Sound of Freedom Hits $100M Box Office, On Track for Another $20M Weekend
The Sound of Freedom is a bonafide hit for ‘The Chosen’ studio Angel Studios, hitting $100M at the box office domestically and making it the most successful independent film of 2023.
Originally filmed in 2018 for $14.5M, it sat unreleased for years until Angel Studios picked it up and distributed it, using a blend of faith-based marketing and encouraging fans to ‘pay it forward’ by buying multiple tickets to give away to others to watch. The film has a 74% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 100% audience score based on over 10,000 verified reviews.
Unlike many big box-office movies that bombed this year, including The Flash, whose budget and marketing exceeded $300M yet only brought in $107M domestically, Sound of Freedom is expected to quickly blow past them this weekend, with many experts saying the film will finish at $150 domestically or more, and it still hasn’t hit international markets yet.
Starring Jim Caviezel, the film is “based upon the true story of former government agent Tim Ballard who quit his job to rescue a little girl from sex traffickers in the Colombian jungle. In the process, Tim saved 123 people, 55 of whom were children, from one mission alone.”
Notably, Ballard is not a Christian but a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.