Sound of Freedom hit $148,972,065 total over the weekend as you can see here:
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl4254237441/
This should have earned it a place in the 2023 Top 10 for In-Year Releases, placing it at #10 ahead of Fast X's $145,960,660, but as you can see here, instead, it's dropped it all the way down to #35 with just $21,987,370.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2023/?grossesOption=totalGrosses
That $21,987,370 figure isn't random. It's the amount the movie had earned up until July 6th, so 25 days worth of ticket sales seem to have vanished.
Could this be a glitch? An honest mistake like the API pulling the wrong data? Anything's possible, but it seems a strange coincidence that it would happen to this specific movie on the very day it would have entered the Top 10.
The pedos might claims lots of tickets, reserved seats but no plan to watch it, so some theaters might show full but end up empty …
Sold out theaters sends a signal that the movie is popular and worth seeing. And it runs up the numbers on the box office charts. Most of the money goes to Angel Studios. Keep paying it forward.
I guess that works too, as they plan to have free on apps later…