By The FirstThe anti-child trafficking film ‘Sound of Freedom’ continued to dominate at the American box office over the weekend, beating the highly-anticipated sequels to both the Indiana Jones and Mission: Impossible franchises.
From Forbes Magazine:
Sound of Freedom took home the No. 2 spot at the box office this weekend, earning $27 million from Friday to Sunday and over $85 million overall since it opened in theaters on July 4, according to Box Office Mojo.
The seventh Mission: Impossiblemovie earned the No. 1 spot, at $56.2 million.
Last weekend, Sound of Freedom grossed $19.7 million in U.S. theaters and came in third place behind horror film Insidious: The Red Doorand Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny—but Sound of Freedom outpaced both movies this weekend while boosting its Friday-to-Sunday earnings by some $7.3 million week-to-week.
The film is based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former Department of Homeland Security agent, who tries to save children who have been sex trafficked. Ballard reportedly has not claimed to conduct a mission exactly like the one in the film, but the movie ends with a montage from Ballard’s organizations’ real missions in Colombia.
