Is Faith-Based Content Taking Over Hollywood?

Published: January 1, 2025 Photo fr om Meriç Dağlı via Unsplash Is Faith-Based Content Taking Over Hollywood?

By Movieguide® Contributor

Hollywood is beginning to realize that viewers want family-friendly and faith-based content.

"THE CHOSEN first premiered seven years ago and Hollywood is now joining in to adapt one of the world's most well-known stories for the big and small screens, with major production companies like Sony, MGM and 21st Century Fox launching their own faith-based studios," ABC reported.

Producer DeVon Franklin isn't surprised by the rise of faith-filled content.

"Storytelling has always been a bedrock of the Christian faith," he explained. "So, it's not a surprise that now storytelling through the means of Hollywood is how we are getting the message of the Gospel out. People are looking to be inspired, to have hope. When you look at the impact of faith-based content, the roots are we are more connected, we are more the same than we are different. The roots are love."

Movieguide® knows wholesome content succeeds.

Movieguide®'s 2023 Report to the Entertainment Industry found that, of the Top 25 movies at the domestic box office, those with very strong Christian, redemptive worldviews averaged $178,156,715, 100% better than those with very strong Romantic, occult, pagan, humanist or false religious worldviews. 

Beyond the worldviews, movies that avoid foul language earned the most money ($257.16 million) on average. With increased obscenities and profanities, the box office earnings steadily declined. 

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Dallas Jenkins, director of THE CHOSEN, told ABC that following God's will is his goal as a creator.

"I genuinely want to be in God's will. That's what I care about most," he said. "Whatever that looks like, I can truly be okay with."

Amazon has partnered with JESUS REVOLUTION director Jon Erwin to bring faith-based stories to their Prime Video subscribers.

"The dream is a values-based brand and ecosystem that is absolutely unafraid of Christianity and the American dream and that tells stories that restore faith in things worth believing in," Erwin explained. "You know, stories that are intentionally designed to pull families back together."

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