{"id":2078709,"date":"2025-10-09T05:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2078709"},"modified":"2025-10-09T05:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:39:06","slug":"angel-studios-2521-entertainment-acquire-david-franchise-set-holiday-release-for-animated-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/angel-studios-2521-entertainment-acquire-david-franchise-set-holiday-release-for-animated-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Studios, 2521 Entertainment Acquire \u2018David\u2019 Franchise, Set Holiday Release For Animated Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Exclusive: Newly public <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0269598\/\">Angel Studios<\/a> has partnered with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0937906\/\">2521 Entertainment<\/a> to acquire 100% of the David animated film and TV franchise from Slingshot USA.<\/p>\n<p>The partners are forking out $78 million for the IP with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0145927\/\">Angel<\/a>\u2019s portion of the investment at about $31 million in cash, its first big move since merging with a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0056131\/\">Spac<\/a> for a public listing on the New York Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The partners have set a December 19 theatrical release for animated musical David \u2014 the biblical shepherd boy who defeats Goliath and inspires his nation. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34491649\/\">Zero A.D.<\/a>, originally in that slot, has been moved into 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which settles some outstanding litigation between Angel and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0631697\/\">Slingshot<\/a>, also comes with an accompanying five-part animated television series, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20885036\/\">Young David<\/a>, 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<\/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 www.imdb.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":2078710,"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":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2078709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Angel-Studios-2521-Entertainment-Acquire-\u2018David-Franchise-Set-Holiday-Release.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078709","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=2078709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078711,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078709\/revisions\/2078711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}