{"id":528489,"date":"2026-07-06T21:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/528489\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:19:13","slug":"young-washington-film-gets-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/528489\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Young Washington&#8221; Film Gets A Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/young-washington-film-gets-a-sequel.jpg\" data-caption=\"Angel Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/young-washington-film-gets-a-sequel.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"young-washington-film-gets-a-sequel\"\/><\/a>Angel Studios<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the film pulling in a better-than-expected $20.8 million opening this weekend, Angel Studios has reportedly given the green light to a sequel to Jon Erwin\u2019s historical period drama \u201cYoung Washington\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the best opening for a live-action feature from the faith-based distributor, beating \u201cSound of Freedom\u201d at $19.6 million, and well ahead of the $15 million that was projected going into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Erwin has now taken to social media to announce that a Revolutionary War follow-up titled \u201c1776\u201d is already in the works.<\/p>\n<p>The film reportedly played strong in the Mountain, Midwest, Southcentral, and South regions in the U.S., with the over-55 crowd turning up in droves and granting the film an A CinemaScore.<\/p>\n<p>Critical reviews were decidedly mixed, but audience reviews on aggregate sites are high \u2013 especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/young_washington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> where it sits at 94%.<\/p>\n<p>William Franklyn-Miller, Ben Kingsley, Andy Serkis, Mary-Louise Parker and Kelsey Grammer star in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/young-washington-sequel-1776-box-office-1236974374\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Studios In the wake of the film pulling in a better-than-expected $20.8 million opening this weekend, Angel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63746,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-528489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}