EXCLUSIVE: Angel Studios is adding 5 films to its 2026 slate pinch thriller Runner by Scott Waugh starring Owen Wilson and Alan Ritchson group for Sept. 11. It unveiled a reimagining of John Wayne’s 1947 Angel And The Badman starring Tommy Lee Jones; a Cold War-era Reagan-Gorbachev movie pinch Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris; a biopic of cocoa baron Milton Hershey starring Finn Wittrock; and a vacation philharmonic Drummer Boy.
The producer-distributor of aspirational and faith-based fare is now astatine 10 films for nan twelvemonth coming beardown disconnected animated theatrical hits David, The King of Kings and Kevin James-starring romanticist drama Solo Mio. Brandon Purdie, EVP and caput of theatrical, is talking up nan slate astatine Angel’s CinemaCon position Monday.
Previously announced films see animated Animal Farm directed by Andy Serkis pinch a starry sound cast, retired May 1.
Young Washington, directed by Jon Erwin and starring Kelsey Grammer and Mary-Louise Parker, Ben Kingsley and William Franklyn-Miller arsenic a young George Washington. From The Wonder Project. It marches retired July 3 for nan nation’s 250th anniversary.
And Zero A.D., retired connected Christmas, is Alejandro Monteverde’s epic biblical communicative of Mary’s sacrifices to prevention Jesus, starring Deva Cassel, Sam Worthington, Jim Caviezel and Ben Mendelsohn.
Since 2023 breakout deed Sound Of Freedom, Angel has go a champion of nan specialty movie container office. It operates pinch a unsocial audience-based model, moving projects by its ample and increasing 2.2 cardinal Angel Guild rank group.
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