EXCLUSIVE: Angels Studios’ upcoming animated household faith-based characteristic, The King of Kings, opening Friday is already counting north of $7.8M in pre-sales, we hear.
That determine eclipses the presale quantity on the identical cut-off date of Angel’s shock hit Sound of Freedom, which posted a 3-day of $19.6M and a 6-day of $41.6M, that motion drama about Tim Ballard, former authorities agent turned vigilante, occurring to make $184M home, and $250M WW.
As a part of the promo for The King of Kings, Angel has introduced a particular “Children Go Free” marketing campaign, which permits households to obtain as much as one free youngsters’s ticket with the acquisition of a qualifying grownup ticket after they go to Angel.com/kidsgofree and utilizing the code KIDSGOFREE.
The “Children Go Free” marketing campaign is powered by Angel Studios’ pay-it-forward group. Followers of the studio’s earlier releases—together with Sound of Freedom, Homestead, and Cabrini—have contributed to make sure that youngsters can go free of charge to the films.
“The King of Kings is discovering unbelievable help from each audiences and theaters, who’re passionately in search of content material that isn’t solely richly entertaining but in addition deeply faith-affirming,” mentioned Brandon Purdie, World Head of Theatrical Distribution & Model Improvement at Angel Studios. “We’re seeing the identical groundswell of vitality and anticipation that surrounded the lead-up to Sound of Freedom—a rising wave of grassroots momentum. Will The King of Kings ignite that very same stage of cultural depth? Few movies ever do. However this movie is charting its personal course, leaving its mark on animated storytelling and capturing the hearts of audiences.”
King of Kings was directed by Seong-Ho Jang and options Kenneth Branagh as Charles Dickens, Uma Thurman as Catherine Dickens, Pierce Brosnan as Pontius Pilate, Mark Hamill as King Herod, Forest Whitaker as Peter, Ben Kingsley as Excessive Priest Caiaphas, and Oscar Isaac as Jesus Christ. The film was impressed by Dickens: the movie follows a father and son as they embark on an imaginative journey via the lifetime of Jesus, delivering a recent and heartfelt tackle the best story ever instructed.
Among the many prime opening for Biblical primarily based animated pics are The Prince of Egypt which opened at $14.5M, adopted by The Star and Jonah, which debuted respectively to $9.8M and $6.2M.
