By India McCarty
Angel CEO Neal Harmon says audiences will be “happy” and “moved” by upcoming historical epic YOUNG WASHINGTON.
“There’s a number of great things about this film,” he told Deadline. “It’s a genre — war epic — we haven’t done before. We’ve got Golden Globe winners Kelsey Grammar and Mary-Louise Parker, and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley in the film, which between the genre and those actors, gives us a whole new audience that we can tap into.”
Harmon added that it’s also “a big year” for America — the country’s 250th anniversary — “so it’s going to be front of mind this Fourth of July for people.”
The CEO has the research to back up his assertions about YOUNG WASHINGTON; he shared that it has an Angel Guild score of 90, which is “highly correlated” to its future Rotten Tomato score.
“We know that the audience is going to come out of the films, like 9 out of 10 times, feeling happy with the experience, and moved by the experience,” he said. “That’s always good that you know what the word of mouth will be like on the other side.”
Harmon continued, “The question for us is going to be, as we scale up our pre-sales, how big we can make this opening release. We’re tracking ahead of the majority of our films right now. We were at 109,000 tickets pre-sold at just about a month out, which is excellent. But we learn a lot in these last weeks leading up to the opening. And so, we’re optimistic about the opening.”
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YOUNG WASHINGTON is directed by Wonder Project founder Jon Erwin, who previously shared that this is the movie he has always hoped to make.
“I’ve dreamed of telling the powerful origin story of George Washington for nearly a decade. It’s a story of a true pioneer, which makes it the perfect project to partner on with the pioneers at Angel and their world-class distribution network,” Erwin said in a press release. “YOUNG WASHINGTON isn’t just a film — it’s a celebration of the American spirit and the miracle of the forging of our nation.”
The movie tells the story of our country’s first president, charting his course as he goes from a young soldier, to the Father of a Nation.
“A single misstep thrusts young George Washington into the center of a global conflict, testing his honor, loyalty, and courage,” a synopsis of YOUNG WASHINGTON reads. “As alliances crumble and the frontier erupts into war, he must confront not only his enemies but the man he’s becoming. This is the untold story of Young Washington.”
Along with Grammer, Parker and Kingsley, the movie stars Andy Serkis, Joel Smallbone and William Franklyn-Miller.
YOUNG WASHINGTON premieres July 3, 2026 — just in time to celebrate America’s birthday!
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