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Angel Studios
Every story on this desk about Angel Studios: Guild votes, theatrical Fridays, and the titles the list is carrying. Newest first. 16 pieces.
NewsBadman opens tenth at $2.1 million
Angel and the Badman finished tenth for the weekend of October 9–11, with $2,115,116 from 2,263 theaters, about $935 a screen. Friday was the biggest day, $935,341, then Saturday fell 28 percent to $671,466 and Sunday fell another 24 percent to $508,309. Deadline had previewed the booking at about 2,000 theaters. The actual count landed a bit wider, and the gross landed in the low twos. Angel’s last wide release, Runner, is in its fifth weekend at $14.4 million and 78 theaters. No international gross has posted. New Zealand is dated October 22.
NewsAngel drops Drummer Boy's full trailer
Angel posted the official trailer for Drummer Boy on Monday, the for KING + COUNTRY Revolutionary War musical that opens in theaters November 6. Ben and Joel David Smallbone direct. Joel plays Jeremiah Clem. Lucas Leach plays his brother Benjamin, the drummer on the other side. The July teaser already sketched the split. Last month Angel released India Brown’s song Wildflower. Monday’s two-and-a-half-minute trailer is the first full sell: a carol, a British line in the woods, and a November Friday that still has to share the corridor with Fathom’s Jimmy.
NewsYoung Washington lands on Wonder Project
Wonder Project said Thursday that Young Washington is now streaming on its subscription channel on Prime Video, anchoring a new “Stories Worth Knowing” collection of American history titles. Jon Erwin’s French and Indian War picture already hit theaters July 3, digital in August, and Blu-ray in September. Guild members can watch it on Angel. The Wonder Project add-on is $8.99 a month after a seven-day trial. Erwin is still writing the 1776 sequel. The first film now has another living room to fill while that script is unfinished.
NewsLevi walks Badman onto a Santa Fe carpet
Zachary Levi walked the red carpet Thursday at Sky Cinemas in Santa Fe’s Railyard for the world premiere of Angel and the Badman, Angel’s Quirt Evans remake that opens nationwide October 9. The picture shot in Santa Fe County at Bonanza Creek Ranch. Tommy Lee Jones plays the marshal. Meg Fraser is Penny, the rancher’s daughter Levi described on the carpet as the woman who can thaw a hard man. Guild tickets for the night were sold through Angel’s shop. Seven days left until the Friday the listed rooms have to hold.
NewsAngel sells Drummer Boy premiere tickets for Nov. 4
Angel is selling Red Carpet Premiere tickets for Drummer Boy on November 4 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, two days before the for KING + COUNTRY Revolutionary War musical opens nationwide. Check-in starts at 4:30 p.m. CT. The VIP screening is at 7. Shop variants list General, Guild, and Diamond seats at $100 and a Group option at $250. Premium Guild members can trade two complimentary movie tickets for one premiere ticket if they buy one. The ages-16-and-up night is the Guild’s last dress rehearsal before a Friday that already shares a corridor with Jimmy.
NewsAngel's Badman seats
Nine days before Angel opens Angel and the Badman, Fandango, AMC, Regal, and Cinemark list showtimes for the October 9 Friday. Zachary Levi plays Quirt Evans. Tommy Lee Jones is the marshal. Julio Quintana directs the remake of the 1947 John Wayne western. Guild score on Angel’s page is 79. After Runner cooled on a wide map, the studio’s next theatrical Friday is a western you can already buy a seat for.
NewsThe Problem With Fablehaven's spring cameras
At FanX in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Fablehaven director Cameron Sawyer told the room casting is in the final stages for Kendra, Seth, Grandma, Grandpa, and Muriel, and that he hopes cameras roll this spring. Author Brandon Mull, on the same panel, called himself cautiously optimistic after twenty years of false starts. Angel still has the Brandon Mull preserve story for 2027. Nobody on stage named a lead. The late-summer 2026 start in Angel’s own note already passed.
NewsWhy is Young Washington already on Blu-ray?
Angel’s Young Washington hit Blu-ray and DVD on September 22, about eleven weeks after the July 3 theatrical open that The Numbers still has at $47.1 million. The Angel shop sold the combo for $22.99, with a Historian Round Table exclusive to the Blu-ray, then marked the listing sold out. Digital landed August 11. Guild members already stream it. Jon Erwin’s French and Indian War picture is now a living-room object while he writes the 1776 sequel.
NewsAngel drops Wildflower before Drummer Boy opens
Angel posted Friday the first song clip from Drummer Boy, Wildflower, sung by India Brown as Emmaline. It is the first music out of the film before the November 6 theatrical date, a for KING + COUNTRY Revolutionary War musical directed by Ben and Joel David Smallbone. The video is on Angel’s YouTube. The track is on the usual streaming shops. Six weeks out from a Friday that already shares a corridor with Jimmy, Angel is selling the picture one song at a time.
NewsRunner cools on Angel’s wide map
Angel Studios’ Runner fell 53 percent in its second weekend, taking $3.01 million from 2,472 theaters after a $6.46 million open, according to The Numbers. Through Tuesday the domestic cume was $12.6 million. Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson headline Scott Waugh’s organ-run thriller. The Guild scored it an 80. CinemaScore was A-. Young Washington did $47 million this summer. Drummer Boy and Zero A.D. are next on Angel’s calendar. The hold is the story.
NewsFablehaven movie production nears cast decisions
Director Cameron Sawyer has been talking on the official Fablehaven Film YouTube channel. Weekly Update 5, posted May 12, said the team had gone through 5,435 open auditions and was sending 253 people to callbacks. The screenplay is locked at 111 pages. BackerKit closed at $1,113,517. Angel still has Brandon Mull’s preserve story for 2027. Late summer was the shoot target in the studio’s own note. Kendra and Seth have not been named. Fall is here, and the diary has gone quiet.
NewsAngel's three million
Angel Studios said Monday that the Guild has passed three million paying members, twice the 1.5 million it counted on August 23, 2025. Recurring membership revenue doubled over the same stretch, the company said. Members pay a fee, screen films and series before release, and vote on which projects Angel distributes in theaters and on its app. CEO Neal Harmon called the mark an early milestone and said members now direct more than half a billion dollars a year toward stories they want made. Angel did not say how that figure is built. Drummer Boy is still November 6. Zero A.D. is December 11.
NewsAngel dates Zero A.D. for December 11
USA Today dropped an exclusive trailer on September 8 for Angel’s Nativity picture, now titled Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ and dated December 11 in U.S. theaters. Alejandro Monteverde directs. Deva Cassel plays Mary. Jim Caviezel, whose Passion of the Christ is back in 4K this week, plays Herod. Sam Worthington is Antipater. Ben Mendelsohn is Nahash of Ammon. Angel parked the film a year so DAVID could take last Christmas, which means a dated circuit replaced the liturgical window the board had been carrying.
NewsFathom puts Jimmy Stewart tickets on sale against Drummer Boy
Fathom Entertainment put tickets on sale last week for Jimmy, the KJ Apa biopic of Jimmy Stewart, dated November 6, the same Friday Angel opens Drummer Boy, its first live-action theatrical musical. Burns & Co. is selling a faith-and-service story about an Oscar winner who left the lot for the Army Air Corps, then came home to play George Bailey. Stewart’s daughter is a producer, Vet Tix is in the campaign, and Veterans Day sits five days later, which puts two faith-adjacent titles in rooms that usually do not have to choose between Angel and Fathom.
Industry
Angel Studios keeps betting on the crowd that already showed up
Angel Studios did not invent the faith audience, but it did build a machine that talks to that audience without a studio parent in the room. The slate still runs through the same funnel: a trailer, a pay-it-forward pitch, a theatrical week that looks small on a circuit map and large in the rooms that book it. The bet has not changed. The catalog has gotten heavier.
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The King of Kings found the family audience Angel wanted
Animated Bible projects usually spike around Easter and vanish by the time school lets out. The King of Kings did the spike, then did something ruder: it kept selling tickets to grandparents who needed a Saturday title that would not embarrass them in the minivan, a smaller story than a record weekend and a more useful one.