the audience an altered reality.

The problem is that the White House has been deep in the sh*t for more than four years, with very little more that can be done, so these films are actually more in the vein of documentaries than anything else.

Disaster flicks aren’t any fun when the disaster has actually already occurred.


101 posted on 06/29/2013 10:46:46 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: napscoordinator

You’re not getting it and neither is Sony. Once a lot of us would have paid to see jamie foxx AND especially wil smith. Then we found out that jamie foxx is an effing racist, leftist scum, and wil smith is one of obama’s biggest bundlers, The hell with that.


102 posted on 06/29/2013 10:53:23 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Marie

Sounds like 7 days in May.


103 posted on 06/29/2013 11:12:24 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Hardraade

I heard its another remake of Die Hard without Bruse Willis. In this one Obama is a macho President (Ha ha) like the guy in Air Force One film long ago. He saves the day—Another Hollywood attempt to continue the Fantasy that Obama is a he man. too bad he isn’t—the actor playing Obama would be a better President than him! Bruce Willis would be a better President!


104 posted on 06/29/2013 11:13:46 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: LadyDoc

I said the same thing!


105 posted on 06/29/2013 11:13:54 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: napscoordinator
I don't think every Black person is Obama.
For reference here's a picture of Obama playing golf.


106 posted on 06/29/2013 11:24:57 PM PDT by MaxMax (If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention)
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To: GeronL

The oval office is destroyed every time zero enters...


107 posted on 06/30/2013 1:51:59 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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To: SMGFan

Foxx also said it was fun shooting white people (re Django movie)

Racist crap is not cute


108 posted on 06/30/2013 2:27:21 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: SMGFan

All purchases are political. If the movie is made by a leftist or has a leftist message, I will not see it. America is in too much trouble today for me to voluntarily fund our enemies.


109 posted on 06/30/2013 4:22:38 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: shalom aleichem

I once saw Foxx being interviewed on BET by some pale-skinned, semi-black reporter. And Foxx was hitting on him, making all kinds of not-too-subtle comments about his looks. And I thought, “I didn’t know Jamie Foxx was gay.”


110 posted on 06/30/2013 4:23:15 AM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)
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To: noiseman

They do that frequently. Antz and A Bug’s Life came out around the same time.


111 posted on 06/30/2013 5:34:15 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: napscoordinator
Jamie Foxx was outstanding in the movie. Who cares what his politics are.

I actually do these days. I am tired of the propaganda against the right and no longer support those who are constantly telling me I am evil because I believe in the principles this country was founded on.

You go to a movie to enjoy it not worry about some politics.

I also have no wish to pay to watch my beliefs being trashed when the movie could have been made so all could enjoy. They made a choice to spew their propaganda I made a choice not to buy it.

Good grief. Conservatives never make movies but sure do complain. Oh that is right. They made the biggest bomb in the history of movie making. An American Carol.....I would go see anything compared to that crap. I want conservatives to make good movies. I really do....but they don’t have the ability too for some reason.

Good grief! If you want to go sit in a liberal propaganda eye candy movie go for it. It is not hard to imagine why we are sick to death of them and have no interest in seeing a liberal black egghead president pull out his hero suit and save the day against evil right wing fanatics.

Democrats good, republicans evil, DONE TO DEATH in Hollywood, and at this point is nothing but crappy propaganda from the left and has no basis in reality. It is not like we could not figure out the plot the first time a preview was shown for this movie and roll our eyes.

It is no wonder this movie bombed.

112 posted on 06/30/2013 5:51:34 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: SMGFan
So this weekend Despicable Me II will probably be number 1. I wonder how the Johnny Depp Lone Ranger remake will do? Two? Three? Worse?
113 posted on 06/30/2013 6:01:04 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: bkopto
Yes a black actor who gloats on national TV over his movie role of killing ALL the white people at a time when black on white racially motivated violence is epidemic compared to the reverse gets no flack. " I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?" But a Paula Deen who honestly admits that she used the N years ago is savaged. Never ever go to any movie where this racist scum, Jamie Foxx is in the script. And post these quotes of him gloating over killing white people in a movie script where ever possible.
114 posted on 06/30/2013 6:14:07 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: napscoordinator
Good grief. Conservatives never make movies but sure do complain. Oh that is right. They made the biggest bomb in the history of movie making. An American Carol.....I would go see anything compared to that crap. I want conservatives to make good movies. I really do....but they don’t have the ability too for some reason.

LOL! I forgot about American Carol. What a steaming pile. You see, conservatives don't get subtlety. They think anything with a conservative message has to be overtly labeled "conservative", thus polluting the message.

You are correct, of course. Conservatives openly mock anyone who gets a degree in anything to do with the arts, and then wonder why the arts don't represent their views.

115 posted on 06/30/2013 6:15:50 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

Hey FREEPERS, if you want to see a white President of the United States in entertainment, you should check out Scandal. It will be so great to see President Bush as the President of the United States in that show. It is heading into it’s third season in September. I am sure that you can catch up with the first two seasons on Amazon Instant Video. That should make you all happy!!!!!! lol.


116 posted on 06/30/2013 6:42:26 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: napscoordinator

No, I just used the example to show how the media is portraying the movie. And you apparently have no way of dealing with that other than being an a-hole.


117 posted on 06/30/2013 6:48:59 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

I was just pointing out facts since I did see the movie. Pointing out facts always cause somebody to be rattled and call the other person an a$$hole. That is human nature.


118 posted on 06/30/2013 6:56:57 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: napscoordinator

Dumbass, I was the one pointing out the fact. I related what I saw in the interview. For some reason YOU took that personally. You are so thin skinned that you take offense at something that isn’t even about you. And you are an a-hole as you posts to people about this movie clearly show. And I am not the only one who has come to that correct conclusion.


119 posted on 06/30/2013 7:03:55 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: napscoordinator
Conservatives make bad movies? Seen anything Eastwood has done? Tom Selleck? Sure we can quibble on how conservative they are but at least they didn't vote for Obama.

How about Team America World Police, funny as hell movie. The South Park guys are supposedly Conservative Republicans.
I'm sure there are more examples, and of course there are closet Republicans in Hollywood.

120 posted on 06/30/2013 9:11:02 AM PDT by DAC21
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