Inside The Prepper Compound Behind Black Autumn Books, Homestead Shows
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(Photo by Kelly Neish – Bella Day Photography) Homestead is real. And by “Homestead,” I mean the sprawling, largely self-contained and -sustaining compound in the Rocky Mountains that inspired and informed the best-selling post-apocalyptic Black Autumn books and Homestead movie and series. The rest of season one of Homestead the series returns today on niche streaming service Angel, about a year after the original movie debuted in theaters, grossing $20.8 million in box office on a modest production budget. Much of it was filmed in and around Homestead too, though that ridge line with three crosses on it isn’t a real graveyard. Outside the armory area at Homestead (Photo by David Bloom) The movie starring veteran actor Neal McDonough is set after “The Collapse,” and serves as a super-sized first episode for the series’ first season, which resumes today with new episodes, though McDonough’s character is out of commission during the series. Collectively, Angel says the Homestead programs have accumulated one in eight minutes watched on Angel’s streaming platform, 81 million minutes in all, and attracted 253,000 new subscribers to its 1.6 million-member Angel’s Guild. The guild’s involvement is a vital part of Angel’s unusual business model, its members voting to approve each movie acquisition, receiving tickets to each theatrical opening, and even weighing in on Homestead scripts. Jason Ross showing the board-cutting sawmill at Homestead. Note the vintage UK armored vehicle, sans weapons, behind Ross. (Photo by David Bloom) “What really gets me excited as a marketer is hyper, or let’s call it highly, attenuated demographic matches,” Ross said of Angel’s approach. “So we have the ability to pipe content and stories into the perfect fit demographically. And in the case of Angel, I would call it red state, Christian adjacent, family oriented. For me, what’s really, really exciting…
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