***** Sound of Freedom

POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 03:13
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, July 6, 2023 5:27 AM

This is the best film I've seen this year. Probably in 2 years or more.
This film is a true story.

I give it 5 Stars.
Intense, harrowing, gritty, adventurous.
BIG DAMN HEROICS - in Real Life.

I went to see this on July 4th, opening Day.
I was disappointed to find that the show I intended was grayed out, the only grayed oout listing on the board at the Box Office. It was Sold Out. I decided to get a ticket for the next show, about an hour later. I got the last seat for that showing. With an hour to kill, I wandered the halls of this Cineplex.
Of 16 screens at this plex, 4 were showing Sound of Freedom. The display screens at the entrances show which seats are available and sold in the theater. All 4 screens of SoF had no available seats. Every other film had available seats for their showings. Spiderman and Mermaid had 1/2 to 4/5 of their seats available.
3 hours later, after exiting the film, I looked again - same thing. SoF with zero seats available, every single other film had seats available.
It has been more than a week of 90 degree temps here.

Before I forget, there is a sort of coda. You don't need me to tell you, because when credits roll, there is a countdown timer on screen stating Special Message. Nobody in the Sold Out theater left during the couple minutes the oountdown ran. During the countdown, you should get your phone turned on, although they don't state that right away. There were no other codas.

I've seen several films this year. John Wick 4, Knock At The Cabin, others which I have not had time to post about here (I really should do Knock).
Sound of Freedom is the best film so far this year.
Last year was Maverick, which created discontinuity with reality when Tom cowtowed to the Chinese. SoF is better, it is in continuity with reality - because it is a true story.
The year before was Free Guy. Both Maverick and Free Guy are more fun, but Sound of Freedom has far more gravitas.
Before Free Guy was Nobody. SoF reminded me of Nobody because of the grittiness of both films - lacking in Maverick and Free Guy. But Nobody is fiction, plus CGI. Sound of Freedom is a true story.
The closest comparison I can recall is Last Full Measure, but this is still better.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=63515

Apparently, Sound of Freedom was completed 5 years ago, and then obstructed, attacked, blocked from release by powerful people and forces, like Big Tech.
Just for it to be on the big screen at all is a major triumph and victory over the corrupt pedophiles of Hollywood and Disney.

The lead actress, the female with the most screen time, is ~~Alanna De La Rossa~~ Cristal Aparicio, and she would have been ~~8 or 9~~ 10 or 11 during filming.
Playing financial savior Pablo is Eduardo Verastegui, who is also Producer of the film. He once started a film company which would produce films which have an impact, just like this one.

I did not detect any CGI in this film. Again, it is a true story. There is one possible piece which may have had CGI in it.

5 years ago predates the Worst of Woke, where we are now. There is no Woke in this film. It is a true story, the antithesis of Woke. Truth, fact, and reality are the opposite of Woke.

One quote sequence sticks with me.
"but there is an Army of armed Rebels surrounding her!"
"yeah. So?"
Seems close to "I get it" from John Wick. (after "he killed my dog")

I did not find comic relief in this film. When I was in English class in Jr. High School, we read The Diary of Anne Frank. In our essay, we were required to comment on the comic relief in the book. When time to review all of the answers in the class, the teacher started by admitting that one student refused to address this facet, writing something like the caliber of evil/horror of this subject matter precludes any genuine comic relief, and the teacher gave her an A for that response (she later became our Valedictorian.)
Sound of Freedom d

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, July 6, 2023 5:36 AM

Mojo and Numbers were asleep most of the day, making no mention at all about this film on Opening Day.

HITC had some info. It says it is a "Low Budget" film at $25 million to produce.
It is expected to make about $20 million in it's first 6 days of release. Opening in 2,600 theaters.

They also mentioned that the studio had admitted they had $10 million of pre-sold tickets.

Later in the day, Numbers woke up and reported &14.2 million Box Office on Tuesday.
AFAICT, this makes it the 5th ranked Domestic Tuesday Opening Box Office in history.
1. Spiderman 2019 ($39.2)
2. Transformers 2007 ($27.8)
3. Les Miserables 2012 ($18.1)
4. DJango Unchained 2012 ($15.0)
5. Sound of Freedom 2023 ($14.2)

Also, the 2nd-10th films (for July 4) combined contributed less than $9 million to the Box Office for Tuesday.

Sound of Freedom earned over $5,400 per theater. I don't recall how good that is.

If there was only $4 million of same-day Box Office sales, that is still twice what the 2nd-most ticketed film was.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 6, 2023 9:01 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Mojo and Numbers were asleep most of the day, making no mention at all about this film on Opening Day.

HITC had some info. It says it is a "Low Budget" film at $25 million to produce.
It is expected to make about $20 million in it's first 6 days of release. Opening in 2,600 theaters.

They also mentioned that the studio had admitted they had $10 million of pre-sold tickets.

For the most part, the actual numbers are even better than what you were told...

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/7/anee9p5qc0z1dy8iedjt0rfp5972z3

And yeah... I didn't hear shit about this movie until just now, only noticing that you made a post about it after I posted about it in the Indiana Jones failure thread.

The budget was a lean $15 Million, so in one single day it only came up less than $800k short of that. I'm assuming that there was near zero marketing budget since I've never even heard of it before, but it should have no problem doubling the production budget, pretty quickly.

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Also, the 2nd-10th films (for July 4) combined contributed less than $9 million to the Box Office for Tuesday.

This is incorrect. Indy 5 alone made $11,698,989 on Tuesday, but it was still knocked out of 1st place on its 5th day in the box office by Sound of Freedom, which is going to be a source of very much laughter from the YT community when they realize this is the case.

I didn't bother adding it up, but the 3rd place through 10th place movies made over $10 Million on Tuesday.

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Sound of Freedom earned over $5,400 per theater. I don't recall how good that is.

For a movie with a $15 million budget that wasn't advertised, this is FANTASTIC.

To put it in perspective, Indy 5, with a budget 20 times as large, only grossed $5,148 per theater on opening night, and it had a $300 Million production budget (But Indy 5 is a huge bomb). Avatar 2 (Not a bomb), made $12,661 per theater on opening night, but it also had a reported $460 Million budget, which was over 30 times as large as Sound of Freedom's budget.

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Later in the day, Numbers woke up and reported &14.2 million Box Office on Tuesday.
AFAICT, this makes it the 5th ranked Domestic Tuesday Opening Box Office in history.
1. Spiderman 2019 ($39.2)
2. Transformers 2007 ($27.8)
3. Les Miserables 2012 ($18.1)
4. DJango Unchained 2012 ($15.0)
5. Sound of Freedom 2023 ($14.2)

Though this may be true, it's kind of reaching, IMO. I don't imagine the list of movies that were released on a Tuesday in the history of US cinema is a very long one.

That being said, it is the 55th highest grossing Tuesday in the US box office of all time, which IS very impressive when you look at the list of 54 movies that topped it on what for most of them would be their 5th day of release and you realize how big all of their production budgets were compared to Sound of Freedom.

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/bes
t-performance-by-day-of-the-week/tuesday

I mean, number 1 on that list is Spider-Man: Far From Home at $39,255,628, and that had a $160 Million production budget. Avatar 2's first Tuesday was only $24,128,503, and like I mentioned before, that had a $460 Million budget.

I suspect that this movie was pretty front-loaded on viewership and don't really expect it to stay in theaters all that long, but with good word of mouth it should have a pretty decent first weekend in theaters and very easily jump past that predicted $20 Million in the first 6 days of release with more than $14.2 Million already under its belt on Tuesday.

And no matter what happens, it will be the movie that embarrassed Indiana Jones, Disney, Lucasfilm, Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy by taking the crown from their most expensive movie of 2023 in only it's 5th day in the theaters. An amazing feat, even if we don't see it repeated again this weekend or otherwise going forwa

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, July 6, 2023 4:40 PM

Interesting this movie is doing well, I'm not sure it will be shown international. It was very rare to see any promotion or attention or advertising, human trafficking, exploitation and abuse of kids, illegal smuggling....the message perhaps it is opposite to Hollyweirdo culture, the people like Woody Allen, O J Simpson, Bill Cosby, Kevin Spacey, R Kelly, Epstein, Weinstein, so does Hollyweird even want to touch such a subject.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, July 7, 2023 3:21 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I suspect that this movie was pretty front-loaded on viewership and don't really expect it to stay in theaters all that long, but with good word of mouth it should have a pretty decent first weekend in theaters and very easily jump past that predicted $20 Million in the first 6 days of release with more than $14.2 Million already under its belt on Tuesday.

And no matter what happens, it will be the movie that embarrassed Indiana Jones, Disney, Lucasfilm, Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy by taking the crown from their most expensive movie of 2023 in only it's 5th day in the theaters. An amazing feat, even if we don't see it repeated again this weekend or otherwise going forward.

It didn't beat Indy 5 yesterday, but it did do another $4,047,558 in business, giving it $18,289,621 in only 2 days. It's going to sleepwalk past $20 Million in only 3 days.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, July 7, 2023 3:27 AM

The movie finished filming and was ready to go in 2018. But then Disney bought FOX and shelved it for years.

It's only fitting that it came out and took 1st place from Indy 5 on 4th of July when it finally did get released 5 years later.

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, July 7, 2023 5:39 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I suspect that this movie was pretty front-loaded on viewership and don't really expect it to stay in theaters all that long, but with good word of mouth it should have a pretty decent first weekend in theaters and very easily jump past that predicted $20 Million in the first 6 days of release with more than $14.2 Million already under its belt on Tuesday.

And no matter what happens, it will be the movie that embarrassed Indiana Jones, Disney, Lucasfilm, Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy by taking the crown from their most expensive movie of 2023 in only it's 5th day in the theaters. An amazing feat, even if we don't see it repeated again this weekend or otherwise going forward.
It didn't beat Indy 5 yesterday, but it did do another $4,047,558 in business, giving it $18,289,621 in only 2 days. It's going to sleepwalk past $20 Million in only 3 days.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

I don't expect folk who work for a living to fill the theaters on Wed and Thurs. And Tuesday tickets were hard to come by, every show was Sold Out.

Wednesday still had the highest per screen average in America. For Tuesday and Wed, SoF pulled in over $1M more than Indy5 did in those 2 days. Let's see how well it does over the weekend.

It is the best film of the year, so far.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, July 7, 2023 5:51 AM

ETA: The female lead, Rocio is played by Cristal Aparicio. Alanna De La Rossa is credited as her double, or stand-in, or something like that. After several weeks have passed since it's release, the imdb pages are much more filled out.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
The lead actress, the female with the most screen time, is Alanna De La Rossa, and she would have been 8 or 9 during filming.

This may be incorrect. I am not sure.

imdb credits Rocio as being played by Cristal Aparicio. Alanna De La Rossa has no role credited.
I am not sure if these are the same person. Both listed as Columbian born, but 2 years apart. No current photo for Cristal on imdb. Alanna has photo, but many of her credits have no role specified. They are both listed as appearing in a number of the same shows. Alanna has several credits saying "using a different name" without specifying what. Alanna seems to have current photos, but not much from 5 years ago, even on the web. Cristal has many photos on the web, looking like she did in the film 5 years ago, but apparently not much since then. The photos from the time where they may have switched names seem to be similar in appearance.

Cristal would have been 10-11 years old during filming.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, July 7, 2023 6:01 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Mojo and Numbers were asleep most of the day, making no mention at all about this film on Opening Day.

HITC had some info. It says it is a "Low Budget" film at $25 million to produce.
It is expected to make about $20 million in it's first 6 days of release. Opening in 2,600 theaters.

They also mentioned that the studio had admitted they had $10 million of pre-sold tickets.
For the most part, the actual numbers are even better than what you were told...
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/7/anee9p5qc0z1dy8iedjt0rfp5972z3
And yeah... I didn't hear shit about this movie until just now, only noticing that you made a post about it after I posted about it in the Indiana Jones failure thread.

The budget was a lean $15 Million, so in one single day it only came up less than $800k short of that. I'm assuming that there was near zero marketing budget since I've never even heard of it before, but it should have no problem doubling the production budget, pretty quickly.

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Also, the 2nd-10th films (for July 4) combined contributed less than $9 million to the Box Office for Tuesday.
This is incorrect. Indy 5 alone made $11,698,989 on Tuesday, but it was still knocked out of 1st place on its 5th day in the box office by Sound of Freedom, which is going to be a source of very much laughter from the YT community when they realize this is the case.

You are correct. After waiting the whole day for Bruce to wake up (since you follow him, he must have also not ever heard of the best film of the year), when it finally posted. I went with it. i didn't know that he slow-rolls out the figures. When I finally saw it, there were 10 films total listed, with $24m as the total Box office take.
I still don't know what happened to Boogeyman in his charts.

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Sound of Freedom earned over $5,400 per theater. I don't recall how good that is.
For a movie with a $15 million budget that wasn't advertised, this is FANTASTIC.

To put it in perspective, Indy 5, with a budget 20 times as large, only grossed $5,148 per theater on opening night, and it had a $300 Million production budget (But Indy 5 is a huge bomb). Avatar 2 (Not a bomb), made $12,661 per theater on opening night, but it also had a reported $460 Million budget, which was over 30 times as large as Sound of Freedom's budget.
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Later in the day, Numbers woke up and reported &14.2 million Box Office on Tuesday.
AFAICT, this makes it the 5th ranked Domestic Tuesday Opening Box Office in history.
1. Spiderman 2019 ($39.2)
2. Transformers 2007 ($27.8)
3. Les Miserables 2012 ($18.1)
4. DJango Unchained 2012 ($15.0)
5. Sound of Freedom 2023 ($14.2)
Though this may be true, it's kind of reaching, IMO. I don't imagine the list of movies that were released on a Tuesday in the history of US cinema is a very long one.

That being said, it is the 55th highest grossing Tuesday in the US box office of all time, which IS very impressive when you look at the list of 54 movies that topped it on what for most of them would be their 5th day of release and you realize how big all of their production budgets were compared to Sound of Freedom.

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/bes
t-performance-by-day-of-the-week/tuesday
I mean, number 1 on that list is Spider-Man: Far From Home at $39,255,628, and that had a $160 Million production budget. Avatar 2's first Tuesday was only $24,128,503, and like I mentioned before, that had a $460 Million budget.

I suspect that this movie was pretty front-loaded on viewership and don't really expect it to stay in theaters all that long, but with good word of mouth it should have a pretty decent first weekend in theaters and very easily jump past that predicted $20 Million in the first 6 days of release with more than $14.2 Million already under its belt on Tuesday.

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