Channing Tatum’s 12-Year-Old Action Thriller Gets Free Streaming Home

Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx‘s 2013 action thriller film White House Down can now be watched for free. The movie is officially streaming on Tubi as of Feb. 1.

White House Down‘s new streaming home comes directly after the Channing Tatum film left Netflix on Jan. 31 alongside 21 and 22 Jump Street. In the movie, Tatum stars as divorced US Capitol Police officer John Cale, who finds himself fighting to rescue his daughter and the President of the United States (Jamie Foxx) when a terrorist attack occurs in the White House. Other cast members in the film included Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins and James Woods.

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Tatum and Foxx’s chemistry was one of White House Down‘s strengths, according to critics, but it wasn’t enough to stop the film’s mixed reviews. It currently has a 52% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with narrative clichés and poorly edited action cited as one of the major drawbacks to the political thriller. White House Down grossed $205 million worldwide against its budget of $150 million.

White House Down ended up being one of two films released in 2013 depicting a terrorist attack on the White House, with Olympus Has Fallen being released three months prior to White House Down‘s theatrical debut. Both movies received mixed reviews, but Olympus Has Fallen was ultimately more successful, leading to the 2016 sequel London Has Fallen and a third film in the franchise, Angel Has Fallen, which was released in 2019.

Both Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum Went on to Star in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Foxx and Tatum have both made unexpected appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in more recent years. Foxx played the role of Max Dillon / Electro in Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Andrew Garfield in 2014, and he reprized the role in 2021 for the MCU’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Tatum, who was originally set to star as Remy LeBeau / Gambit in a canceled solo film as part of the X-Men universe for 20th Century Fox, was finally able to realize the role when he appeared in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine.

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The third film in the Deadpool franchise brought in many actors alongside Tatum who also portrayed Marvel characters in the past, putting them all into the mainline MCU continuity. It became one of the biggest box-office successes of the year, with Tatum’s Gambit being particularly well-received. Ryan Reynolds commented on Tatum’s depiction of the character, saying the studio was ‘obsessed’ with him. “I honestly don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in the bookkeeping sessions at Marvel, but I do know that they’re obsessed with him in that role,” Reynolds said. “Once you show that it works well, that’s really what they need. Sometimes they just need to see it in action.” There has yet to be any official confirmation if Tatum will continue to play Gambit going forward in future MCU movies.

White House Down is now streaming for free on Tubi.

Source: Tubi

White House Down

Release Date

June 27, 2013

Runtime

131 minutes

Director

Roland Emmerich

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