Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is suddenly overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. White House Down – Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Using his inside knowledge, Banning works with national security in an effort to rescue the President (Aaron Eckhart) from his kidnappers and avert an even bigger disaster. Olympus Has Fallen – When the White House (Secret Service codename: “Olympus”) is captured by terrorists, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning (Gerald Butler) seemingly finds himself trapped inside, in the wake of the attack. So here we go, Olympus Has Fallen versus White House Down, the particulars and non-particulars with spoilers included. Well it’s simple, this ‘versus’ article is something we could not pass up (or maybe it’s just me). I know what you’re thinking, why are we waiting so long to review either of these films. As such that brings us to the films Olympus Has Fallen (2013) which released earlier this year in March and the recent late June release of White House Down (2013). But it’s definitely curious when two films of the exact same premise (albeit a couple-to-few differences) release so close to one another. It saturates the market in the same way comic-book themed films are now the dominating source of income. A film costing approximately $140 million, but went onto gross roughly $554 million worldwide.ĭoes Hollywood even care? Probably (and) not. It was the more humanistic story versus the ‘then’ more star-studded glamour of Armageddon. Deep Impact came out on at a budget of approximately $80 million and went on to gross roughly $350 million worldwide.

It’s happened before and it continues to happen even now, when two similarly-themed films release within the same calendar year. Why yes there is room for you Deep Impact (1998), why thank you Armageddon (1998).

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