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One of the most commonly asked questions that people have regarding White House Down is “Why? Why on Earth was this film necessary?” After all, we just watched the same movie, Olympus Has Fallen, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart, so why, then, do we want to see Roland Emmerich, Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx drag us through another story about terrorists taking over the White House and a secret service agent/wannabe rescuing the president?

And the answer is White House Down, like the chicken, was created first. At least I assume it was, because Sony paid screenwriter du jour James Vanderbilt $3 million for his Die Hard clone, while Olympus was written by first-timers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. So if Sony ponied up $3 million to create a duplicate, well, that’s a sucker move.

So what exactly does a $3 million spec script include anyway? According to the new trailer for White House Down, it’s the black President of the United States shouting, “Don’t! Ever! Touch! My! Jordans!” Seriously, this trailer is a work of art.

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Olympus Has Fallen has been in theaters since Friday and has already grossed $33 million on a $70 million budget, and it is also holding strong on Rotten Tomatoes with 50% and 79% critics and audience ratings, respectively. The plot, in case you have amnesia, involves a shamed Secret Service agent (Gerard Butler) rescuing the president (Aaron Eckhart) after an attack on the White House by North Koreans. Olympus was written by first-timers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, who sold their script to Millenium Films in March 2012.

Opening on June 28, White House Down also involves an attack on the White House, but this time it is by a paramilitary group, and the right place/right time hero is a local cop (Channing Tatum) on a tour of the president’s crib. WHD was written by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac, Basic, The Rundown, etc.) who sold his script to Sony for $2 million, also in March 2012.

As for which movie White Housed it better, that has yet to be determined. But we finally have a trailer for White House Down, and that’s a crip walk in the right direction.

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Opening Everywhere: The Croods, Admission, Spring Breakers, Olympus Has Fallen

FilmDrunk Suggests: That video above. It’s a dog named Milo dressed as the characters from The Wizard of Oz. It’s certainly a lot better than watching Gerard Butler sweat C-Tates’ jock. But it’s also not better than watching Ashley Benson and those other girls do stuff in bikinis, so plan your weekend accordingly.

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This is one of five new character posters for Spring Breakers released this week, this one for Vanessa Hudgens’ character, Candy. I may be reading into this too much, but this seems a little sexually suggestive to me. Am I crazy? Then again, as Freud once said, “Sometimes a nubile, half-naked teen shooting a finger pistol into her eager mouth is just a a nubile, half-naked teen shooting a finger pistol into her eager mouth.”
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Look, I’ve learned a few things about this blogging game, and one lesson I didn’t miss was that if you’ve got a picture of a dog in mask, you lead with that. So this is a still from Kick-Ass 2, featuring Jim Carrey as “Colonel Stars and Stripes.” Matthew Vaughn isn’t directing this one  – Jeff Wadlow, who directed Never Back Down, is – which makes me very skeptical. But if its got dogs in superhero costumes? It’s a start.

Captain Ameridog keeps his identity a secret so his enemies can’t go after his bitches.

[Picture via EntertainmentWeekly]

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