Angel Studios
American media company
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| March 7 2025 | Release of 'Rule Breakers' film, directed by Bill Guttentag, featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ali Fazal, Fahim Fazli, and Nikohl Boosheri, produced by Black Autumn Show with a budget of $8 million. |
| 2025 | Planned release of 'David', an animated film about the biblical hero David. |
| February 10 2025 | Angel Studios expanded its international distribution partnerships, signing deals with studios in France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, multiple Latin American countries, Philippines, multiple African countries, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. |
| February 7 2025 | Angel Studios signed a distribution deal with Kova Releasing from the U.K., expanding its international partnership network to include distributors in Spain, Croatia, ex-Yugoslavia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Benelux, Portugal, Brazil, and Colombia. |
| May 2024 | An arbitrator issued a ruling in favor of The Chosen LLC following months of legal arbitration with Angel Studios. |
| May 2024 | One day after the arbitration ruling, Angel Studios' CEO Neal Harmon announced the company's intention to appeal the decision. |
| 2023 | Angel Studios launched the Angel Guild, a group of approximately 400,000 members who review and vote on completed episodes and movies to help determine project distribution. |
| 2023 | Produced 'Sound of Freedom', a film directed by Alejandro Monteverde, which became a significant box office success, grossing $250.6 million on a $14.5 million budget. |
| December 2023 | Angel Studios released 'The Shift', their first original theatrical feature film, a sci-fi movie starring Neal McDonough, Sean Astin, Kristoffer Polaha, and Emily Rose. |
| July 3 2023 | Angel Studios released 'Sound of Freedom' as its first international theatrical release, directed by Alejandro Monteverde and starring Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, and Bill Camp. The film became a significant box office success, earning over $250 million worldwide. |
| March 2023 | Angel Studios distributed 'His Only Son', a live-action biblical drama about Abraham and Isaac, produced by RockBridge Productions. |
| February 2023 | The Chosen completed its Season 3 finale, after which the series and creator Dallas Jenkins broke away from Angel Studios. |
| 2022 | Angel Studios raised $47 million in an investment round led by Gigafund, a venture capital company. |
| May 2022 | Angel Studios reported $123 million in revenue and revealed that 50,000 people had invested over $100 million for production of new original content. |
| 2021 | The company rebranded from VidAngel to Angel Studios, selling the original filtering service and pivoting to focus on producing original content through equity crowdfunding. |
| April 2021 | The Chosen was made available on Angel Studios for the launch of Season 2, becoming a viral hit with worldwide success. |
| March 2021 | Angel Studios launched Angel Funding, an investment portal offering investment opportunities through Regulation Crowdfunding securities offerings. |
| January 2021 | Angel Studios purchased the domain angel.com for $2 million, marking a significant strategic investment in their branding. |
| 2020 | VidAngel reached a settlement with the Hollywood studios after years of legal battle, defending their position under the Family Movie Act of 2005. |
| 2017 | The company launched a Regulation A+ securities offering to crowdfund Season 1 of The Chosen, a television series about Jesus and his disciples, raising $13 million - the largest amount ever crowdfunded for a TV show, with Neal Harmon, Jeff Harmon, Dallas Jenkins, and Derral Eves collaborating on the project. |
| 2017 | Launched Dry Bar Comedy, a series of 52 original stand-up comedy sets filmed in Utah, which went viral and accumulated over two billion views. |
| 2017 | Angel Studios launched Dry Bar Comedy, an original content series featuring clean stand-up comedy sets filmed in Utah, focusing on performances by lesser-known comedians. |
| 2016 | Major Hollywood studios sued VidAngel for copyright violations, accusing the company of streaming unlicensed content without proper authorization. |
| December 2016 | VidAngel conducted a Regulation A+ securities offering to raise money for operations and lawsuit costs, successfully raising over $10 million within five days after meeting its $5 million goal in just 28 hours. |
| 2014 | Neal Harmon, Jeffrey Harmon, Daniel Harmon, Jordan Harmon, and Benton Crane founded VidAngel with the goal of creating a movie filtering service that allows viewers to customize content filtering for children. |
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