Jonah opened on just 940 screens -- less than half of any movie in the top five -- and finished the first three days in the 6th position in the top ten, bringing in $6.2 million!

The buildings of the City of Joppa are made up of brightly colored cookie jars. The Jopponians’ hats are the shape of the buildings.

A typical VeggieTales video usually features about 20 characters, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie has 60 characters, plus “Veggie extras” of up to 700!

Art director, Joe Sapulich, sat in a jail for around 20 minute (he asked to be locked up for ten minutes but was not let out until 20 minutes later) to see how Jonah might have felt in the pirate ship. The last ten minutes of his visit is what we see in the movie.

To make Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, Big Idea used only a third of the staff and a third of the budget normally used in a big studio film, without forfeiting any production values

Khalil, means 'friendly' in Arabic. Khalil's mother was a caterpillar, his father was a worm...but he's okay with that now.

Big Idea searched the United States, Canada and parts of Britain, for the perfect voice of the part-caterpillar, part-worm sidekick to Jonah that turned out to be none other than our own head of story, Tim Hodge!

Some of the film’s zany details come from a somewhat surprising source: historical studies. In reading an academic analysis of the Book of Jonah, Mike Nawrocki learned that the Ninevites are believed to have worshiped several fish deities. That thesis inspired the fishy bent of Nineveh’s set design; fish motifs pop up in everything from the city’s scaly exterior to the guard pea’s oversized headgear.

Over the past few years, Big Idea has expanded to include a number of veteran animation executives, producers and artists from major studios including Disney, DreamWorks and Warner Bros. Story head Tim Hodge joined Big Idea from Walt Disney Feature Animation in Orlando. Also, Big Idea has added many young artists fresh out of school.