{"id":2206342,"date":"2025-12-20T04:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2206342"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:53:02","slug":"three-seinfeld-writers-rewrote-the-grinch-script-but-were-left-out-of-the-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/three-seinfeld-writers-rewrote-the-grinch-script-but-were-left-out-of-the-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Seinfeld Writers Rewrote The Grinch Script – But Were Left Out Of The Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ron Howard<\/a>‘s live-action take on Dr. Seuss<\/a>‘s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/a>” was a holiday season smash when it hit 25 years ago. It grossed $348 million against a budget of $123 million, and received a respectable A- Cinemascore. It was not, however, a hit with critics, who found Jim Carrey<\/a>‘s performance as the title creature unsettling (if not downright horrifying), and its depiction of Whoville oddly off-putting. Sure, the production design and, of course, Rick Baker<\/a>‘s makeup FX<\/a> work on the rubber-faced Carrey were astonishing, but what was enchanting on the page and in animated form just looked wrong when brought to tactile life.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Howard and Universal Studios<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ron Howard‘s live-action take on Dr. Seuss‘s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” was a holiday season smash when it hit 25 years ago. It grossed $348 million against a budget of $123 million, and received a respectable A- Cinemascore. It was not, however, a hit with critics, who found Jim Carrey‘s performance as the title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2206342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Three-Seinfeld-Writers-Rewrote-The-Grinch-Script-But-Were.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206344,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206342\/revisions\/2206344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}