Angel Studios Bars Sex, Profanity and Misuse of God’s Name in Films
WHO:
Deadline - Jeff Harmon is Angel Studios’ co-founder and chief content officer (CCO).
Screen Rant - The article describes an unnamed major movie studio introducing a policy for its films.
Variety - Angel Studios is introducing the policy; the studio is known for “Sound of Freedom.”
A.V. Club - Angel Studios is described as a faith-friendly independent studio known for “The Sounds Of Freedom,” “Young Washington,” and the upcoming biopic “Hershey.”
A.V. Club - Angel co-founder Jeff Harmon discussed the policy on Fox News. He said Hollywood had “drifted more and more away from the values-based audience that they used to serve.”
WHAT:
Deadline - Angel Studios calls its content-standards initiative “The Angel Promise.”
Deadline - The initiative also expands parental controls and lets paid subscribers choose which films and television shows are made.
Screen Rant - The studio is banning sex scenes, F-words, and use of God’s name in its films.
Variety - Angel Studios’ policy bans on-screen sex, nudity, F-words, and misuse of God’s name.
Variety - Paying Angel Studios members will be able to vote on movies and TV shows; the article says this is intended to ensure that a majority of members [the provided excerpt ends before completing the statement].
A.V. Club - Harmon said Angel promises “there’s never going to be nudity, and there’ll never be sex on screen.”
A.V. Club - Harmon said Angel-originated shows and movies will not include misuse of God’s name, so faith-oriented families can trust that the language will not be present.
WHY:
A.V. Club - Harmon said the policy aims to address what he sees as a gap between Hollywood and middle America, saying: “Our goal was to set out and try to fix this problem of kind of stepping out of the Hollywood bubble and stepping into middle America’s shoes.”
A.V. Club - Harmon said major studios are failing audiences who value faith and family, and that Hollywood “generally kind of lives in a bubble.”
HOW:
A.V. Club - VidAngel filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and was resurrected in 2020.
A.V. Club - Angel’s restriction on misuse of God’s name applies to original content that “comes to Angel first,” including its shows, TV shows, and movies.
A.V. Club - Angel’s predecessor, VidAngel, was launched by Jeff Harmon and his brother Neal as a DVD-selling start-up. For $20, it removed objectionable material from movies and sent edited discs to customers; customers could sell the disc back for $19.
A.V. Club - Studios sued VidAngel over its cracking of DVD and Blu-ray discs to make edits. A court ordered VidAngel to pay $62 million in damages.
A.V. Club - VidAngel later tried an editing service for streaming, filed for bankruptcy, and was resurrected.
(UPDATED October 31, 2026 04:59 UTC)
Angel Studios is launching the Angel Promise, banning sex, nudity, F-words, and misuse of God’s name. Co-founder Jeff Harmon says its standards help faith-oriented families trust the studio’s original content. Paid subscribers will gain expanded parental controls and vote on future productions.
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(UPDATED October 31, 2026 02:02 UTC)
Angel Studios is banning on-screen sex, nudity, F-words, and misuse of God’s name in its original films and shows. Co-founder Jeff Harmon says the rules help faith-oriented families trust the studio’s content. He says Angel aims to serve audiences Hollywood has overlooked.