It’s Magic Mike and Django headlining one of the summer’s biggest action flicks, Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, out June 28th. Emmerich is known for being the director who knows how to blow shit up real good, as he’s proven with Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow.
This time around, the White House is overtaken by terrorists as secret service agent Channing Tatum must protect the U.S. President, played by Jamie Foxx. Plot sound familiar? It should. This spring’s Olympus Has Fallen seems like the same movie and it unexpectedly turned into a sleeper hit as it continues to inch its way past the $100 million dollar mark. Expectations are higher for White House Down and it’s likely to deliver potent numbers in the neighborhood of $140 million or higher.
Opening August 2nd is 2 Guns, with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg pitted against a drug cartel. Both have had their share of success in the genre and as long as 2 Guns delivers even on a fairly satisfactory level, its numbers should be solid.
Paul Walker is bound to have a massive hit with the sixth Fast and the Furious pic (already covered in my sequels post). He’s got a smaller action thriller June 14th titled Vehicle 19. Judging from the trailer, it’s got Paul Walker in a car and that’s worked out pretty well before.
Another action genre entry is Getaway with Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez which involves a kidnapping plot. It’s out August 30th and no trailer has been released at press time.
Coming next to the 2013 Summer Movie Preview – movies that will attempt to make you laugh (also known as comedies) and they feature Melissa McCarthy, Seth Rogen, Kristin Wiig, and the re-teaming of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
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