Studio behind hit ‘Sound of Freedom’ desires to offer audiences greenlight energy
LAS VEGAS — Angel Studios desires to offer audiences the facility to resolve what motion pictures are made.
The corporate behind final summer time’s shock field workplace hit, the kid trafficking film “ Sound of Freedom,” employs a crowdfunding mannequin to finance tasks from the bottom up.
“The gatekeeper mannequin is damaged, it isn’t working for audiences, the artistic neighborhood or the theater homeowners both,” Angel’s distribution head Jared Geesey advised an viewers of theater homeowners and exhibitors Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Its greatest hit to this point, “Sound of Freedom,” earned over $250 million globally and was one of many prime 10 movies of the yr domestically. Angel Studios raised the funds to make it in only a week. When it was in theaters, they launched a singular “pay-it-forward” mannequin wherein ticket patrons might select to purchase tickets for strangers. Firm leaders say it resulted in almost 2 million extra individuals seeing “Sound of Freedom.”
In 2023, their first yr releasing motion pictures, Angel Studios remodeled $300 million worldwide. In accordance with its leaders, over 100,000 individuals from 155 nations have invested almost $80 million in tasks launched to this point, together with final month’s “Cabrini.”
And Angel is hoping the momentum continues with a number of new releases coming this yr, which they previewed for exhibitors at CinemaCon. On Memorial Day, they’ll debut the drama “Sight,” starring Greg Kinnear and Terry Chin. It’s primarily based on the true story of eye surgeon Dr. Ming Wang, who endeavored to revive a blind youngster’s imaginative and prescient. And on the Fourth of July, they’ll have “Possum Trot,” govt produced by and starring “Black Panther’s” Letitia Wright. “Possum Trot” can be impressed by a real story about 22 households in a small city in East Texas who undertake 77 foster children.
Additionally on the slate are “Bonhoeffer,” concerning the anti-Nazi pastor who helped discovered Confessing Church and later died in a focus camp, and “Homestead,” a post-apocalyptic survival drama starring Neal McDonough, due at Christmas.
Lastly, there’s the animated film “David,” a biblical story, set for Thanksgiving 2025. An Angel Studios advertising govt mentioned he expects it to be, “probably the most profitable animated film of all time.”
