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My local theater has 4 showings per day in a medium size auditorium that are practically sold out. I sent the following email to the manager

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First, I would like to thank you for making this film available, it was incredibly powerful and important. My wife and I are both grateful for the opportunity to experience it at our favorite venue.

I sincerely hope the demand for this film continues, or even grows beyond the current pace. My wife informed me last week that she was finally able to secure tickets to see this film today, which was not a film even on my radar.

Please consider expanding the viewing opportunities for The Sound of Freedom for our community. I understand the heavier marketed films require the space availability of the largest theaters; however, I can't help but notice that The Sound of Freedom continues to have the heaviest pre sales in next few days based on your online ticket site. I would never expect this film to supplant a blockbuster in your theater's main auditoriums, I just hope you give our community ample opportunity to experience this powerful story. Specifically, I ask you to consider adding additional showings in the late afternoon/early evening when this movie appears to be completely sold out for the next week. I hate to think that a walk in would not have the opportunity to grab a last minute ticket to this show during opening week.

I comprehend the economics involved in empty seats and if you don't see the benefit to additional availability, I would certainly understand. I am only asking that you strongly consider adjusting your schedule and availability for this film as soon as possible.

Thank you, and have a happy and safe 4th of July.

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At the end of the credits there is a 3 minute video talking about the limited marketing budget and asking viewers to help promote the film and even pay it forward by buying tickets for those who may not be able to purchase themselves. It was my opinion that buying tickets was one avenue to assist, it appears that in my community the limiting factor of eyeballs is availability of showings/seats.

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While I never received a response from my email, at some point in the last 2 hours a show was added for 4:30PM today and it is in an auditorium that has been showing Indiana Jones. This auditorium holds 120 seats versus the 60 seat auditorium that Sound of Freedom has been showing in.

Starting tomorrow, although it still only has 4 showings per day through the weekend, 2 of the 4 showings each day will be in the 120 seat auditorium that was previously reserved for IJ5.

May be talking about the same theater as you, but my wife has been wanting to see it and it has been practically sold out. An additional showing was added today and a neighbor texted to let her know. She grabbed tickets and told me that showing was already 50 out of 100 seats purchased.

I am going to take my 17 and 14 year old teenage sons this weekend as I need them to see this and know this is an evil in the world they will inherit from my generation. My wife won't go. She get's it but it gets her too emotional.

I have forwarded links to this/your thread to family and friends.

As an aside, I perused the Entertainment Board thread on same topic and it was just weird. I mean, if there is any topic that should get universal acceptance of, it's hunting down (and killing as needed) any POS, globally, that would do this to young people. But no, let's argue about semantics, having the "wrong" people in it, having the "wrong" organizations promoting the film, etc.

Why is mainstream Hollywood and the entertainment media in general so silent on this? I mean, these are the same people that tarred and feathered Harvey Weinstein. Oh wait, I'm sorry, these are the same people that made jokes about Weinstein being a sex predator at award shows. My bad.

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I just checked in and found a 4 page thread on another board. It highlights the obstacles that this film faced getting distributed. There are talks in that thread (by one person) referencing the lead actors political views (beware, Q warning!).

The film is being painted as conspiratorial based on the actors political views. However, the actual work of art does not deal with politics in any form or fashion, unless God's children are not for sale is somehow a divisive political statement. Hollywood sure seems to be making it political by referencing Jim Caviezels political views. Why so many attack articles and roadblocks if we all agree that human trafficking and pedophilia are bad?

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I saw this story linked from Drudge this morning and the slant was appalling.
https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/07/06/hollywood-upset-indiana-jones-beaten-at-box-office-on-july-4th-by-christian-film-from-small-upstart-outlier-utah-based-movie-company

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The rib and I saw it yesterday. We really liked it.

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P.H. Dexippus said:

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Eso si, Que es said:

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I just checked in and found a 4 page thread on another board. It highlights the obstacles that this film faced getting distributed. There are talks in that thread (by one person) referencing the lead actors political views (beware, Q warning!).

The film is being painted as conspiratorial based on the actors political views. However, the actual work of art does not deal with politics in any form or fashion, unless God's children are not for sale is somehow a divisive political statement. Hollywood sure seems to be making it political by referencing Jim Caviezels political views. Why so many attack articles and roadblocks if we all agree that human trafficking and pedophilia are bad?

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I saw this story linked from Drudge this morning and the slant was appalling.
https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/07/06/hollywood-upset-indiana-jones-beaten-at-box-office-on-july-4th-by-christian-film-from-small-upstart-outlier-utah-based-movie-company

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I scanned the article. The very first paragraph and title aver that Hollywood is mad because this movie beat out Indians Jones on the 4th. But does it ever provide any proof of that? Box office numbers? Statements from Hollywood insiders? Maybe it just missed it.

Just saying if you don't even try to provide evidence for the entire premise of your article then I'm going to assume everything you've written is to be treated with skepticism.

Just bad journalism.

55th best Tuesday in history.

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

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55th best Tuesday in history.

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

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user name checks out

Saw this tonight. Very well done, extremely compelling storytelling. Go see this movie. Thanks for posting about this.

Entertainment board thread is back

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3385054

Looks like a lot of dram queen posts.

I may be one of the very few people working this week and will be busy most of the weekend. But over the years I have read several articles saying Operation Underground Railroad is not who they make themselves out to be. I would need to dive down into their financials to confirm if it is just hit pieces to try and slow their progress down or if there are speckles of truth in the articles. I hope they are just hit pieces since they seem to be doing the world good but there have been other big non-profits like Wounded Warrior that took more money than they gave.

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Eso si, Que es said:

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I just checked in and found a 4 page thread on another board. It highlights the obstacles that this film faced getting distributed. There are talks in that thread (by one person) referencing the lead actors political views (beware, Q warning!).

The film is being painted as conspiratorial based on the actors political views. However, the actual work of art does not deal with politics in any form or fashion, unless God's children are not for sale is somehow a divisive political statement. Hollywood sure seems to be making it political by referencing Jim Caviezels political views. Why so many attack articles and roadblocks if we all agree that human trafficking and pedophilia are bad?

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I saw this story linked from Drudge this morning and the slant was appalling.
https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/07/06/hollywood-upset-indiana-jones-beaten-at-box-office-on-july-4th-by-christian-film-from-small-upstart-outlier-utah-based-movie-company

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So is the grammar.

Someone showed me a screenshot and Sound of Freedom was number one at the box office this week. Wonder if Fox is kicking themselves in the butt for not releasing it

Taken from the other thread. It is insane how hard some people are pushing against this movie. Ignoring the issues that they say are worse than child trafficking, can 2 things not be important at the same time?

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Rolling Stone published an article with title: "'Sound Of Freedom' Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms." The sub-headline reads: "The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer."

The author accuses the movie of "fomenting moral panic for years over this grossly exaggerated 'epidemic' of child sex-trafficking, much of it funneling people into conspiracist rabbit holes and QAnon communities."

"There is visible suffering all around us in America. There are poor and unhoused, and people brutalized or killed by police," the Rolling Stone piece reads. "There are mass shootings, lack of healthcare, climate disasters. And yet, over and over, the far right turns to these sordid fantasies about godless monsters hurting children."

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Go see this film.

It is terribly ironic. The other thread that is. They (a few) are/were calling out the promotion of the movie citing Qanon or whatever to push political agendas, while using articles that a clearly pushing political agendas as justification for their stance.

Just wait until you connect all the dots:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/04/sex-lies-psychological-scars-ukraine-human-trafficking-crisis

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The country has long been a regional trafficking hub. The IOM estimates that more than 160,000 people have been trafficked from the country since independence in 1991.

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For god's sake, just go look up the history of Tim Ballard.

If you want to bash the movie, the actors, QAnon (really ignorant), etc., fine, have at it. Show your ass! But if one wants to take a tad bit of time out of your day, then do some research on Ballard alone. There's this below:



And then there's this one from a month ago.



If you want to live in ignorance while modern slavery is happening right now in front of, and around you, then that's your choice to live in ignorance, but it's happening whether you want to make it political or not.

Is it that hard to believe? Satan is real and he has a mission... Hollywood is twisted and evil as hell. Is it hard to believe those that are most tied in or as a couple of them claim to be "insiders" over there are against this movie?

I'm angry about it, but I'm not surprised.

Excellent and disquieting movie. Be sure to stay for the special message at the conclusion of the credits.

I know there have been a few videos about this 'theaters without a/c' thing regarding Sound of Freedom and I have no idea if it was just one place or not

In the comments, have you had tickets for SOF refunded due to lack of a/c or other issues?

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 9, 2023

This seems a bit concerning to me. If true- I can't fathom how/why this happens.

I think the AC breaking is just that, nothing nefarious. It certainly makes for free publicity though.

However, in my community it is constantly sold out and not getting the availability it demands. If you want to buy tickets within a day of seeing it, you have to sit front row. If you want a decent seat you have to look 3 or 4 days out.

I have reached out to the 2 theaters with no response yet. It is crushing Indiana Jones at my 2 theaters but Indy continues to have 2x the capacity everyday. Both theaters have adjusted seats up 10-20% but it is still booked solid.

Cinemark is booked through Thursday with a few seats still available at 8:45AM and 10PM on Wednesday and Thursday.

Go see this film.

Weird take

On The Sound of Freedom, CNN says child sex trafficking is real, but "these films are created out of moral panics... it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings." Do you want more QAnon because this is how you get more QAnon. pic.twitter.com/IsIRWVp1X3

— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 8, 2023

Ooopsie

Bad look CNN https://t.co/K0Vl6dgYkL

— George Colli (@GeorgeColli) July 9, 2023

Gut wrenching! Best film I have ever seen

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Entertainment board thread is back

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3385054

Looks like a lot of dram queen posts.

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Of course. The guy who runs the ET board doesn't like it, so the rest of them fall inline like always.

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Weird take

On The Sound of Freedom, CNN says child sex trafficking is real, but "these films are created out of moral panics... it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings." Do you want more QAnon because this is how you get more QAnon. pic.twitter.com/IsIRWVp1X3

— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 8, 2023

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There are two reasons the media adopted the QAnon attack line.

The lead actor has made QAnon comments in the past thus making it an easy attack line for the left. We all know they will scour someone's history and find something to attack a person over.

The Qtards have adopted this movie big time. Go to any forum where Q is still a big thing, or Twitter, and numerous threads about the movie almost immediately turn into Q crap.

Endless comments about Satanic cults abducting children for human sacrifice (the 1980s want their moral panic back), and my personal favorite Qtardism, children being kidnapped so the elites can extract adrenochrome. Anyone who has any level of understanding knows that adrenochrome is not an elixir of life nor does it have any medical applications although it is still looked at relating to brain chemistry and mental illness. It can also be produced in a lab if it is needed for something so extracting it from children is not necessary nor does the human body produce enough at any given time to actually be usable for anything.

The far right makes it very easy to dismiss stuff that is a serious problem, such as child trafficking, by going so far off the rails that the rest of society dismisses them out of hand. The left doesn't have this problem because their side has the media running interference for it, and when their conspiracies are proven untrue (Russia, Russia, Russia,) they just double down on them, but move on to the next one.

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In my personal opinion, many in Hollywood have a financial interest in seeing this movie fail and it's being portrayed as a crazy conspiracy theory movie as a result.

It's no secret that this summer many big "tentpole" films have lost money or struggled to break even: Indy 5, Flash, Elemental, Transformers 5, Little Mermaid. Many big Hollywood studios are in crisis mode.

Sound of Freedom is produced by a small startup Angel Studios (who also produced The Chosen).

If Sound of Freedom is a success, it will pour more fuel on the fire.

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We are watching The Chosen and it is amazing. The actor playing Christ is by far the best portrayal of any movie I have seen (IMHO).
I will admit my knowledge of scripture is limited and I am agnostic.

Will have to watch Sound of Freedom

I think the movie took a lot of way from the father and his viewpoint of what really happened with his kids. By far one of the most the saddest and also most faithful things I have ever heard of.

Also how Tim Ballard ended up adopting a brother and sister that were trafficked, they didn't mention it or even had pictures at the end of the film. To me that gave me huge respect of Ballard that he put his money where is mouth was and took in kids to raise as his.

OUR does not have a perfect record but has done a ton of good. Glen Beck is been on the background since the beginning (he funded the first raid) and people called him a conspiracy theorist for years without knowing he was battling human trafficking on the front lines with Ballard for years. The swamp fights left and right to make sure the truth doesn't come out. Now the default is conspiracy theorist.

I think if the names off all of the people involved in human trafficking was released it would cause several countries and religions to collapse, maybe it's just me but I'd rather the world burn than to hide the truth and let more people be trafficked. They should all be exposed

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Entertainment board thread is back

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3385054

Looks like a lot of dram queen posts.

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Of course. The guy who runs the ET board doesn't like it, so the rest of them fall inline like always.

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Owning the cons is a higher priority than child trafficking to them.

No doubt of that now. The masks didn't drop…they flew right off.

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Entertainment board thread is back

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3385054

Looks like a lot of dram queen posts.

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Of course. The guy who runs the ET board doesn't like it, so the rest of them fall inline like always.

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Owning the cons is a higher priority than child trafficking to them.

No doubt of that now. The masks didn't drop…they flew right off.

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I think most Americans, left or right, can't make logical arguments for their beliefs. And just want to own the other side.

With that being said the left seems much more into this than the right. George Bush was the devil well before Trump was Hitler.

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Entertainment board thread is back

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3385054

Looks like a lot of dram queen posts.

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Of course. The guy who runs the ET board doesn't like it, so the rest of them fall inline like always.

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Owning the cons is a higher priority than child trafficking to them.

No doubt of that now. The masks didn't drop…they flew right off.

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I think most Americans, left or right, can't make logical arguments for their beliefs. And just want to own the other side.

With that being said the left seems much more into this than the right. George Bush was the devil well before Trump was Hitler.

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Which drives one to ask the question: Who did Libs compare their enemies to before Hitler?

Because we know it wasn't Lenin.

Watched this movie last Saturday in Lubbock. The theater had only one seat left unsold.

She’s mad that child sex trafficking is now a serious felony under California law. https://t.co/9C8Cw2GZHw

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 17, 2023

Liberals are straight up dog *h*t for trying to tear down this movie and its message. Thats including those stupid NPC's on the entertainment board.

What if, Tim Ballard took a LOT of creative license with the facts to make a movie about a really important issue?

Patrick Courielche and and Adriana Cortez of Red Pilled America set out to do a "making of" story on Sound of Freedom and dove into the court documents from the case on which the movie is based. They found a lot of issues with the story that Ballard tells. After they posted on Twitter about the discrepancies they found, Ballard resigned from the board of Operation Underground Railroad that he founded.

Decide for yourself.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvZTczYzk5OGUtNmU2MC00MzJmLTg2MTAtYWUyMTAxNDBjNWIxLzk0OWQ2NDYzLTMzMjctNGIwOS04ZjA2LWFlMjcwMTdjNDg2Zi9iMDU0OTNiNy1hNTc2LTQ5ZTYtYTY3NS1hZTI3MDE3YzQ4ODIvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M/episode/NTE5MWViMmItMDc5YS00Y2Y1LWE1ZmYtYjA0MDAwOWFlYjNl?ep=14

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agracer said:

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Entertainment board thread is back

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3385054

Looks like a lot of dram queen posts.

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Of course. The guy who runs the ET board doesn't like it, so the rest of them fall inline like always.

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Owning the cons is a higher priority than child trafficking to them.

No doubt of that now. The masks didn't drop…they flew right off.

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I think their behavior is from their arrogant beliefs that they know what's best for us. And somehow the "openness " of deviant sexual behavior is what we're lacking in our development to be as enriched as they are in their minds.