Jim Carrey Classic Returns to the Big Screen for a 25th Anniversary Encore
Jim Carrey’s 2000 live-action Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas returns to theaters on December 12, 2025, celebrating 25 years just in time for the holidays.
Whoville is headed back to the multiplex. Jim Carrey's live-action Grinch is getting a big-screen encore to mark 25 years, which feels both festive and like a reminder that time moves fast.
The plan
Universal is re-releasing Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas on December 12, 2025, as a 25th anniversary event. Tickets are on sale now, and there is a new trailer out hyping the return if you want to mainline some holiday nostalgia early.
Why this one still hits
Carrey's full-body, rubber-faced take on the Grinch has basically become the definitive live-action version. The film scooped up the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling (no surprise there), and it also landed Academy Award nominations for Production Design and Costume Design. Carrey even picked up a Golden Globe nomination for the role, which tells you how much the performance landed beyond the green fur and grin.
The cast you remember
Alongside Carrey, the movie features Jeffrey Tambor, Taylor Momsen, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, and Molly Shannon. If you grew up with it, this ensemble is baked into your holiday brain chemistry.
The numbers (they're big)
- Global box office: just under $350 million
- Biggest domestic release of 2000 in the U.S.
- Sixth-highest-grossing movie worldwide in 2000
- For years, it was the No. 2 holiday movie ever (behind 1990's Home Alone) until 2018's animated The Grinch leapfrogged it
Long story short: this thing was a juggernaut, and the re-release is lining up to let it do what it does best—fill theaters with families, candy-cane colors, and Jim Carrey zipping around in a yak-hair suit. If that sounds like your kind of December, you know where to be on the 12th.