How Angel Studios is Spreading the Gospel of “Faith-Friendly” Cinema

Like Any Good Proselytizer, Angel Studios Is Taking the Good News Global.

The Utah-Based Upstart, WHICH Combines A Focus on Underserved Faith-Basted Audiens with Crowdfunding and Digital Marketing Innovation to Deliver Indie Hits Sound of Freedom an King of Kings, IS RAPIDLY SCALING ITS INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS AHEAD OF A PLANNED IPO.

Angel Studios CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER JEFFREY HARMON WAS IN London This Week for a Gala Screen TestamentA new biblical-in-inspired british series WHICH Angel is Rolling Out Together with Its UK Partner Kova Releasing.

Directed by Paul Syrstad, Testament is a modern-day, London-Set Adaptation of the Acts of the Apostles, The Fifth Book of the New Testament, WHICH RECONTS OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF The Christian Church. I The Latest Angel Studios Release Under Its Recently-AnnounCed Deal with Kova, Following King of KingsAnimated Film on the Life of Jesus Christ Feating the Voices of Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman and Mark Hamill; an BonhoefferA Biopic on the German Lutheran Pastor and Anti-Nazi Dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Earlier this year, angel unveiled Similar Output Deals with Distributors Across European Zealand. The Company Now Distribution Deals in Place for a Large Chunk of the World, from Brazil (with Paris Films), to English-Speaking West Africa (FilMone) to Sri Lanka

The Bulk of Angel’s Business is Still in The Us, But Hits Like Sound of Freedom, WHICH GROSSED more than $ 66 Million of Its $ 250 Million Box Office Tally Internation King of KingsWHICH HAS SO Far Earned Upwards of $ 6 Million on International Release, Including $ 1.5 Million in Brazil Alone, Point to the Global Potential of the Studio’s Model. On June 16, Angel Studios Will Receive the Inaugural “Breakout Distributor of the Year” Award at Industry Conference Cineeurope, Honoring the Company Authenticity, Production Content That Resonates With Its Audience. ”

“IT’s A Worldwide Beat,“ Harmon Tells The Hollywood ReporterSpeaking of the Faith-Based Audience. “There’s Like An Allergic Reaction to Faith in Hollywood, and It Shouldn’s King of KingsWHICH HAS $ 67 Million at the Box Office So Far. Look at [Biblical TV series] House of Davidwhoh was the Number One Show on Amazon Prime. The Faith Market is a Big, Big Market, and that’s The Reason Who We’re a Faith-Friendly Studio. ”

Harmon, Together with His Brothers Neal, Daniel and Jordan Harmon, and Cousin Benon Crane, Launched Angel Studios Back in 2023 As a “Family-Friends” Alternate.

“We Were Just Trying to Build A System to Create The Kind of Product We Wanted For Our Families,“ Says Harmon, Who, Like His Brothers, Is A Mormon. “I have Six Kids, and I Want Them to Grow Up with The Kind of Films and TV Series That Hollywood Just Doesn’t Make Anymore. We Created The Studio to Bring.

Among The Company’s Indie Innovations is Its Angel Guild Program, in Whoich Members Pay A MONTHLY FEE FOR ACCESS TO THE STUDIO’S RELEASES AS WELLAS FUNDING, A REGULATED CrowdFunding Platform for Approved Projects. In many territories, Audiens Cannes ALSO DECANY’S PAY IT FORWARD BOOKING SYSTEM, WHERE PEOPLE CAN BUY AND THAT DONATE MOVIE TICKETS FOR OHERS TO Use.

The Angel Guild, whol Counted AROUND 250,000 Members in Late 2023, now Boasts More than 1.2 Million People from 155 Countries. “All of them voteing on all the projects that come into angel studios and funcing them as well,” Says Harmon.

Angel Studios’ Model Includes A Standard Back-End Deal for Filmmakers, in Contrast to the Buy-Out Model Common on Netflix and Other Streamers, WHICH INCLUDES A PERCENTAGEES OF REVENES Watch Time for a Film or Show per month as a percentage of the entity watch time for all the Content Available.

IT HASN’T BEEN ALL SMOOTH SAILING FOR Angel Studios. The Company Was Born of the Collapse of the Harmon Brothers’ Previous Endeavar, Vidangel, WHICH DISTRIBUTED Versions of Hollywood Studio Films, Edited to Make Them. In 2016, The Majors, Including Disney, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm, Field A Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Vidangel, Alleging Copyright Violation. The Studios Won $ 62.4 Million in Damages, Eventuly Reduched to A $ 9.9 Million Settlement After Vidangel Filed for Chapter 11 Bankring.

Rebranded As Angel Studios in 2021, The Company Shifned Focused to Produce and Distributing Original Content Through Equity CrowdFunding. Despite this pivot, Angel Studios has encounted Further Legal Disports, Nobly With The Producers of Biblical-Temed TV Series The Chosenwhosh resulted in an arbitration ruling that Angel Studios Breached ITS Contract and Was Ordered to Pay $ 5 Million in Fees and Costs. Early this year, slingshot Pictures filed a lawsuit against Angel Studios Over Alleged Contract Breaches Related to the Animated Film David.

Angel Studios Plans to Release Eight Films in Theaters This Year. Currently on Release, Alongside King of Kingsare The Last Rodeofrom Fried Green Tomatoes Director Jon AvNet and Starring Neal McDonough, WHICH HAS PAST $ 11 MILLION DOMESTICALLY; an Rule BreakersBill Gutntentag’s True-Life Tale of An All-Girls Robotics Team from Afghanistan, WHICH HAS EARned $ 3 Million in Theatric Release to Date.

UpComing Features Include Zero adThe Next Film from Sound of Freedom Director Alejandro Monteverde, A Reteling of the Biblical Story of Mary and Joseph, and the FIRST in Monteverde’s Overallall Deal with Angel that will See Seme Direct 5 totaral Film.

Zero ad Aside, Angel’s Slate Is Light on Overtish Religious Themes. There’s Not A Bible Lesson in Sight in Seth Worley’s SketchA Warm-Hearted Audience Favorite at Last Year’s Toronto Film Festival, WHICH BOWS IN AUGUST. Angel’s Christmas Day Release, The Stranger’s Casefrom LONE SURVIVOR Producer Brandt Andersen, Is The Story of A Pediatric Surgeon and Her Daughter, Set Against the Backdrop of the Syrian Civil War. Solo mioWHICH Angel Will Release Theatrically Next February, Is A ROM-COM Starring Kevin James as a Gron Who Gets Left at the Altar and Decides to go on Hisne. Young Washington, A Biopic on the Early Years of the First US President, Currently Shooting in the UK, Will Bow On July 4.

“A Little Less Half of Our Our Films and TV Series Have Faith Elements in Them,“ Says Harmon. “We’re Primarily a family-freely platform with a faith-freely side to it.”

Harmon Says Angel is Modify ITS International Distribution Strategy Accounting to Local Market Demands, Noting The “Big DifferentCes” in Audence Demography. Evangelical Audience.

“Europe is a more secular market Generally, for Example, Versus Brazil, WHICH IS, BY POPULATION, IS MUCH MORE FAITH-FOCUSED,” HE NOTES. “There, they Embrace the Faith Films More so than Even the Us Does.”

Angel Studio’s International Partners Include A Mix of Faith-Basted Distributors, Like Kova in The UK and France’s SAJE DISTRIBUTION, AND Secular Ones, Including Gerri-Kinostar

“In markets aster Makes Sense, WHERE The BEST Performers Are Faith-Based, That’s Great, But In Markets Wherts Better To Have A Different Type of Distributor, WE’S. “FOR US, IS PRIMARY About Performance.”

That same focus is Being Brough to Angel’s Small-Screen Slate, Which Ranges from The Post-Apocalyptic Drama Homestead – Recently renewed for a Second Season – to Fantasy Series The WayfindersFeaturing Pirates of the caribbean actor mackenzie crack, to the Irish Cartoon Tuttle Twinsto Fellowshipfrom test director Syrstad, About the Friendship, and Shared Faith, Between Fantasy Writers Jrrrrrrrr.The lord of the rings) and cs lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia).

“There Are Faith Titles in Our Slate, But The Wayfinders is not faith, Tuttle Twins is not faith, ”Harmon Notes.“ Anything Gets Too Pigeonholed Into One Special Faith Faith, Like Dogma, Is Not Going To Make It. There have to be a story with a strong, broad and general appeal. ”

While Not Abandoning Its Religious Roots, Harmon Says Angel Studios is “100 Percent Focused On Growth” as It Prepares to Go Public. Last Year, The Company AnnunCed Plans for An Ipo Via Southport Acquisition Corp, A Blank Check Spaac, in A Deal Valued at $ 1.6 Billion. There is still no date for the iPo.