“Sound of Freedom” has earned over $40 million in one week at the box office from those ticket sales.
The Angel Studios film had a goal to draw out 2 million people for its release week as a way to represent the 2 million children who are currently being trafficked. Their goal was exceeded in just four days and has earned the film more than double its budget since its release last week.
The film is based on the life of Tim Ballard, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security agent who left his job because he wanted to do more to rescue children from modern-day slavery.
The film delivers a bold message calling for the freedom of millions of children enslaved in human trafficking, declaring that “God’s children are not for sale.”
The movie is making an impact, not just on movie goers, but also Hollywood. Academy award-winning actors Mira Sorvino and Mel Gibson agree that child trafficking must be eradicated.
In an Instagram video Gibson said, “One of the most disturbing problems in our world today is human trafficking, and particularly the trafficking of children. Our future is our children.”
Sorvino, who plays Tim Ballard‘s wife, Katherine, in “Sound of Freedom,” told the Reel Faith blog, “I first discovered that slavery did not die with the end of legal slavery but is alive and well in the form of this illicit, multi-billion dollar industry.”