Melissa McCarthy's 'Heat' May Be Hot Enough To Take The 'White House' Down This Weekend

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Channing Tatum's "White House Down" may feel the heat of Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock's buddy film.

We're rolling into another big summer showdown at the box office this weekend.

Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx's over-the-top action thriller "White House Down" ("WHD") is going head-to-head with queen of comedy Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock's cop comedy "The Heat." 

Analysts have said it's going to be one of the closest box-office weekends with The Wrap predicting earlier this summer "The Heat" would narrowly edge out the "White House" film. 

So far "WHD" had the advantage Thursday evening, earning $1.35 million vs. $1 million in late-night and midnight showings for "The Heat."

However it should be noted Columbia Pictures began rolling out Roland Emmerich's presidential thriller at 7 p.m. as opposed to the funny girl comedy which didn't start showing in theaters until 10 p.m.