Hollywood spent decades overlooking middle America to make woke garbage.
Now the industry is hemorrhaging money at a historic rate and facing total collapse.
And Hollywood turns to conservatives to save it from ruin for one surprising reason.
Hollywood's Box Office Bloodbath Exposes Decades of Bad Decisions
The numbers don't lie — Hollywood is in free fall.
October 2025 delivered the worst non-pandemic box office revenue in 27 years, bringing in a pathetic $425 million.¹ Halloween weekend crashed to the lowest ticket sales in over three decades.²
Disney's Snow White bombed spectacularly despite a budget near $300 million, earning just over $200 million.³ Marvel's Captain America: Brave New World stumbled out of the gate with five credited writers and extensive reshoots nobody asked for.⁴ The highly anticipated Mickey 17 is projected to lose Warner Bros. approximately $80 million.⁵
The New York Times declared Hollywood has "fallen to new lows."⁶
Theater attendance remains stuck below pre-pandemic levels, with audiences choosing streaming over whatever woke garbage Hollywood's pushing this week.
Studios chased woke virtue signaling instead of what actually puts customers in seats.
They made movies for Manhattan cocktail parties, not working families in Ohio. Now they're paying the price.
Faith-Based Films Print Money While Hollywood Burns
While Hollywood's big-budget disasters crater, Christian films are crushing it.
The animated feature The King of Kings made $77 million on a budget of just $25 million — a 3-to-1 return that would make any studio executive weep.⁷ The film broke records for faith-based animated releases and earned an A+ CinemaScore.⁸
The Chosen franchise continues dominating. Season 5's theatrical releases brought in $42.4 million, making it the highest-grossing installment of the series that's reached more than 280 million viewers in 175 countries.⁹
Sound of Freedom grossed $250 million globally despite Hollywood gatekeepers trying to bury it.¹⁰ Jesus Revolution became Lionsgate's biggest release in over four years.¹¹ The Best Christmas Pageant Ever dominated the 2024 holiday season while traditional Hollywood Christmas films flopped.
These aren't flukes. Faith-based audiences represent some 2.4 billion Christians globally who Hollywood ignored for decades because the industry thought it was too sophisticated for "flyover country" values.¹²
Shazam Star Drops the Bombshell Hollywood Doesn't Want You to Hear
Now comes Zachary Levi exposing what everyone already suspected — Hollywood didn't give a d*** about faith-based films until they saw dollar signs.
"Prior to 10 years ago, I don't know that anybody would have touched it because I don't think Hollywood really cared until they saw that there was money that could be made in that world," Levi told Fox News Digital.¹³
Read that again. Hollywood didn't care about serving 2.4 billion Christians worldwide. They just didn't care. Not until the spreadsheets forced their hand.
Levi explained that studios only started launching faith-focused divisions after seeing how "effective and lucrative" these films became.
"There's a lot of really faithful people that go to church regularly and want stories that reflect their same faith," he said.¹⁴
The Shazam star is putting his money where his mouth is.
He's starring in Sarah's Oil, produced by Amazon Studios and Kingdom Story Company, about Sarah Rector — a young black girl in early-1900s Oklahoma who became one of America's first black female millionaires at age 11.
But Levi makes clear his personal faith shapes every career decision.
"There are certainly roles and projects that I have chosen to pass on because I just felt like there was no way I could see any kind of redemption in them," he explained.¹⁵
That's called having principles — something Hollywood lost somewhere between superhero movie number 47 and whatever woke disaster they're currently pushing.
The Numbers Prove Hollywood's Stunning Hypocrisy
Hollywood spent decades dismissing faith audiences as backward rubes. Studios greenlit endless reboots and increasingly dark content while insisting that's what audiences wanted.
Then The Passion of the Christ earned $610 million in 2004.¹⁶ Heaven Is For Real made $101 million. War Room earned $73 million. God's Not Dead brought in $64 million.¹⁷
Every single one succeeded because they told stories that resonated with an audience Hollywood pretended didn't exist. And every time, industry executives acted shocked that "those people" actually showed up.
Angel Studios co-founder Jordan Harmon calls The King of Kings "The Passion of the Christ for kids."
He watched multiple children walk out of screenings with tears streaming down their faces after experiencing a "massively fundamental, moving moment."¹⁸
That's what happens when you make content that speaks to people's deepest values instead of lecturing them.
Media analyst Evan Shapiro estimates that from 2023 to 2025, Angel Studios releases averaged $34.7 million per title, outpacing indie rivals like A24.¹⁹
Summer 2025 box office barely matched the dismal $3.67 billion from 2024.²⁰ Theater screens dropped from 41,000 pre-pandemic to about 35,000 now as chains face closures.²¹
Now major studios are scrambling to launch faith-focused divisions.
Sony created Affirm Films. Lionsgate started working with Kingdom Story Company. Even Hollywood powerhouses suddenly discovered middle America exists.
The timing couldn't be more transparent.
After decades of making content for coastal elites, studios are finally forced to deliver what middle America actually wants. They didn't find religion — they found something they worship more than woke virtue signaling: profit margins that keep the lights on.
Zachary Levi nailed it when he said Hollywood only cared once they "saw there was money that could be made." That's Hollywood in a nutshell — principles are negotiable, but box office receipts aren't.
The audience was always there. Hollywood just refused to serve them until financial reality forced their hand.
Now faith-based films are printing money while woke blockbusters bomb, and suddenly everyone in Tinseltown wants to make movies about Jesus.
The faith audience already figured out Hollywood views them as dollar signs, not human beings worthy of respect. They'll take the films — and keep demanding better — but nobody's forgetting who ignored them until the money ran out.
¹ Austin County News Online, "Hollywood Box Office Collapse," November 2025.
² CEO Today Magazine, "Halloween 2025 Box Office Flop Analysis," November 2025.
³ WatchMojo, "Top 10 Biggest Movie Bombs of 2025," December 2025.
⁴ The Direct, "The 9 Major Box Office Flops of 2025," September 2025.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ Outkick, "Hollywood Just Had Its Worst Box Office Run In Decades," November 2025.
⁷ Washington Examiner, "Can Jesus save Hollywood?" December 2025.
⁸ Austin County News Online, "The King of Kings Box Office Success," May 2025.
⁹ Deseret News, "Faith-based entertainment's expanding appeal," April 2025.
¹⁰ Angel Studios, "Angel Studios IPO," September 2025.
¹¹ Newsweek, "Sound of Freedom Reveals Rising Power of Jesus in Hollywood," August 2023.
¹² Deseret News, "Faith-based entertainment's expanding appeal," April 2025.
¹³ Fox News Digital, "Zachary Levi says Hollywood didn't 'really care' about faith-based films," November 2025.
¹⁴ Ibid.
¹⁵ Ibid.
¹⁶ Screen Rant, "The King of Kings Box Office Explained," April 2025.
¹⁷ Ibid.
¹⁸ Variety, "The King of Kings: Inside Angel Studios' Biblical Box Office Success," April 2025.
¹⁹ The Hollywood Reporter, "Angel Studios IPO," September 2025.
²⁰ The Hollywood Reporter, "Summer Box Office 2025 Gets Clobbered," August 2025.
²¹ Awesome TV, "Hollywood Box Office Collapse," November 2025.
