That says a lot about the summer marketplace and how a unique slate of films can propel the box office.’ ‘There’s a G-rated movie at the top of the chart and an R-rated movie in second place. ‘I think the variety of films is what brought people out to the movie theaters,’ said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker. Overseas, the globe-trotting zombie thriller starring Brad Pitt cleared $70.1 million in 51 territories. Meanwhile, Paramount’s ‘World War Z’ took another bite out of the box office in its second weekend domestically with $29.8 million. ‘We had hoped ‘White House Down’ did better, just from the standpoint that we love this film, but I feel very hopeful that with the July 4th holiday coming up, it will be the perfect film for audiences, and it’ll really add up for us.’ ‘It turned out to be a very competitive weekend,’ said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution.

The film’s White House takeover plot is strikingly similar to FilmDistrict’s ‘Olympus Has Fallen,’ which opened in March and starred Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart. ‘White House Down,’ which features Tatum as a wannabe Secret Service agent and Foxx as the President of the United States of America, was inaugurated below expectations in fourth place. We positioned this to be a female event movie, and we got the opening that we were hoping for this weekend.’ ‘I think the fact that we have a female-centric movie standing out in a forest of giant tent-pole movies is phenomenal,’ said Chris Aronson, Fox’s president of domestic distribution.

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