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Did Disney Own 'Sound of Freedom' Rights?

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The box office surprise of the summer is a movie about child sex trafficking called Sound of Freedom whose release has been years in the making after filming wrapped in 2018.

The film tells the real-life story of the founder of the anti-sex trafficking charity Operation Underground Railroad, Tim Ballard, played by Passion of the Christ star, Jim Caviezel.

Directed and co-written by Alejandro Monteverde, Sound of Freedom shocked everyone when it beat Harrison Ford's last appearance in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The fifth Indiana Jones movie made $11,698,989 on its opening weekend while the Sound of Freedom made almost its entire budget back, $14,242,063.

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