(World Magazine) Thanks to the success of small-budget indies like God’s Not Dead, big-budget TV miniseries like The Bible, and the return of Old Testament movie epics like Noah and Exodus, much has been reported in the last couple of years about the growing power of the Christian purse in Hollywood. Yet the starkest example of the entertainment industry’s newfound interest in building bridges to churchgoers may be a property that’s been around for decades: VeggieTales.
Now owned by DreamWorks, the faith-inspired anthropomorphic vegetables have gone through multiple incarnations since their debut in direct-to-consumer videos in 1993, including leaps to the big screen and broadcast television. Nov. 26 marks yet another milestone as the characters premiered in a 22-minute, Looney Tunes–style cartoon series on Netflix titled VeggieTales in the House.
