Angel Studios Bans On-Screen Sex, Nudity and F-Word in New Pledge

Angel Studios, the faith-friendly company behind “Sound of Freedom” and “The King of Kings,” is putting its new family standards in writing. The studio announced Thursday, according to Fox News, that its future original films and series will carry no on-screen nudity, no sex acts on screen, no F-word and no misuse of God’s name, according to a company press release published on its website.

The policy, which Angel calls “The Angel Promise,” also hands its paying Guild members a veto over what reaches the platform. Every film and series must score at least 70 out of 100 in a Guild vote to be eligible, according to the company’s Angel Promise page, which states that “below 70, a title does not come to Angel. There is no override.”

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Angel co-founder and Chief Content Officer Jeff Harmon told Fox News Digital that the move was aimed at families who feel Hollywood stopped making movies for them. “I think Hollywood generally kind of lives in a bubble,” Harmon said, according to Fox News. “These are excellent craftsmen. They’re the best storytellers in the world.”

“But at the same time, they’ve kind of drifted more and more away from the values-based audience that they used to serve,” Harmon added in the Fox News interview.

Three commitments

According to the Business Wire release, the Angel Promise rests on three commitments. The first is that the Angel Guild always decides, with members voting under a pledge to choose projects that are “true, honest, noble, just, authentic, lovely, admirable, or joyful.”

The second is a set of content standards for all future films and series. The release says there will be no nudity and no sex acts on screen, “ever,” and that Angel will not release original films or series that misuse God’s name, which the company defines as irreverent or profane use. The release says the language standard bars the F-word in any story and bars profanity in titles submitted for children 12 and under.

The third is expanded parental controls. According to the release, Guild members will help set recommended age ratings and plain-language story notes, and new controls in the Angel app will let parents tailor what their children watch.

The company’s Angel Promise page says three of the boundaries are permanent: no nudity on screen, no sex acts on screen and no misuse of God’s name. The page says the language rules are mandatory but not permanent “because the meaning of certain words changes over time.”

‘A veto right’

Harmon framed the audience vote as a first for a major studio. “This is the first time in history that a major Hollywood studio, or top 10 studio in the United States, has come and said, we’re going to let the audience have a veto right,” he told Fox News.

Harmon said the Guild has about 3 million paying members, according to both Fox News and Variety. He also told Fox News that the Guild has paid out nearly $300 million to filmmakers and that Angel was co-founded by four brothers and a cousin who have 34 children between them.

“We promise there’s never going to be nudity, and there’ll never be sex on screen,” Harmon said, according to Variety, which described Angel as positioning itself as a “faith-friendly studio.”

Harmon told Fox News the goal was “stepping out of the Hollywood bubble and stepping into middle America’s shoes.”

Angel says in its release that it trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ANGX. Fox News reported that the studio’s recent films include “David” and “The King of Kings.”

Sources

• Angel press release: Angel announces “The Angel Promise”
• Angel: The Angel Promise
• Fox News: Angel Studios draws line in sand with Hollywood
• Variety: Angel Studios bans sex scenes, F-words and misuse of God’s name
• The Christian Post on X

Reporting by Daily Beltway.