Box Office: Movie Opens No. 1 in Texas, Arizona and Florida Theaters
The feature is from Angel Studios, a Utah-based production that’s backed faith-based films in the past.
Sound of Freedom opened across the U.S. on July Fourth, and it gave Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny a run for its money.
The movie, which did especially well in the middle of the country and in the South, grossed $11.6 million on its opening day to narrowly lose the daily July Fourth crown to Dial of Destiny ($11.7 million).
Angel says the opening-day number was actually $14.2 million when including $2.6 million in third-party ticket sales generated on Angel’s website.
In its first weekend, Sound of Freedom placed third with an impressive $19.7 million for a six-day total of $41.7 million, according to final Comscore numbers for the July 7-9 frame.
The film even came No. 1 in some multiplexes for the weekend ahead of Insidious: Red Door and Dial of Destiny, including at the AMC Northpark 15 in Dallas/Fort Worth and Harkins’ Superstition Springs 25 in the Phoenix area, according to those with access to Comscore data. Overall, the two cinemas ranked No. 3 and No. 6 on the list of the film’s 20 highest-grossing theaters on opening weekend. It also came in No. 1 at a Miami/Ft. Lauderdale cinema complex, a theater in Houston, a Miami multiplex and a theater in Salt Lake City.
AMC Burbank 30 and AMC Orange 30 in northern Orange County topped the list of Sound of Freedom’s highest-grossing theaters, followed by AMC Northpark; AMC Dine in Thoroughbred in Nashville, Tenn.; AMC Gulf-Pointe30 in Houston; Superstition Springs; AMC Garden State Plaza in New Jersey; Regal Edwards South Gate in Southgate, Calif.; Cinemark West Plano in Dallas; and Cinemark 16 in Harlingen, Texas.
The movie nabbed a coveted A+ CinemaScore, which generally guarantees strong word of mouth. The pic skewed female (58 percent) and older, with 57 percent of ticket buyers aged 45 or older, including 57 percent who are 55 and older.
Alejandro Monteverde directed Sound of Freedom, which was financed in part by crowd-sourcing.
“This movie has now taken on a life of its own to become something more than that, a grassroots movement,” Angel Studios CEO Neal Harmon said in a statement. “The world needs to see Sound of Freedom and we know that our biggest competitive advantage — our incredible fans and investors — are going to make sure that happens.”
Sound of Freedom has been discussed on QAnon message boards, but Angel insists it is not a QAnon movie.
Yet in late 2021, Caviezel spoke at a QAnon convention in Las Vegas, where he invoked the QAnon slogan, “The storm is upon us.”
Sound of Freedom continues its box-office run this week and weekend, going up against Tom Cruise starrer Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One, which opens Wednesday.
