EXCLUSIVE: By his own admission, Angel Studios CEO Neal Harmon does not fit the bicoastal profile of the typical film executive.
At the start of an hour-long interview with Deadline at New York’s Greenwich Hotel, the Tribeca venue owned by Robert De Niro, Harmon acknowledged that he was on only the second trip of his life to New York City.
Asked for his impressions, he marveled, “It’s amazing to see so many people coming together and creating something like this city.” The exec is the third of nine Harmon children raised in a Mormon family on an Idaho dairy farm.
Two of his brothers are also execs working at Angel, and another runs one of its episodic series. The family business has hit new heights over the past year, releasing left-field blockbuster Sound of Freedom and selling global TV rights to its Biblical series The Chosen to Lionsgate.
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