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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. 5 pieces.
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.
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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.