Tag: 1990s
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How Turning Jim Carrey Into a Green Monster Created a Cinema Icon
There are cinematic decisions that sound brilliant on paper, and then there are decisions that sound like an intervention waiting to happen. In the late 1990s, Universal Pictures decided to spend over $120 million to adapt Dr. Seuss’s beloved 1957 holiday book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! into a live-action mega-blockbuster. The plan? Hire director…