00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:01:54.000The movie industry is changing for the better.
00:01:57.000Many of you saw Sound of Freedom, and that is just really starting a movement that we're honored to be part of here and that we really want to talk about.
00:02:32.000Yeah, Cabrini is a really unique film because there's many of your audience who probably supported Sound of Freedom last summer, which ended up taking the box office by surprise.
00:02:41.000The same director of that film created another film called Cabrini.
00:02:56.000And it tells the story of a real woman doing things in such a powerful way with her God-given talents.
00:03:04.000And so it's an incredible film that's going to stir audiences and help people realize that during this time and this era, the entertainment industry is being shaken up in a way that has never been seen before in the last 100 years.
00:03:18.000And we're honored to be a part of that.
00:03:21.000Cabrini is already at a like to realize how good it is.
00:03:26.000Not only are audiences loving it, but we've sent it out to a bunch of critics.
00:03:32.000And even, and this is super rare, I don't know if this ever happened.
00:03:35.000It doesn't matter, is that this has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes right now with critics.
00:03:50.000Tell us just a little bit of the teaser of the story and why you think it is so powerful in today's America to be told.
00:03:57.000I actually think there's three reasons that I would hit on.
00:03:59.000The first one is, this movie makes a statement to the world about the power of a woman who is doing things that a man cannot do.
00:04:09.000Women can do things that men can never do, and that is an important statement to be made.
00:04:13.000And then the other thing is, this tells the story of a woman who taught people the power of bringing their love for the country when they immigrate here, more than just coming in and rushing in.
00:04:26.000She said, you need to immigrate right.
00:04:28.000You need to immigrate in a way that is legal.
00:04:30.000And there was a comment on one of the YouTube channels of someone who clearly knows the history of Cabrini that said, this movie will do more for stopping illegal immigration than Joe Biden has done in the last four years.
00:04:42.000Because the reality is, is she taught that not only do you come to the country and you love the country, but you also learn about it and you learn about its history and you come and contribute.
00:04:52.000And she is such a powerful story in that way as well.
00:04:55.000And then the third reason is this is a statement to the world.
00:04:58.000When we support films like this, like we did with His Only Son and Sound of Freedom, and so many projects that we've been working on at Angel Studios, it is telling the theaters how important these films are because they want to show films like this that are uplifting, that amplify light.
00:05:16.000They're tired of all the stuff they're seeing from a lot of the major studios, but they need something that can monetarily replace that in a successful way.
00:05:24.000And you guys showed up for Sound of Freedom.
00:05:26.000And so if you actually go to angel.com/slash Charlie, you can get tickets.
00:05:32.000And this tells the theaters how important this is.
00:05:35.000And it gives us bigger auditoriums and it spreads it throughout the world.
00:05:38.000Yeah, I think today, right now, if you buy today, it's like 29% off your tickets.
00:05:43.000This is another thing that Angel Studios is doing that no other studio has ever done, which is allowing people to buy tickets early to support a movie and save money.
00:07:25.000So, Caprini is the first U.S. citizen ever to be canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
00:07:33.000Many Christians and even some Catholics don't even know this story.
00:07:36.000Tell us a little bit more about it, guys.
00:07:38.000Yeah, I think something that's important to understand about this story is that she was diagnosed that she would die because she had tuberculosis and she was diagnosed that she would die very early on in her life.
00:07:50.000And she took that energy and basically became one of the most renowned entrepreneurs of this entire century.
00:08:00.000She started hospitals, orphanages, 62 massive organizations around the globe that have impacted people as far as Mother Cabrini or Mother Teresa modeled her life after her.
00:09:31.000No one in our company can pick content unless it first passes the Angel Guild.
00:09:36.000And so when you join the Angel Guild, you become part of that group.
00:09:39.000Sound of Freedom had about a thousand people vote on it.
00:09:42.000And it was seen by approximately 60 million people worldwide because that guild voted Sound of Freedom in.
00:09:49.000Like if you were a part of the Angel Guild, you got to see Sound of Freedom early and you got to vote on it.
00:09:53.000You got to see Cabrini early and you got to vote on it.
00:09:55.000You got to see The Shift, His Only Son, After Death, all these different films.
00:10:00.000And then the second thing that happens when you're a member of the Angel Guild is you get two complimentary movie tickets to every single movie that comes out in theaters.
00:10:10.000And so you'll get two movie tickets to Cabrini.
00:10:13.000You get two movie tickets to a new one coming out on Memorial Day called Sight.
00:10:19.000And another two tickets on the 4th of July for a movie that's a follow-up to Sound of Freedom called Possum Trot.
00:10:27.000But the Angel Guild, they get to pick them, and they scored this one as high as anything we've seen.
00:10:33.000It scored at the same rank as Sound of Freedom.
00:10:36.000Yeah, and what's amazing about the Angel Guild is it's the first time that we're going into a world where we decided the Angel, we wanted our mission to tell stories that amplify light.
00:10:44.000And we wanted this to live way beyond us as founders and executives.
00:10:47.000And so we are trying to create a model that decentralizes and almost democratizes that authority so that it's not just a few Hollywood gatekeepers who are making these decisions anymore.
00:10:57.000It is hundreds of thousands of people who are joining the Angel Guild, who are going and making their voices heard in a very, very powerful way.
00:11:06.000It's time for us to take back what entertainment should look like because they're not serving the broad audience anymore.
00:11:13.000They're actually serving the small 10% that cares about what they're doing.
00:11:17.000And so we want to hand that power back over to the audience and say, hey, not only do you get a voice here, but then you get to be a part of the creation of it.
00:11:25.000You get to see everything early and you need to experience it behind the scenes.
00:11:27.000And if you've seen The Chosen, if you've seen Sound of Freedom, if you've seen His Only Son, Tuttle Twins, Tuttle Twins, The Wing Feather Saga, all these different beautiful projects are happening because the Angel Guild is rising up and saying, this is our studio.
00:11:45.000Angel Studios, the name, is after the original, when Broadway was created in New York, the original people who funded Broadway plays were called angel investors.
00:12:58.000So, getting lots of emails, Jeffrey and Jordan, from some of our Catholic viewers, and they say, Oh, yeah, we know all about Mother Caprini.
00:13:06.000We grew up and you know, learning about her.
00:13:09.000And it's interesting, some of the evangelicals said, Who?
00:13:15.000So, so you got to kind of walk, you know, those of us that are just, you know, confined to the Bible, nothing wrong with, you know, some of the post-biblical heroes.
00:13:23.000Just kind of walk through just some of the biography here because, you know, some of the spirit-filled Bible-believing group that I'm part of, I don't even know who this amazing woman was till you guys educated me.
00:13:36.000And I think that was one thing for me as well: you know, we're not Catholic, but we realized I felt embarrassed that I didn't know more about yes.
00:13:44.000Like, I rank her up with Thomas Jefferson now.
00:13:55.000And the American culture, the way that she transformed hospitals, the way she transformed the orphanage systems, she changed the entire face of the way America looked after her and inspired Mother Teresa.
00:14:10.000I don't think you need to be Catholic to appreciate, although it is.
00:14:14.000I mean, we intentionally picked March 8th because it's International Women's Day.
00:14:17.000It's during Lent and it rolls right into Easter.
00:14:21.000And so it's a great time to celebrate a lot, many layers of tradition.
00:14:26.000And beyond that, I think an important thing to understand, and I'm sure we're going to show more clips or trailers here, but I think an important thing to understand is this is first and foremost a cinematic masterpiece.
00:14:38.000Like Alejandro Monteverde, who directed Sound of Freedom, who took the world by storm, who's an incredible storyteller.
00:14:44.000There's a little bit of history here that I'd like to talk through.
00:14:47.000He had originally said, I don't want to direct a film about a Catholic saint.
00:14:51.000He's like, that's not on my list of things I want to do.
00:14:54.000And then he said, there's movies that I want to do, and then there's movies that I feel called to do.
00:14:57.000And he all of a sudden started feeling called to do this movie, but he said, if I'm going to do it, I want to shoot it in a way that it doesn't feel like she's contrasting with the world.
00:15:06.000So he decided he was going to shoot it in black and white.
00:15:08.000He wasn't actually going to shoot in color.
00:15:10.000He was going to shoot the entire thing in black and white.
00:15:12.000In order to do that, he had to build every set with so much more layers and texture and color so that in black and white, that could be visible.
00:15:22.000You need that contrast inside of a black and white film.
00:15:25.000And that's, you know, in color, you can usually hide a lot of those things.
00:15:28.000And the week before they go into shooting, the executive producer, a dear friend of ours, Eustace Wolfington, who actually financed a lot of this film, he came in and he said, guys, I feel this needs to be in color.
00:15:38.000And they're like, no, you can't just switch this out last minute.
00:15:42.000Like, we've built all the sets and everything around the black and white shot.
00:15:45.000He says, no, I feel strong that needs to be color.
00:15:48.000They didn't have time to change out anything but the cameras.
00:16:03.000Every frame, every moment in this film feels like you are being taken back into the 1880s of New York City and being immersed into this story in a way that only the greatest films in Hollywood have ever done.
00:16:19.000And so this is taking a type of story that's not only impactful, important, but it's absolutely one of the top films on my list of top films of all time.
00:16:28.000And so part of the context, guys, just so our audience understands, this was during the 1880s, 1890s, lots of people coming to the country legally, as you mentioned, and there was a great need for social services.
00:16:38.000And instead of going necessarily to the government, she did lobby local mayors and stuff, but she really was the advocate and the entrepreneur to build a, let's just say, non-governmental social safety net.
00:16:51.000Yeah, if I understand it right, she built hospitals.
00:16:55.000And I'm not like a historian on Cabrini, so take it with a grain of salt.
00:16:58.000But she built hospitals where the top had the best hospital in the world and they would charge world-class prices for the top.
00:17:07.000And then she would use those profits to pay for the poor to have world-class services right below them, down below, in the first floor of the hospital.
00:17:16.000And so she built these systems that allowed the poorest to have the best hospital help through private organizations.
00:17:24.000And what's amazing about this is she came in and she said, hey, one of the parts, one of my favorite parts of the film, not to spoil anything, but there's a moment where she's teaching and talking about the importance of how to immigrate.
00:17:38.000And she's talking about the importance of learning about the country's history that you're coming to, learning their language, learning to love the country.
00:17:45.000She wanted people who came here to love this country, love their founders, and love the history that's here.
00:17:52.000And it's one of the most important stories, especially right now with everything that's happening.
00:17:56.000It's amazing that this is coming out at such a critical moment in our history where everything seems to be going crazy in terms of immigration.
00:18:06.000Hey, this is Charlie Kirk, and I know a lot of you have been suffering under the Biden economy.
00:18:10.000Recently, school loan payments have been reinstated.
00:18:13.000And for many, it's adding thousands to their monthly expenses.
00:18:16.000My friends, Andrew Delray and Tad of Aiki, and they're amazing.
00:18:18.000They really helped me through a tough, tough situation recently.
00:19:29.000So either Jeffrey or Jordan, help me understand what's wrong with Hollywood in this regard.
00:19:34.000If I have to see the same Marvel or Fast and Furious 29 be made, I mean, all we see is remakes and sequels and the same IP just and the same actors.
00:20:45.000And so as long as there's a great craftsman like Alejandro Monteverde who did Cabrini, the best in the world will join because they want to work on great, beautiful art.
00:20:54.000But the issue that we see, that we've identified is the gatekeepers.
00:21:00.000There's a little tiny group of people, executives, Hollywood executives, who make all the decisions of what, how many, these $100 million budgets.
00:21:10.000They all live in these little bubbles in their own communities and they push nihilistic, really dark content on the world.
00:21:22.000And that's where the problem's at, is the gatekeepers.
00:21:25.000And so what we've done is we're ripping the gatekeeper system out and then letting the audience make the decisions, the angels.
00:21:33.000And the Angel Guild makes those decisions and replaces those gatekeepers and decides what gets made.
00:21:39.000And that's how you end up with movies like series like The Chosen.
00:21:42.000And that's how you end up with Sound of Freedom.
00:21:43.000And that's how you end up with Tuttle Twins.
00:21:45.000And that's how you end up with Cabrini.
00:21:47.000And these films exist because we're removing the gatekeepers and we're putting it in the hands of the viewers rather than the gatekeepers.
00:21:58.000And we're also finding that the gatekeepers, the audience is actually making better decisions.
00:22:03.000They are able to make a better decision.
00:22:05.000There's a book called The Wisdom of Crowds, and it talks about the power of being able to have an aggregate of people in a certain sandbox be able to make decisions.
00:22:14.000And we've learned this throughout history.
00:22:15.000I mean, it's the beautiful part of the invisible hand and capitalism.
00:22:18.000And like people can make really good decisions when you give them the freedom to do so.
00:22:24.000And so people can become part of the guild, is that right?
00:22:50.000Or is it more of just kind of the backroom type stuff?
00:22:53.000Is there an equivalent you could offer?
00:22:55.000Last year was our first year being a studio that goes to theaters.
00:23:00.000Angel Studios, this was our first time being a distributor going to theaters, which means we were going up head to head with MGM, Lionsgate, Disney.
00:23:08.000And we took the eighth spot domestically in the total box office.
00:23:13.000Yeah, head of MGM and quite a few other big ones.
00:23:37.000Like every single year at Cinemacon, thousands of theater owners gather in Las Vegas, and then the big studios come in and they try to pitch them on taking their movies.
00:23:47.000So your local theater is owned by your neighbor or other people.
00:23:52.000And there's three big chains, Cinemark, Regal, and AMC.
00:23:56.000And even those are owned by Christian families.
00:24:00.000And these are, they don't really align with the Hollywood world.
00:24:05.000And so as long as we can compete, as long as you show up to order tickets.
00:24:10.000So, for example, with Sound of Freedom, it was our second theatrical release.
00:24:15.000And we decided to go straight for the heart of the cinematic world, which is July 4th last year.
00:24:22.000Between Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible.
00:24:24.000Yeah, right between Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible, two of the biggest movies released of all time.
00:24:28.000And we went right in the center on July 4th, which is the hardest day of the year to compete.
00:24:35.000And what happened is we said, if we can get just 1,200 theaters to say yes, then we'll sell those theaters out.
00:24:41.000And a huge part of the reason why we sold it out is shows like yours or Bannon on this on this on this network.
00:24:51.000He came in super strong and said, everybody needs to buy tickets now to prove to the theaters that we can get more locations and more showtimes.
00:25:02.000Like your network came in and bought seats and seats and seats and seats.
00:25:07.000And then the theater saw it and they said, look, it's performing.
00:25:11.000Sound of Freedom is outselling Indiana Jones and it's outselling Mission Impossible.
00:25:17.000We're going to add some more locations.
00:25:18.000And then we sold those out and then we added more locations.
00:25:21.000And by the time we launched, it was a full huge wide release that ended up beating Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible in the theaters.
00:25:30.000And so that is the mission of what we do now is we say, okay, let's pick a movie that everybody believes in, the movies that we wish existed in theaters.
00:25:43.000And then everybody says, okay, we're going to go out and we're going to buy these early to prove to the theaters that there's demand for it and get more screens.
00:26:01.000We call it flexible booking, where anytime up until the hour before your showtime, you can move your seat to a different showtime.
00:26:10.000So if your plans change before March 8th, you can just move your seats to a different day, a different theater, different showtime, and it has no charges.
00:26:17.000That way we can get in early sales and we can get more theaters, more showtimes, more bookings, and show the world that there's a demand for this light amplifying content like Cabrini, like Sound of Freedom, like The Shift, like His Only Son.
00:26:35.000These movies that are coming up that have been voted on by the crowd and that will not disappoint.
00:26:51.000And it was like three of the five showtimes I looked at across Florida where we're at right now, actually in your offices, but they were completely sold out.
00:27:01.000And so the momentum is picking up, but we need to put more pressure on them.
00:27:06.000That's why we're saying buy release, save big.
00:27:08.000We're so grateful for partners like you, Charlie.
00:27:10.000You go to angel.com slash Charlie and you'll find that we have locations all over the nation, but we need to grow even bigger.
00:27:21.000So don't worry if it's not near you because if you really, really, you can actually, we even added a feature where if you see a location that doesn't have showtimes, you can call them right on our website and say, hey, you click on it here.
00:27:34.000And that is really, really important to helping us get these stories that amplify light out into the world.
00:27:40.000And these are the mechanisms, stories and content.
00:27:42.000The reason so many people have invested in Hollywood for so long is because content and stories are the catalyst for what dictates where our culture goes.
00:28:06.000But if you want to show your kids that they can accomplish anything, that this little tiny nun from Italy who was given a couple years to live turns around, takes on the Pope, takes on the Cardinals, takes on the mayor of New York, takes on pimps, and she changes American history completely.
00:28:27.000The current, not the current system, but if you go back a little time before safety nets, the system that was keeping, like when you look at Catholic hospitals all over the country, they still have names on them.
00:30:08.000Rest assured knowing that you have emergency antibiotics, antivirals, and anti-parasitics on hand to help keep you and your family safe from whatever the globalists throw at us next.
00:30:54.000But did you think this was going to be the grand slam it was or were even you guys blown away?
00:30:59.000We definitely saw the signs because we're a very data-driven company.
00:31:03.000And so we were watching in a way that Hollywood doesn't.
00:31:06.000Matter of fact, we were tracking our pre-sales very closely to make sure we understood exactly that we were spending dollars efficiently and actually getting to people who wanted to see the film.
00:31:16.000And so we always found it funny because Hollywood will send out these weekly emails to different people in the industry and different studios like ours saying what they project.
00:31:25.000And we'd laugh because we're like, man, they are projecting to like $6 million for opening weekend and then $8 million and then their highest like $10 million or something.
00:31:33.000Yeah, they had gotten up to like $10 million for opening.
00:31:35.000And we did, you know, $14.5 million opening day.
00:31:37.000And so we knew we were pacing way ahead of who we were doing.
00:31:40.000We were doing projections and I was doing an interview.
00:31:43.000And they were like, how do you think it will hold up to the projections?
00:31:46.000And I said, well, we've already pre-sold more tickets than their projections.
00:31:52.000But the beauty of it is, it's networks like yours, Charlie, that can show the world that when we stand together and like one of the most, I know it sounds crazy to say this, but Sound of Freedom was one of the number one searched films of all of 2023.
00:32:09.000That means that there was more dialogue around Sound of Freedom and children that are being trafficked in this horrible industry than almost anything in the entire calendar year.
00:32:18.000And that's the power you have to drive a narrative and to drive a dialogue and a discussion.
00:32:25.000It is a film that is of the 1800s, but is for today.
00:32:29.000It is talking about the things that are so important today.
00:32:32.000And buying a ticket to Cabrini today, I know it sounds cheesy, it could be one of the most impactful things you can do as a viewer to send a signal to the world, to Hollywood and to the theaters.
00:32:44.000This story needs to be told and it needs to be seen by millions around the world.
00:32:48.000I know it changed my 10-year-old daughter's perspective.
00:32:53.000She's been texting me just while I've been out and saying, can I book a Girls' Night theater spaces for me and this many friends to take my friends to this movie because of how much it impacted her?
00:33:09.000And like, if you want your kids to come back better people, to realize you can just dig in and work and change the world and you can rely on God to do it.
00:33:20.000You don't have to rely on the state and you don't have to, like, you have the power to make difference in your life and in the world around you.
00:33:27.000If you focus and rely on God, this movie does that for your kids.
00:33:31.000And it's done to the quality of the Godfather in anything Hollywood's doing.
00:33:57.000It's not as big of a date as the 4th of July.
00:33:59.000But that being said, it has some very similar signals.
00:34:02.000And there's some themes in this film that are going to really rock the world.
00:34:06.000I mean, Cabrini was about as controversial back then as maybe the conservative movement is today in terms of there was people just like the woke mob is trying to destroy different people.
00:34:17.000You have people in this film who are trying to shut her down and keep her from doing what she was doing.