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The movie Sound of Freedom is one of the surprise hits of the summer, outgrossing blockbuster movies like Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Amazon Prime Video has acquired streaming rights for “Sound of Freedom,” this summer’s unlikely (and controversial) box office hit. The film will be available to Prime Video subscribers in the U.S. for no additional charge on Dec.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. You can soon hear the “Sound of Freedom” from home. The film, which made its theatrical debut in July, will get digital and physical releases throughout October and November.

Experts who actually work with trafficking victims have been vocally criticizing Sound of Freedom for weeks now.

Tim Ballard, the former Homeland Security agent turned anti-sex-trafficking crusader whose life provided inspiration to summer box office hit Sound of Freedom, is slamming a recent Vice expose that accuses him of sexual conduct with seven women during his time with his organization Operation Underground Railroad.

Tim Ballard, the real-life founder and onetime CEO of Operation Underground Railroad who is portrayed by Jim Caviezel in the indie hit , was the subject of sexual misconduct allegations and a related investigation involving seven women, according to a story published by Vice.

Tatiana Siegel In a summer of many misses, “Sound of Freedom” has become a major and unlikely box office hit, making a sequel seem a foregone conclusion. But who exactly holds the rights to tackle a new outing? Well, it’s complicated. A representative for producer Mike Ilitch Jr.

Angel Studios, the distributor behind Alejandro Monteverde’s summer surprise hit, Sound of Freedom, is exclaiming that they’ve paid back their 6,678 P&A investors 120% of their original investment in the Jim Caviezel movie.

Tatiana Siegel Despite its status as the highest-grossing indie film since 2019’s “Parasite,” “Sound of Freedom” has been dismissed as a QAnon fever dream by large swaths of the mainstream media. But that derisive label is “so ridiculous” to the film’s writer-director Alejandro Monteverde, who began working on the project in 2015, two years before QAnon emerged. “The origin [of the film] has been avoided, purposely or accidentally, in the media,” Monteverde said.

Well, it was bound to happen eventually. With enough pundits repeating the BS promo that this movie was “the truth the liberal media doesn’t want you to see” of course someone was going to believe it.

Sound of Freedom is one of the biggest hits at the summer box office and it hasn’t been without its fair share of controversy.

Well, this has come harrowingly full circle.

EXCLUSIVE: There was a lot of noise surrounding the right state-beloved, $163M-grossing summer surprise hit, Sound of Freedom, this morning with Newsweek reporting that one of the pic’s 6,678 crowdfunders was arrested for child kidnapping by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Sound of Freedom,” this summer’s unlikely box office hit, has crossed the $100 million mark in North America after three weeks of release. It’s an impressive milestone for the low-budget, faith-based movie, especially in the height of summer blockbuster season. It also marks the first indie release in post-pandemic times to surpass $100 million at the domestic box office. Last year’s Oscar-winning arthouse smash “Everything Everywhere All at Once” topped $100 million globally, but that included $63 million at the international box office. “Sound of Freedom” isn’t playing overseas. “Sound of Freedom” stands as the 16th-highest grossing North American release of the year. At this rate, the movie looks to keep climbing that list and soon supplant the No. 14 and 15 spots, which currently belong to “Scream VI” with $108 million and “The Flash” with $107 million.

the controversial film “Sound of Freedom” by either forgetting to dim the lights, or in at least one case, turning off the air conditioning in the theater. The word-of-mouth smash hit, which shocked Hollywood by beating the new “Indiana Jones” flick at the box office, tells the real-life story of anti-child-trafficking campaigner and former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard (played by Jim Caviezel) as he attempts to set up an organization known as Operation Underground Railroad.The accusations of experience tampering come on the heels of the film being criticized for promoting pro-QAnon conspiracy theories.

late last week, actors and anyone covered by its collective bargaining agreement with AMPTP have been prohibited from not just production work, but promotional appearances.Host Sean Hannity cleared the air about Caviezel’s appearance straightaway: “By the way, this is separate and apart from SAG and the strike that’s going on,” he said. “I want to make a point that you’re not in any way going against that, is that correct?”“Yes,” Caviezel responded.

Jim Caviezel stars in the new movie Sound of Freedom, which has been a surprise mega-hit at the box office this summer.

Donald Trump plans to host a screening of Sound of Freedom at his Bedminster golf club next week, seizing on the unexpected box office performance of the movie.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron and Angel Studios have joined forces to quell a boycott against the exhibition chain over the release of “Sound of Freedom.” Social media users have accused AMC of purposely disrupting “Sound of Freedom” screenings following accusations that the hit movie stokes QAnon conspiracy theories (Rolling Stone, for instance, slammed “Sound of Freedom” as a “QAnon-tinged thriller”). Claims include AMC canceling screenings and disrupting showtimes with technical difficulties and broken air conditioning. “Sadly, conspiracy theorists are so prevalent in America. So much garbage information is spread,” Aron wrote on Twitter. “More than ONE MILLION people have watched ‘Sound of Freedom’ at AMC Theatres. More than at any other theatre chain on the planet. Yet people falsely claim otherwise. It is so bizarre.”

CBS News’ straight coverage of the real-life raid in Colombia that rescued over 50 children and inspired the movie.The sting operation was led by Tim Ballard, a former Homeland Security special agent from California. Having worked undercover on child trafficking cases formore than a decade, he quit his law enforcement job in 2013 to hunt down pedophiles abroad and free the children they enslaved. The story not only raised awareness about the mushrooming issue of child sex-trafficking and exploitation, but it turned Ballard and his nonprofit, Operation Underground Railroad, into the object of media interest.He was profiled in Forbes with the headline “Meet a guy who has devoted his life to freeing slaves” and appeared on a series of networks.

Sony/Stage 6 Films/Blumhouse’s Insidious: The Red Door may have stolen No. 1 away from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinyat the weekend box office, but Angel Studios’ indie wonder Sound of Freedom won Monday with an estimated $4 million.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.A sequel to 2013’s “Insidious: Chapter 2,” the flick is actor Patrick Wilson’s directorial debut.It managed to push “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which opened last Friday and was in the No.

Angels Studios’ Jim Caviezel thriller, Sound of Freedom, came on strong on Tuesday givingDisney/Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny a run for his money, however, until actuals are reported, it remains to be seen who won July 4th, both distributors reporting $11.5M.

Jim Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus Christ in "The Passion of the Christ," has taken up a new cause. Caviezel stars in the film "Sound of Freedom," in theaters now, which follows the story of a former federal agent working to save children from human trafficking. The actor spoke to Fox News Digital about the shortcomings of modern day Christianity while promoting the film, which also stars Mira Sorvino and Bill Camp.

Brent Lang Executive Editor “Sound of Freedom,” a faith-based film about child sex trafficking, is shaping up to be an unlikely box office hit. Angel Studios, the streaming and distribution company behind the low-budget drama, claims that the film has generated more than $10 million in pre-sales ahead of its theatrical release on July 4. That’s an impressive number for a movie that isn’t relying on a glossy big studio marketing campaign. It’s also another sign of the buying power of religious moviegoers, who helped propel this spring’s “Jesus Revolution” to an improbable $53 million at the global box despite the fact that the biggest star in that movie was Kelsey Grammar.

UPDATED EXCLUSIVE: Angel Studios’ thriller Sound of Freedom starring Jim Caviezel has seen its presales spike to $10M. This is before the pic’s opening tomorrow, July 4, in north of 2,600 locations. Many rivals are tracking this semi-faith-based, based-on-a-true-story title about about former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard who took rescuing abducted children around the globe into his own hands; they’re spotting a 6-day $20M start which is extremely impressive for a non-major studio adult thriller. We’ll see how this plays out. Currently over a million tickets have been snapped up for Sound of Freedom.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Sound of Freedom” is being sold as a “conservative” thriller. It’s based on the true story of Tim Ballard, the former Homeland Security Special Agent who has devoted himself to fighting child sex trafficking, and who took his crusade private when he founded Operation Underground Railroad, with backing from Glenn Beck. The movie stars Jim Caviezel, who ever since he took on the title role of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” 19 years ago, has been a go-to actor for the kind of faith-based projects that the vast majority of Hollywood stars steer clear of. Wearing a trim dark beard and coppery blond hair, Caviezel plays Ballard as a beatific G.I. Joe meets George C. Scott in “Hardcore” meets an avenging Jesus.

EXCLUSIVE: We all know post-pandemic that tentpoles work at the box office, but it’s been hit and miss for everything else, especially indies movies. From out of nowhere, Angel Studios’ Sound of Freedom movie about Tim Ballard, a former Homeland Security agent who left the department after he was frustrated with the U.S. rescue efforts with trafficked children in third world countries, is racking up $7.2M in ticket presales before its July 4th opening at 2,626 theaters, sources tell Deadline.

Mel Gibson is not producing a four-part documentary centered on child sex trafficking, TheWrap has confirmed. False reports of the Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker’s involvement in the project’s development with Operation Underground Railroad began circulating this week, leading Gibson’s publicist and the nonprofit organization’s founder Tim Ballard to release statements debunking the claims.“Mel deserves all the credit for taking the initiative to further the critical work that we do,” Ballard said in a statement Thursday. “I am personally grateful for his support as we worked on this documentary, however reports this four-part series is actually being produced by Mr.

Naman Ramachandran Jim Caviezel (“The Passion Of The Christ,” “Frequency,” “Deja Vu”) stars in human trafficking drama “Sound of Freedom,” the first trailer for which has been unveiled by Angel Studios. The film is based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former U.S. government agent that quits his job to rescue children from global sex traffickers. Ballard (Caviezel), a federal agent, finds himself losing hope in the dark field of children crime work. However, Ballard quickly uncovers his life mission when he’s able to free a seven-year-old boy that was kidnapped. When the young boy asks Ballard to find his sister who was also kidnapped, Ballard decides to devote his life to rescuing children from sex slavery.

McKinley Franklin author Angel Studios has acquired worldwide distribution rights for “Sound of Freedom” ahead of the film’s 2023 theatrical release. “Sound of Freedom” is based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent that quits his job to rescue children from global sex traffickers. Ballard (Jim Caviezel), a federal agent, finds himself losing hope in the dark field of children crime work. However, Ballard quickly uncovers his life mission when he’s able to free a 7-year-old boy that was kidnapped. When the young boy asks Ballard to find his sister who was also kidnapped, Ballard decides to devote his life to rescuing children from sex slavery. Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino and Emmy-nominee Bill Camp co-star.

Also Read: Tucker Carlson Says He Just Learned That QAnon 'Is Not Even a Website' (Video)Caviezel was supposed to appear with a man named Tim Ballard, founder of the anti-trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad. Ballard has been a sort of hero figure for QAnon adherents, and Cavezel played him in an obscure movie.