Turns out two movies about the president's progeny were two too many: Both films flopped big at the box office. Later in that election year, First Daughter opened in theaters with Katie Holmes in the lead role.
released the Mandy Moore vehicle Chasing Liberty, which told the story of the President of the United States’ 18-year-old daughter and her misadventures overseas. Chasing Liberty (released January 9, 2004) // First Daughter (released September 24, 2004) Neither took home the Best Picture Oscar-that went to Shakespeare in Love-but Spielberg wound up winning Best Director. While Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan followed the invasion of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the war's Atlantic Theater, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line focused on the Battle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific. Saving Private Ryan (released: July 24, 1998) // The Thin Red Line (released: December 23, 1998)įor the 71st Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated two World War II films for Best Picture and Best Director. Babe blew Gordy out of the water: It earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and Best Director, beat out Apollo 13 for the Best Visual Effects Oscar, and would eventually spawn a sequel, Babe: Pig in the City. The world is still waiting for a Gordy sequel. A few months later, Universal released Babe, which revolved around a sheep-herding pig. In May, Miramax released Gordy, which followed the adventures of a pig trying to find his family after they were taken away to be slaughtered. Gordy (released: May 12, 1995) // Babe (released: August 4, 1995)īelieve it or not, in 1995 two talking-pig movies competed for family box office dollars. That flick grossed $122.8 million internationally, proving that the country's thirst for seeing mountains go boom can't be satiated with just one movie. A few months later, Twentieth Century Fox released Volcano which also featured-you guessed it-a volcano. In 1997, Universal Pictures' volcano thriller Dante’s Peak raked in an impressive $178.1 million at the box office worldwide. Dante’s Peak (released February 7, 1997) // Volcano (released April 25, 1997) Although White House Down had a wider summer release, Olympus Has Fallen saw higher box office returns. That year's other save-the-prez effort, White House Down, featured Jamie Foxx as the president with Channing Tatum in the role of a Secret Service hopeful tasked with keeping him safe. Released in March 2013, Olympus Has Fallen featured Aaron Eckhart has the captured president with Gerard Butler as the Secret Service agent who re-captures the White House and saves him from certain doom.
#WHITE HOUSE DOWN SIMILAR MOVIES MOVIE#
In 2013, two different movie studios released two different films about terrorist groups invading and taking over the White House. Olympus Has Fallen (released March 22, 2013) // White House Down (released June 28, 2013) Although astronomers called Deep Impact more scientifically accurate, Armageddon was selected to be in the prestigious Criterion Collection, which is reserved for (in their own words) "important classic and contemporary films." 3. One movie showed how families and modern civilization would be affected by an asteroid collision, while the other was a loud, action-packed thrill ride from director Michael Bay. Deep Impact (released May 8, 1998) // Armageddon (released July 1, 1998)ĭuring the summer of 1998, Dreamworks and Touchstone Pictures released two rival asteroid disaster movies: Deep Impact and Armageddon, respectively. Though Hollywood studios develop films separately, sometimes movies that are eerily similar will be released in the same calendar year.
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