The Charlie Kirk Show - Reclaiming Hollywood, One Film at a Time

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00:01:54.000 The movie industry is changing for the better.

00:01:57.000 Many 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.

00:02:05.000 We're going to keep on talking about.

00:02:06.000 Joining us now is Jeffrey and Jordan Harmon, co-founders of Angel Studios.

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00:02:15.000 We'll be talking about that throughout the hour.

00:02:18.000 Jeffrey and Jordan, welcome to the program.

00:02:20.000 Thanks for having us, Charlie.

00:02:21.000 It's good to see you.

00:02:22.000 So either one of you can take this.

00:02:23.000 Tell us first, let's talk about this new film you have coming out.

00:02:27.000 It's really exciting.

00:02:28.000 We could play the trailer in a second, but first, tease it called Cabrini.

00:02:32.000 Tell us about it.

00:02:32.000 Yeah, 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.

00:02:41.000 The same director of that film created another film called Cabrini.

00:02:45.000 And Glenn Beck watched it.

00:02:47.000 He said it was like watching, he said, this must have been what it felt like to be some of the early screeners of The Godfather.

00:02:53.000 It's a cinematic masterpiece.

00:02:55.000 It's absolutely gorgeous.

00:02:56.000 And it tells the story of a real woman doing things in such a powerful way with her God-given talents.

00:03:04.000 And 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.

00:03:18.000 And we're honored to be a part of that.

00:03:21.000 Cabrini is already at a like to realize how good it is.

00:03:26.000 Not only are audiences loving it, but we've sent it out to a bunch of critics.

00:03:32.000 And even, and this is super rare, I don't know if this ever happened.

00:03:35.000 It doesn't matter, is that this has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes right now with critics.

00:03:41.000 Wow.

00:03:42.000 So either one of you, just tell us a little bit of the backstory.

00:03:45.000 It's set in the late 1880s.

00:03:48.000 It's about an Italian immigrant.

00:03:50.000 Tell 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.

00:03:57.000 I actually think there's three reasons that I would hit on.

00:03:59.000 The 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.

00:04:09.000 Women can do things that men can never do, and that is an important statement to be made.

00:04:13.000 And 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.

00:04:26.000 She said, you need to immigrate right. 0.99

00:04:28.000 You need to immigrate in a way that is legal. 1.00

00:04:30.000 And 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.

00:04:42.000 Because 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.

00:04:52.000 And she is such a powerful story in that way as well.

00:04:55.000 And then the third reason is this is a statement to the world.

00:04:58.000 When 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.

00:05:14.000 They want to show them to the world.

00:05:16.000 They'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.

00:05:24.000 And you guys showed up for Sound of Freedom.

00:05:26.000 And so if you actually go to angel.com/slash Charlie, you can get tickets.

00:05:30.000 If you buy early, you save big.

00:05:32.000 And this tells the theaters how important this is.

00:05:35.000 And it gives us bigger auditoriums and it spreads it throughout the world.

00:05:38.000 Yeah, I think today, right now, if you buy today, it's like 29% off your tickets.

00:05:43.000 This 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.

00:05:52.000 So it's got variable pricing.

00:05:55.000 On Cabrini, I showed it to my, I have an 11-year-old daughter, a 10-year-old daughter, eight-year-old daughter.

00:06:00.000 I have five daughters.

00:06:03.000 I'm a girl dad.

00:06:04.000 And my 10-year-old said this is her favorite movie she's ever seen.

00:06:09.000 I showed it to her early.

00:06:11.000 And this isn't like as a girl dad, this is a girl dad-approved movie.

00:06:16.000 And it's coming out on International Women's Day.

00:06:19.000 Alejandro took it up a notch even from Sound of Freedom.

00:06:22.000 That's amazing.

00:06:24.000 Let's play the trailer here, guys, just so that our audience can get a taste of it.

00:06:27.000 Play Cut 89.

00:06:29.000 If we are to build an empire of hope, let's go, girls. 0.99

00:06:36.000 It seems we must first conquer New York.

00:06:42.000 Do people know rights have it better than the children of Five Points?

00:06:59.000 Have to show America we are all people of dignity.

00:07:03.000 Be careful, Mother.

00:07:04.000 Or this place will eat you alive.

00:07:14.000 You have swattered the hornet's nest.

00:07:17.000 We are bold when we die.

00:07:21.000 It's not safe.

00:07:22.000 Not for you.

00:07:24.000 I should not do that.

00:07:25.000 So, Caprini is the first U.S. citizen ever to be canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

00:07:33.000 Many Christians and even some Catholics don't even know this story.

00:07:36.000 Tell us a little bit more about it, guys.

00:07:38.000 Yeah, 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.

00:07:50.000 And she took that energy and basically became one of the most renowned entrepreneurs of this entire century.

00:08:00.000 She 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.

00:08:12.000 And the importance.

00:08:12.000 Without Cabrini, you don't have Mother Teresa.

00:08:14.000 You don't have Mother Teresa without Cabrini.

00:08:16.000 And so the important thing to remember is that she did it.

00:08:20.000 by leaning into the gifts that she was given by God as a woman, not by trying to pretend that she was something else.

00:08:27.000 And that's an important thing is that so many times in this world, people want to pretend or hijack different movements.

00:08:34.000 Like God gives us unique abilities that we can leverage and that we can use.

00:08:38.000 And Cabrini used those. 0.99

00:08:40.000 She became a powerful person throughout history by being a woman, not by pretending to be something else. 1.00

00:08:46.000 So the, just remind people, angel.com slash Charlie.

00:08:50.000 What is the other kind of initial response?

00:08:52.000 You guys have a guild where they can film that, they could view this, right?

00:08:55.000 And we're going to talk about this throughout the hour.

00:08:57.000 It's really exciting.

00:08:58.000 I'm sure the response has been overwhelmingly positive so far.

00:09:02.000 Yeah, we have a, every show that comes into Angel Studios has to go through what's called the Angel Guild.

00:09:07.000 There's 260,000 guild members around the world who have either growing very rapidly.

00:09:13.000 And you can join the Guild.

00:09:14.000 It's like a Costco Club membership or a Prime membership, if you think of it that way.

00:09:18.000 And what it gives you is the ability to vote and have your voice heard on which films can make it into Angel Studios.

00:09:27.000 I'm the chief content officer at Angel Studios.

00:09:30.000 I can't pick content.

00:09:31.000 No one in our company can pick content unless it first passes the Angel Guild.

00:09:36.000 And so when you join the Angel Guild, you become part of that group.

00:09:39.000 Sound of Freedom had about a thousand people vote on it.

00:09:42.000 And it was seen by approximately 60 million people worldwide because that guild voted Sound of Freedom in.

00:09:49.000 Like if you were a part of the Angel Guild, you got to see Sound of Freedom early and you got to vote on it.

00:09:53.000 You got to see Cabrini early and you got to vote on it.

00:09:55.000 You got to see The Shift, His Only Son, After Death, all these different films.

00:10:00.000 And 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.

00:10:10.000 And so you'll get two movie tickets to Cabrini.

00:10:13.000 You get two movie tickets to a new one coming out on Memorial Day called Sight.

00:10:19.000 And another two tickets on the 4th of July for a movie that's a follow-up to Sound of Freedom called Possum Trot.

00:10:27.000 But the Angel Guild, they get to pick them, and they scored this one as high as anything we've seen.

00:10:33.000 It scored at the same rank as Sound of Freedom.

00:10:36.000 Yeah, 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.

00:10:44.000 And we wanted this to live way beyond us as founders and executives.

00:10:47.000 And 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.

00:10:57.000 It 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.

00:11:04.000 And they're saying, enough is enough.

00:11:06.000 It's time for us to take back what entertainment should look like because they're not serving the broad audience anymore.

00:11:13.000 They're actually serving the small 10% that cares about what they're doing.

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00:11:45.000 Angel 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.

00:11:56.000 That's where that term comes from.

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00:12:58.000 So, getting lots of emails, Jeffrey and Jordan, from some of our Catholic viewers, and they say, Oh, yeah, we know all about Mother Caprini.

00:13:06.000 We grew up and you know, learning about her.

00:13:09.000 And it's interesting, some of the evangelicals said, Who?

00:13:12.000 Who is this person?

00:13:13.000 Never heard of this.

00:13:15.000 So, 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.

00:13:23.000 Just 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.

00:13:36.000 And 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.

00:13:44.000 Like, I rank her up with Thomas Jefferson now.

00:13:48.000 She's incredible.

00:13:48.000 George Washington and the impact that she had on the American people.

00:13:52.000 It was so massive.

00:13:55.000 And 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.

00:14:10.000 I don't think you need to be Catholic to appreciate, although it is. 1.00

00:14:14.000 I mean, we intentionally picked March 8th because it's International Women's Day.

00:14:17.000 It's during Lent and it rolls right into Easter.

00:14:21.000 And so it's a great time to celebrate a lot, many layers of tradition.

00:14:26.000 And 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.

00:14:38.000 Like Alejandro Monteverde, who directed Sound of Freedom, who took the world by storm, who's an incredible storyteller.

00:14:44.000 There's a little bit of history here that I'd like to talk through.

00:14:47.000 He had originally said, I don't want to direct a film about a Catholic saint.

00:14:51.000 He's like, that's not on my list of things I want to do.

00:14:54.000 And then he said, there's movies that I want to do, and then there's movies that I feel called to do.

00:14:57.000 And 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.

00:15:06.000 So he decided he was going to shoot it in black and white.

00:15:08.000 He wasn't actually going to shoot in color.

00:15:10.000 He was going to shoot the entire thing in black and white.

00:15:12.000 In 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.

00:15:21.000 Contrast.

00:15:22.000 You need that contrast inside of a black and white film.

00:15:25.000 And that's, you know, in color, you can usually hide a lot of those things.

00:15:28.000 And 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.

00:15:38.000 And they're like, no, you can't just switch this out last minute.

00:15:42.000 Like, we've built all the sets and everything around the black and white shot.

00:15:45.000 He says, no, I feel strong that needs to be color.

00:15:48.000 They didn't have time to change out anything but the cameras.

00:15:51.000 So they changed out the lenses.

00:15:53.000 They went and shot this thing in color.

00:15:55.000 And the cinematography, my brother Neil said, this isn't a motion picture.

00:16:01.000 This is a motion painting.

00:16:03.000 Every 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.

00:16:19.000 And 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.

00:16:28.000 And 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.

00:16:38.000 And 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.

00:16:50.000 Is that a fair summary? 0.99

00:16:51.000 Yeah, if I understand it right, she built hospitals.

00:16:55.000 And I'm not like a historian on Cabrini, so take it with a grain of salt. 1.00

00:16:58.000 But she built hospitals where the top had the best hospital in the world and they would charge world-class prices for the top. 1.00

00:17:07.000 And 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. 0.99

00:17:16.000 And so she built these systems that allowed the poorest to have the best hospital help through private organizations. 0.85

00:17:24.000 Yeah.

00:17:24.000 And 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.

00:17:38.000 And 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.

00:17:45.000 She wanted people who came here to love this country, love their founders, and love the history that's here.

00:17:52.000 And it's one of the most important stories, especially right now with everything that's happening.

00:17:56.000 It'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.

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00:19:23.000 Get your tickets to the upcoming Caprini film, which I'm really excited to be able to keep sharing with you guys.

00:19:28.000 It's going to be amazing.

00:19:29.000 So either Jeffrey or Jordan, help me understand what's wrong with Hollywood in this regard.

00:19:34.000 If 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.

00:19:46.000 Why is that?

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00:19:53.000 We just kind of get the same boilerplate action films with the same four actors.

00:20:00.000 I think what's happening is that they want to be safe.

00:20:05.000 Hollywood wants to be safe.

00:20:06.000 So they go after the same content.

00:20:07.000 They're like, oh, if we just do Fast and Furious 25, I think the last one was somewhere up there.

00:20:14.000 It's in double digits.

00:20:17.000 They say, oh, people will show up because it's a sequel and sequels are powerful.

00:20:21.000 The other issue that you see is that the Hollywood system, it's not the filmmakers that are the issue here.

00:20:27.000 The filmmakers, the creators, the craftsmen, they love making great craft and they don't, it doesn't bother them.

00:20:35.000 Actually, they get sick of working on sequels.

00:20:37.000 And it doesn't bother them if they're building something about freedom or faith or nihilistic.

00:20:43.000 They just want great craft.

00:20:45.000 And 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.

00:20:54.000 But the issue that we see, that we've identified is the gatekeepers.

00:20:59.000 We call it the gatekeeper problem.

00:21:00.000 There's a little tiny group of people, executives, Hollywood executives, who make all the decisions of what, how many, these $100 million budgets.

00:21:09.000 And they live in a bubble.

00:21:10.000 They all live in these little bubbles in their own communities and they push nihilistic, really dark content on the world.

00:21:22.000 And that's where the problem's at, is the gatekeepers.

00:21:25.000 And so what we've done is we're ripping the gatekeeper system out and then letting the audience make the decisions, the angels.

00:21:33.000 And the Angel Guild makes those decisions and replaces those gatekeepers and decides what gets made.

00:21:39.000 And that's how you end up with movies like series like The Chosen.

00:21:42.000 And that's how you end up with Sound of Freedom.

00:21:43.000 And that's how you end up with Tuttle Twins.

00:21:45.000 And that's how you end up with Cabrini.

00:21:47.000 And these films exist because we're removing the gatekeepers and we're putting it in the hands of the viewers rather than the gatekeepers.

00:21:58.000 And we're also finding that the gatekeepers, the audience is actually making better decisions.

00:22:03.000 They are able to make a better decision.

00:22:05.000 There'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.

00:22:14.000 And we've learned this throughout history.

00:22:15.000 I mean, it's the beautiful part of the invisible hand and capitalism.

00:22:18.000 And like people can make really good decisions when you give them the freedom to do so.

00:22:24.000 And so people can become part of the guild, is that right?

00:22:24.000 Yeah.

00:22:27.000 And you guys have some really big plans.

00:22:29.000 It's just getting started and a lot of films are getting submitted.

00:22:32.000 Kind of talk about, I know you mentioned this earlier, but please go into great detail.

00:22:36.000 People go to angel.com slash Charlie.

00:22:38.000 They got to kind of be on the insider track.

00:22:41.000 They get to be a stakeholder in, I mean, also, as the second part of the question, what is the equivalent?

00:22:48.000 Is it MGM?

00:22:49.000 Is it Warner Brothers?

00:22:50.000 Or is it more of just kind of the backroom type stuff?

00:22:53.000 Is there an equivalent you could offer?

00:22:55.000 Last year was our first year being a studio that goes to theaters.

00:23:00.000 Angel 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.

00:23:08.000 And we took the eighth spot domestically in the total box office.

00:23:13.000 Yeah, head of MGM and quite a few other big ones.

00:23:16.000 And a bunch of other big ones. 0.94

00:23:17.000 And Angel just rocketed right up into the top 10.

00:23:20.000 And so those are the competitors.

00:23:23.000 That's the competitive landscape.

00:23:26.000 What happens is the theaters, they don't, The theater owners worldwide are owned by regular people.

00:23:36.000 They're mom and pops.

00:23:37.000 Like 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.

00:23:47.000 So your local theater is owned by your neighbor or other people.

00:23:52.000 And there's three big chains, Cinemark, Regal, and AMC.

00:23:56.000 And even those are owned by Christian families.

00:24:00.000 And these are, they don't really align with the Hollywood world.

00:24:05.000 And so as long as we can compete, as long as you show up to order tickets.

00:24:10.000 So, for example, with Sound of Freedom, it was our second theatrical release.

00:24:15.000 And we decided to go straight for the heart of the cinematic world, which is July 4th last year.

00:24:20.000 July 4th is the number one.

00:24:22.000 Between Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible.

00:24:24.000 Yeah, right between Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible, two of the biggest movies released of all time.

00:24:28.000 And we went right in the center on July 4th, which is the hardest day of the year to compete.

00:24:35.000 And what happened is we said, if we can get just 1,200 theaters to say yes, then we'll sell those theaters out.

00:24:41.000 And a huge part of the reason why we sold it out is shows like yours or Bannon on this on this on this network.

00:24:51.000 He 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.

00:25:00.000 And he sold tons of tickets.

00:25:02.000 Like your network came in and bought seats and seats and seats and seats.

00:25:07.000 And then the theater saw it and they said, look, it's performing.

00:25:11.000 Sound of Freedom is outselling Indiana Jones and it's outselling Mission Impossible.

00:25:17.000 We're going to add some more locations.

00:25:18.000 And then we sold those out and then we added more locations.

00:25:21.000 And by the time we launched, it was a full huge wide release that ended up beating Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible in the theaters.

00:25:30.000 And 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.

00:25:43.000 And 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.

00:25:50.000 That's where Cabrini's at right now.

00:25:52.000 There are hundreds of thousands of people buying tickets.

00:25:54.000 And we've actually set it up to where if you buy early, you get them cheaper.

00:25:59.000 And number two, you get a move.

00:26:01.000 We call it flexible booking, where anytime up until the hour before your showtime, you can move your seat to a different showtime.

00:26:10.000 So 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.

00:26:17.000 That 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.

00:26:35.000 These movies that are coming up that have been voted on by the crowd and that will not disappoint.

00:26:42.000 These movies are excellent.

00:26:43.000 And I think another important point of this is that we're already selling out theaters.

00:26:43.000 That's right.

00:26:49.000 I was just looking at Florida.

00:26:50.000 We're in Florida.

00:26:51.000 And 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.

00:27:01.000 And so the momentum is picking up, but we need to put more pressure on them.

00:27:06.000 That's why we're saying buy release, save big.

00:27:08.000 We're so grateful for partners like you, Charlie.

00:27:10.000 You 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.

00:27:10.000 We're coming in.

00:27:17.000 We're in 2,400 locations and growing.

00:27:19.000 New locations are being added daily.

00:27:21.000 So 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.

00:27:34.000 And that is really, really important to helping us get these stories that amplify light out into the world.

00:27:40.000 And these are the mechanisms, stories and content.

00:27:42.000 The 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.

00:27:51.000 Yeah.

00:27:52.000 And I was saying, like, I'm a girl dad.

00:27:54.000 I have five girls, one boy, five girls.

00:27:58.000 And I've shown this movie to my girls because I want them.

00:28:03.000 This is a girl dad movie.

00:28:05.000 It's a movie for everybody.

00:28:06.000 But 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. 1.00

00:28:27.000 The 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.

00:28:40.000 And Catholic schools.

00:28:41.000 Because she designed this system that brought so much care to the poor of the world.

00:28:48.000 And she showed that an individual can do that.

00:28:51.000 We as individuals can do that.

00:28:52.000 You don't need government intervention.

00:28:53.000 You don't need all these extra excesses and mass attacks to solve these problems.

00:28:58.000 She came in and said, with the individual and with private enterprise, we are going to solve these problems.

00:29:04.000 As a father, I have two goals for my kids.

00:29:07.000 One is that they can feel free to talk to God and be able to recognize when he's talking to them.

00:29:15.000 And number two is that they know that they can change the world around them, that they can have an impact.

00:29:21.000 And this movie teaches both of those things.

00:29:23.000 This is a, like, I say it's a girl dad movie.

00:29:25.000 That's because I have girls.

00:29:27.000 But it's like, go.

00:29:28.000 It's a movie for everybody.

00:29:29.000 So you can go to angel.com slash Charlie and you can get group discounts.

00:29:29.000 Yeah.

00:29:33.000 Like if you, if you, if you buy a group, you get, you get better discounts.

00:29:37.000 But that we show the world that these kind of movies are needed just by getting tickets early.

00:29:44.000 The globalists are making it very clear that another pandemic could be just around the corner.

00:29:48.000 They want us to live in fear, to be willing to sacrifice our freedoms.

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00:30:33.000 So, guys, give us some of the inside baseball.

00:30:36.000 Did you have a gut feeling Sound of Freedom was going to perform better than even Napoleon?

00:30:42.000 I mean, give us some of the backstory because it's one of the great successes and surprised so many people.

00:30:49.000 We know we had Jim Caviesel on the show.

00:30:51.000 I just saw Jim recently.

00:30:52.000 He's a great American.

00:30:54.000 But did you think this was going to be the grand slam it was or were even you guys blown away?

00:30:59.000 We definitely saw the signs because we're a very data-driven company.

00:31:03.000 And so we were watching in a way that Hollywood doesn't.

00:31:06.000 Matter 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.

00:31:16.000 And 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.

00:31:25.000 And 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.

00:31:33.000 Yeah, they had gotten up to like $10 million for opening.

00:31:35.000 And we did, you know, $14.5 million opening day.

00:31:37.000 And so we knew we were pacing way ahead of who we were doing.

00:31:40.000 We were doing projections and I was doing an interview.

00:31:43.000 And they were like, how do you think it will hold up to the projections?

00:31:46.000 And I said, well, we've already pre-sold more tickets than their projections.

00:31:49.000 So I think we're going to beat them.

00:31:52.000 But 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.

00:32:09.000 That 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.

00:32:18.000 And that's the power you have to drive a narrative and to drive a dialogue and a discussion.

00:32:23.000 Cabrini has a similar type impact.

00:32:25.000 It is a film that is of the 1800s, but is for today.

00:32:29.000 It is talking about the things that are so important today.

00:32:32.000 And 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.

00:32:43.000 We want more content like this.

00:32:44.000 This story needs to be told and it needs to be seen by millions around the world.

00:32:48.000 I know it changed my 10-year-old daughter's perspective.

00:32:53.000 She'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?

00:33:06.000 She's asking, can I do Girls' Night?

00:33:09.000 And 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.

00:33:20.000 You 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.

00:33:27.000 If you focus and rely on God, this movie does that for your kids.

00:33:31.000 And it's done to the quality of the Godfather in anything Hollywood's doing.

00:33:34.000 It's angel.com slash Charlie.

00:33:37.000 So do you guys see the same sort of data for this film or you're seeing the similar type of momentum?

00:33:44.000 We are seeing very similar behaviors around this film.

00:33:47.000 And I think there's a lot of facets of it.

00:33:49.000 It's slightly lower in pre-sales, but it's pretty darn close.

00:33:55.000 It's not the 4th of July.

00:33:56.000 So March 8th isn't like.

00:33:57.000 It's not as big of a date as the 4th of July.

00:33:59.000 But that being said, it has some very similar signals.

00:34:02.000 And there's some themes in this film that are going to really rock the world.

00:34:06.000 I 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.

00:34:17.000 You have people in this film who are trying to shut her down and keep her from doing what she was doing.

00:34:22.000 And she just perseveres through it.

00:34:23.000 It's one of the most powerful stories I've heard in a long time.

00:34:27.000 So check it out, angel.com slash Charlie.

00:34:29.000 Hope to see you guys soon.

00:34:30.000 Hold down the fort.

00:34:31.000 We're going to be doing everything we can to mobilize our audience and to join the guild and to see the film.

00:34:36.000 And it's really important.

00:34:37.000 You guys get an insider stake.

00:34:39.000 You're going to be part of changing Hollywood for the better. 0.94

00:34:41.000 None of this trash that you see out there, these vile pictures. 0.90

00:34:45.000 I mean, you look at Sound of Freedom, you look at Caprini. 0.84

00:34:47.000 These are uplifting.

00:34:48.000 These are beautiful.

00:34:50.000 Really, they're virtuous films.

00:34:53.000 Great job, guys.

00:34:54.000 See you soon.

00:34:55.000 Thank you.

00:34:55.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:34:56.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:58.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

00:35:05.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 15, 2024

Reclaiming Hollywood, One Film at a Time

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