FIRST ON FOX — Angel Studios is drawing a line in the sand against Hollywood's approach to entertainment, announcing sweeping new content standards that ban on-screen sex, nudity and certain profanity while promising millions of paying members the power to decide which movies and television shows make the cut.In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Angel Studios co-founder and chief content officer Jeff Harmon said the entertainment industry has increasingly lost touch with the families it once served, prompting his company to establish what it calls "The Angel Promise.""I think Hollywood generally kind of lives in a bubble," Harmon said."These are excellent craftsmen.
They're the best storytellers in the world.Hollywood has built the best storytelling infrastructure in the world."COMEDIAN LEANNE MORGAN CALLS OUT HOLLYWOOD FOR LIVING IN A 'BUBBLE' AND MISJUDGING WHAT AUDIENCES WANT TO SEEBrothers and Angel co-founders Neal Harmon, Jeffrey Harmon, and Jordan Harmon.
(Angel)"But at the same time, they've kind of drifted more and more away from the values-based audience that they used to serve," Harmon said."And with that, in our view, as brothers and as fathers, as a father, Hollywood hasn't been giving me consistently what I need.
Once in a while, you get a good one, but you have to sift through all these things to find your good movies and your good stories."The new initiative, announced Thursday, establishes three core commitments governing Angel's entertainment offerings, namely, audience approval of content, strict standards involving sex and language, and expanded parental controls."We promise there's never going to be nudity, and there'll never be sex on screen," Harmon said, explaining that families participating in the Angel Guild will not have to worry about encountering such material when evaluating potential projects.The company is also drawing a firm boundary around profanity, pledging that Angel's original productions will not misuse God's ...