{"id":29870,"date":"2023-11-09T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=29870"},"modified":"2023-11-09T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:03:16","slug":"angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Angel Studios&#8217; &#8216;After Death&#8217; Soars into Top 5 Opening at the Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29876\" style=\"width: 711px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/after-death-documentary-credit-angel-studios-youtube.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29876\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/after-death-documentary-credit-angel-studios-youtube.png\" alt=\"after death\" width=\"711\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Studios\/YouTube.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The latest film from Angel Studios impressed audiences in its first weekend, soaring at the box office and finishing in the top five as it enjoyed one of the most successful openings in documentary film history. \u201cAfter Death\u201d finished in fourth place at the box office with a gross of $5,051,950, making it the 12th-most successful documentary movie of all time on an opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was ahead of Disney documentaries like \u201cBorn in China,\u201d \u201cBears,\u201d \u201cPenguins,\u201d and \u201cMonkey Kingdom,\u201d according to The Numbers. It also topped the opening grosses of such well-known titles as \u201cTupac Resurrection,\u201d \u201cReligulous,\u201d and \u201cExpelled: No Intelligence Allowed.\u201d \u201cAfter Death\u201d explores stories of near-death experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Purdie, executive vice president of global theatrical distribution for Angel Studios, said, \u201cThis weekend, the success of\u00a0\u201cAfter Death\u201d\u00a0underscores cinema\u2019s vital role as a powerful communal space for pondering profound questions, igniting the deepest yearnings, and fostering collective hope.\u201d The film also earned an A- CinemaScore grade from moviegoers. Angel Studios is the same company that released the blockbuster hit\u00a0\u201cSound of Freedom\u201d this summer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HOSmGMHs7ps?si=1IOmsb1Cdi5HXwhQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film includes testimonies from doctors and experts as well as from individuals who say they briefly visited heaven when their heart stopped beating due to a tragic accident or medical condition. One of those is Don Piper, a minister who was involved in a horrific car crash in 1989 and says he visited heaven.\u00a0He called the film evangelistic. Piper told <em>Christian Headlines, <\/em>\u201cThis movie is the get-people-into-heaven movie. At the very least, it\u2019s a conversation starter. But at the very most, it\u2019s somebody\u2019s first step into the glory of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael Sabom, a cardiologist and author of multiple books on the subject, says in the film he was skeptical of near-death experiences until he began studying them. He became convinced that they may be real.\u00a0 Some people, he says in the film, enjoy heaven so much that they \u201cdon\u2019t want to go back\u201d to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest film from Angel Studios impressed audiences in its first weekend, soaring at the box office and finishing in the top five as it enjoyed one of the most successful openings in documentary film history. \u201cAfter Death\u201d finished in fourth place at the box office with a gross of $5,051,950, making it the 12th-most&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":29876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3388,3],"tags":[5957,5624,5960],"class_list":["post-29870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-faith-based","category-movies","tag-after-death","tag-angel-studios","tag-near-death-experiences"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Angel Studios&#039; &#039;After Death&#039; Soars into Top 5 Opening at the Box Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;After Death,&quot; the latest film from Angel Studios, impressed audiences in its first weekend, soaring into a top five box office opening.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Angel Studios&#039; &#039;After Death&#039; Soars into Top 5 Opening at the Box Office\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;After Death,&quot; the latest film from Angel Studios, impressed audiences in its first weekend, soaring into a top five box office opening.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Idol Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-09T16:03:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/after-death-documentary-credit-angel-studios-youtube.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"711\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"442\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lauren McKeithen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Angel Studios' 'After Death' Soars into Top 5 Opening at the Box Office","description":"\"After Death,\" the latest film from Angel Studios, impressed audiences in its first weekend, soaring into a top five box office opening.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Angel Studios' 'After Death' Soars into Top 5 Opening at the Box Office","og_description":"\"After Death,\" the latest film from Angel Studios, impressed audiences in its first weekend, soaring into a top five box office opening.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html","og_site_name":"Idol Chatter","article_published_time":"2023-11-09T16:03:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":711,"height":442,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/after-death-documentary-credit-angel-studios-youtube.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Lauren McKeithen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html","name":"Angel Studios' 'After Death' Soars into Top 5 Opening at the Box Office","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/after-death-documentary-credit-angel-studios-youtube.png","datePublished":"2023-11-09T16:03:16+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-09T16:03:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/67183b7ec4ffc995620174c78f9cc68a"},"description":"\"After Death,\" the latest film from Angel Studios, impressed audiences in its first weekend, soaring into a top five box office opening.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/after-death-documentary-credit-angel-studios-youtube.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/after-death-documentary-credit-angel-studios-youtube.png","width":711,"height":442,"caption":"Angel Studios\/YouTube.com"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/angel-studios-after-death-soars-into-top-5-opening-at-the-box-office.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Angel Studios&#8217; &#8216;After Death&#8217; Soars into Top 5 Opening at the Box Office"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/","name":"Idol Chatter","description":"Beliefnet Entertainment blog, TV blog, Movie blog, Religion in entertainment blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/67183b7ec4ffc995620174c78f9cc68a","name":"lmckeithen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/113\/113fb9cc9b1ebdaacbc1f17d658ad52ex96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/113\/113fb9cc9b1ebdaacbc1f17d658ad52ex96.jpg","caption":"lmckeithen"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/author\/lmckeithen"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29882,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29870\/revisions\/29882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}