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Randy Kornfield. Writer: Eight Legged Freaks. 3rd generation Californian. CSUN film graduate. Worked as consultant at Dreamworks, Warner Bros, United Artists, MGM, 20th Century Fox, and Sony. Sold scripts to and had writing assignments with Disney, 20th Century Fox, Paramount.
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- Randy Kornfield
I've been a studio story analyst, providing notes on dozens of major features for over 20 years, working for Sony, Fox, Dreamworks, MGM and as an independent consultant all over the U.S. and New Zealand.
- Conceiving Jingle
- Hollywood, Minnesota
- Location, Location, Location
- Twin Cities Takeover
- Talkin’ Arnold
- Critical Kryptonite, Box Office Late-Bloomer
- Wait… There’S A Jingle All The Way 2?
- Jingle's Long, Redemptive Legacy
Levant and producer Christopher Columbus both possessed the family-flick Midas touch in the early ’90s. Levant was riding high off 1992’s Beethoven($140 million) and 1994’s live-action The Flintstones($340 million). Columbus, who remains a Hollywood power player today, had just directed 1990’s Home Alone($477 million) and 1993’s Mrs. Doubtfire($441...
Created in 1983, the state-funded Minnesota Film & TV Board exists to promote filmmaking in Minnesota and to lure Hollywood filmmakers here. In the ’70s, eight movies were filmed in Minnesota (Ice Castles, The Heartbreak Kid), according to the board, with that number jumping to 18 by the ’80s (Purple Rain, Rachel River). The board enjoyed an absolu...
Locations—shops in Linden Hills, homes in Edina—received lucrative per-day payments from the studio, allowing an elementary school in Falcon Heights to purchase brand-new computer equipment. At the time, Levant apologized for taking creative liberties by lumping Minneapolis and St. Paul together. Cops sport “Twin City Police” patches; when Arnold’s...
For around five weeks, Jingle All the Waytook over the Twin Cities. Locals, save for one grinchy lawyer below, seemed delighted by the Hollywood invasion. Jinglewould prove to be Phil Hartman’s second-to-last credit, and his performance as Arnold’s smooth-talking, wife-lusting neighborhood foil is tremendous. Fawn Bernhardt, waitress at Zumbro Cafe...
By the mid-’90s, Arnold Schwarzenegger had flexed his comedic muscles with Twins(1988) and Kindergarten Cop(1990). The hulking action-hero icon—who reportedly bagged $20 million for Jingle—left a larger-than-life impression on the state of Minnesota, home to his Planet Hollywood investment inside Mall of America. Randy Kornfield, writer: Arnold’s i...
Critics were not overtaken by the generous Christmas spirit when reviewing Jingle All the Way. The film has a 17% “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 34/100 score at Metacritic; the Star Tribune’s Jeff Strickler, on the other hand, gave it 3.5 stars. Jinglewas never intended to fascinate adult critics, though, at least at first, it fell short b...
Did you know Larry the Cable Guy starred in a—very poorly received—2012 direct-to-DVD sequel to Jingle All the Way? Neither did we! Sinbad, circa ’1719:Yeah man, that movie… it was, I guess, a straight-to-DVD, and it sucked so bad. It sucked SO bad. You gotta at least have some kind of a semblance to the original show. You can't throw a name on it…...
If you've read this far, you know what’s up: Jingle All the Wayoccupies a special place in your heart. Nobody will confuse lines like, “Put that cookie down. NOW!" and, "I'm not a pervert! I just was looking for a Turbo Man doll!" with Shakespeare, but that’s not the point. Jingleexists in a timeless realm of giddiness and goofiness, a deeply nosta...
Randy is probably best known for being responsible for creating the holiday classic Christmas comedy, Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; “Jingle All The Way” and the culty horror parody “Eight-Legged Freaks.”.
Randy Kornfield is known as an Story, Original Story, Teleplay, Writer, and Screenplay. Some of his work includes Jingle All the Way, Eight Legged Freaks, Bloodknot, Sweet Revenge, The Secretary, and Incident at Deception Ridge.
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Adventure Comedy Family. A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one. Director. Brian Levant. Writer. Randy Kornfield. Stars. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
