{"id":2077949,"date":"2025-10-08T20:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2077949"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:39:37","slug":"angel-2521-entertainment-acquire-david-ip-set-holiday-film-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/angel-2521-entertainment-acquire-david-ip-set-holiday-film-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel, 2521 Entertainment Acquire &#8216;David&#8217; IP, Set Holiday Film Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Newly public <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/angel-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_angel-studios\" data-tag=\"angel-studios\">Angel Studios<\/a> has partnered with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/2521-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_2521-entertainment\" data-tag=\"2521-entertainment\">2521 Entertainment<\/a> to acquire 100% of the <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/david\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david\" data-tag=\"david\">David<\/a><\/em> animated film and TV franchise from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/slingshot-usa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_slingshot-usa\" data-tag=\"slingshot-usa\">Slingshot USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe partners are forking out $78 million for the IP with Angel\u2019s portion of the investment at about $31 million in cash, its first big move <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/sound-of-freedom-angel-studios-closes-spac-merger-stock-market-1236528120\/\">since merging with a SPAC for a public listing<\/a> on the New York Stock Exchange. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe partners have set a December 19 theatrical release for animated musical <em>David<\/em> \u2014 the biblical shepherd boy who defeats Goliath and inspires his nation. <em>Zero A.D.<\/em>, originally in that slot, has been moved into 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe deal, which settles some outstanding litigation between Angel and Slingshot, also comes with an accompanying five-part animated television series, <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/young-david\/\" id=\"auto-tag_young-david\" data-tag=\"young-david\">Young David<\/a><\/em>, that was highly popular with the Angel Guild. Angel has an unusual business model underpinned in part by dues from its 1.5 million grassroots Angel Guild members, who have a hand in selecting the studio\u2019s projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAngel will explore producing additional episodes of the <em>David<\/em> TV series to extend the  franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAngel co-founder and CEO Neal Harmon hinted at more deals to come. \u201cOwning the David intellectual property is a long-term strategic asset and we anticipate making similar series acquisitions that resonate with the Angel Guild and have performed exceptionally well on our platform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDavid Hunt, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of 2521 Entertainment, said its mission is \u201cto go beyond entertainment and offer families stories that elevate and leave a lasting impression in an otherwise distracted world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAngel and 2521 Entertainment have collaborated on 14 projects to date including <em>King Of Kings<\/em>, <em>The Wingfeather Saga<\/em>, <em>The Last Rodeo<\/em>, box office smash <em>Sound Of Freedom<\/em> and the upcoming <em>Young Washington<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast month, alternative asset manager Trinity Capital announced the commitment of $100 million in growth capital to Angel Studios.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Newly public Angel Studios has partnered with 2521 Entertainment to acquire 100% of the David animated film and TV franchise from Slingshot USA. The partners are forking out $78 million for the IP with Angel\u2019s portion of the investment at about $31 million in cash, its first big move since merging with a SPAC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2077950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[390292,336476,22018,390293,390294],"class_list":["post-2077949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-2521-entertainment","tag-angel-studios","tag-david","tag-slingshot-usa","tag-young-david"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Angel-2521-Entertainment-Acquire-David-IP-Set-Holiday-Film-Release.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077951,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077949\/revisions\/2077951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}