‘Sound Of Freedom’ Tops $10M in Box Office PreSales

“Sound of Freedom” has “topped the $10 million” mark in presales at the box office just two days ahead of the release of the movie-in theaters in the United States and Canada-that deals with the horrors of human trafficking.

In a press release from Angel Studios, the company responsible for the popular faith-based television series “The Chosen,” Jared Geesey, SVP of Global Distribution for the studio thanked fans who he said continue to support Christian projects.

“Time and again, Angel fans have proven that they’ll support films that are entertaining and inspiring, and ‘SOUND OF FREEDOM’ is no exception,” Geesey said.

“Industry experts are telling us this surge in presales is stunning the whole industry, but we believe the Angels marshaling their resources for this film aim for it to stun people outside of our industry, to wake audiences all over the globe to the plight of these children,” he added.

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— Angel Studios (@AngelStudiosInc) July 2, 2023

“We are now closer to our goal of selling two million tickets this opening week to symbolize the two million children who are trapped in the horrors of trafficking each year,” Geesey concluded, noting the studio’s goal of getting “2 million people into theaters opening week to remember the 2 million children who are trafficked each year.”

In the highly-anticipated movie, actor Jim Caviezel portrays Tim Ballard in the true story of a federal agent who quits his job and embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue a young girl from sex slavery in South America.

Caviezel recently discussed how his new movie is a “rejection of what they are doing to our Christian culture right now” as he slammed the “Christian bigotry” he said is happening around the world.

During the 54-year-old’s appearance on the Christian podcast “Prophets and Patriots,” “Christian bigotry is the most accepted form of bigotry, right now, in the world,” Caviezel told the host. “And they are okay with that. Well, not anymore. That’s done.”

The “Passion of the Christ” star also revealed recently that Disney wanted him to remove the mention of “God” from the script of his 2002 movie “The Count of Monte Cristo.”

Caviezel-who played Edmond Dantes in the adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel-said he pushed back and Disney backed off.

“They wanted me to remove ‘God’ from all the script. True story … what happened to God? ‘God will give me justice,'” he said. “I had to say, no, I can’t do this.'”

“Disney said, ‘oh, so you’re one of those?’ I said, ‘one of those what? One of those who re-write Alexandre Dumas? One of those who re-write Shakespeare?'” he added. “Because that’s essentially what you did. So I held my ground and by God they backed off.”

Sound of Freedom” hits theaters on July 4, 2023.

Democrats Revive Calls To Pack Supreme Court

Democrats revived calls to pack the Supreme Court with liberals last week after the court’s conservative majority decided several cases the wrong way, as liberals view it.

On Thursday and Friday, the Supreme Court handed down three decisions on multiple closely watched cases. The court ruled against Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s race-based admissions processes, it ruled in favor of a Christian graphic designer who did not want to make wedding websites for same-sex couples, and the court struck down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program.

Democrats and liberals raged at the high court, some calling to expand the court’s bench to dilute the conservative majority, which was cemented by former President Donald Trump’s three conservative nominees.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said it would not be “extreme” to add more justices.

“Expanding the size of the Supreme Court isn’t extreme or unprecedented — but the opinions of this Court certainly are,” Schiff wrote in a tweet Friday.

Expanding the size of the Supreme Court isn’t extreme or unprecedented — but the opinions of this Court certainly are.

— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) June 30, 2023

Schiff repeated his call to pack the court in an email to supporters of his Senate campaign, but he switched the language, dubbing it “unpacking” the court.

“We must unpack the court by expanding the number of justices on the court, instituting term limits, and enacting a code of ethics like every other federal court,” Schiff wrote to supporters, according to Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard.

“I’ve spent years talking about the need to expand, unstack, and reform the Supreme Court after Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell stacked it with partisans. This week we saw firsthand the consequences of its imbalance,” Schiff added in the email.

Schiff was just censured last month in the House. The censure resolution accused Schiff of misleading the American public about Trump’s supposed ties to Russia while leading the House Intelligence Committee’s investigations into the president.

Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said Sunday that packing the court should be on the table.

“I think everything should be on the table,” Pressley said on MSNBC, responding to a question about whether she supports adding more justices.

The Supreme Court “has been emboldened in rolling back the hands of time, undermining and rolling back what should be fundamental civil human rights,” she added.

“So everything should be on the table: reform and expansion,” Pressley said.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has previously called for expanding the Supreme Court, and on Sunday she called for checking the court’s power.

“The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court,” Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday on CNN.

Some liberal academics called to pack the court as well.

“Biden Won’t Pack the Supreme Court, and It’s Killing Democracy,” read the headline of a Friday Newsweek opinion article by David Faris, an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University in the Chicago area.

“With or without Biden, court expansion must become a litmus test for any Democrat who wants to pursue federal office,” Faris wrote. “The alternative is to spend the next 15 Junes learning which part of American public life has been needlessly upended by corrupt, originalist fanatics, and which new ways the Supreme Court has made it easier for Republicans to gain and wield power.”

Meanwhile, most Americans do not support adding justices to the bench, although most Democrats appear to want a packed court.

About 55% of voters oppose expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, while 64% of Democrats support adding the extra four justices, according to a survey last year from the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports.

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