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Macat, who has filmed over 40 movies including “The Nutty Professor,” “Tango and Cash" and “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” said that making “Home Alone” and the fake gangster flick remains his favorite project. Creating the fake film, which was supposed to be set in the 1930s, was made easier by the backdrop of "Home Alone" itself. Since “Home Alone” is set in Chicago, there were many places to find inspiration and sets, Macat said. He used 35mm film and special lighting techniques to give it the classic Hollywood black-and-white look.
Most memorably, Kevin plays it in the background to scare a pizza delivery boy in the film, and finds that he has ‘an entire cheese pizza’ to himself after the delivery guy runs away, thinking there’s a gunfight happening in the McCallister home. "We really wanted to do an homage to the movie , but we really didn't watch it a lot," Macat said. I likely thought that the movie wasn’t real, but I could just have easily thought it was real ’40s film noir. Senta Moses, who played Tracy, recalled in 2020 that one of the most difficult scenes to shoot was the family's run through O'Hare International Airport to catch their flight.
Home Alone fans are shocked to find the gangster movie Kevin watches is FAKE
Marley points out his granddaughter in the choir, and mentions he has never met her since she is the daughter of his estranged son. 103 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$18 millionBox office$476.7 millionHome Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O'Hara. Culkin plays Kevin McCallister, a boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from burglars after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris. Michael Guido was the actor who ended up playing the infamous Snakes in Angels with Filthy Souls, though he was originally cast to play the part of Johnny. Guido said that he was channeling James Cagney and had Chris Columbus laughing and urging him to ham it up some more.
It's even part of the reason many list Home Alone among one of the best Christmas movies of all time. The backstory to the gangster "film," “Angels with Filthy Souls,” which plays in the holiday classic “Home Alone” has finally been told. The fictitious gangster drama, which gave Kevin McCallister and the world the line, “keep the change, ya filthy animal,” would turn 82 this year, if it were a real film, according to "Home Alone" cinematographer Julio Macat.
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But even among its most die-hard fans, many are just now learning that Angels with Filthy Souls isn't real and are shocked by that fact. Now, I'm not saying that the burglars could ever recruit Kevin to a life of crime, but perhaps Home Alone is a statement of the opposite. As annoying his family finds him, Kevin doesn't always show the best moral judgment. He steals Buzz's stash of money early in the film and ruins a pizza dinner for his family. He even unintentionally shop-lifts a toothbrush from a drug store (he was scared of the shoveling neighbor!). But once Kevin overhears the burglars' plans to rob his house, the kid definitely steps up to defend the McCallister turf.
After taking their picture, he lures them to the townhouse where they repeatedly injure themselves in the traps. Kevin evades them, calls the police from a pay phone to alert them to the pair's presence, and flees toward Central Park. Harry and Marv catch him after he slips on ice and prepare to kill him, but the pigeon lady throws a bucket of birdseed onto them, attracting a massive flock of pigeons and incapacitating the pair until the police arrive to arrest them.
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He also resented the early unit calls, since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he preferred to do. After he took the assistant director by the collar one day to complain about this, daily call times were moved back from 7 to 9 a.m. On the other end of the schedule, the crew had limited time to film the many nighttime scenes, since Culkin could not work any later than 10 p.m. Home Alone 2 opened with $31.1 million from 2,222 theaters, averaging $14,008 per site. It broke the short-lived record set one week earlier by Bram Stoker's Dracula for having the largest November opening weekend. The film went on to hold this record until 1994 when it was taken by Interview with the Vampire.
While the film featured the first film's theme song "Somewhere in My Memory", it also contained its own theme entitled "Christmas Star". Two soundtrack albums of the film were released on November 20, 1992, with one featuring Williams' score and the other featuring contemporary Christmas songs featured in the film. Ten years later, a 2-disc Deluxe Edition of the film score soundtrack was released.
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3615 code Père Noël director René Manzor threatened the producers of Home Alone with legal action on the grounds of plagiarism, alleging that Home Alone was a remake of his film. 3615 code Père Noël was not released in the United States during its original theatrical run in January 1990 and did not become widely available there until 2018. By the time the film had run its course in theaters, Home Alone was the third-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, as well as in the United States and Canada behind only Star Wars ($322 million at the time) and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial ($399 million at the time), according to the home video box. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 67.7 million tickets in the United States.
In February 1991, the Los Angeles Times reported that John Hughes was to sign a six-picture deal with 20th Century Fox; among the projects was a sequel to Home Alone. In May 1991, Culkin was paid $4.5 million plus 5 percent of the film's gross to appear in the sequel, compared to $110,000 for the original. Kevin is with them, but he becomes separated from them while carrying Peter's bag and accidentally boards a flight to New York City. Upon arrival, he decides to tour the city, but becomes frightened by a homeless woman tending to pigeons in Central Park. He uses Peter's credit card to check in at the Plaza Hotel, not knowing that the Wet Bandits have also reached the city after escaping from prison.
Neither did a host of Hollywood actors such as Seth Rogen and Chris Evans. Cinematographer Julio Macat recalled that Pesci was more difficult to work with than Culkin. The older actor believed some of the dialogue was not of a quality commensurate with his acting ability.
"But a few years later I realized that I was just about the only actor from the original film who was not invited to be in the sequel because my character was 'dead.' Oh well." A sixth film was released digitally on Disney+ on November 12, 2021, titled Home Sweet Home Alone. Devin Ratray, who played Buzz McCallister in the first two films, reprised his role in the film. Home Alone was initially set to be financed and distributed by Warner Bros. Hughes promised that he could make the movie for less than $10 million, considerably less than most feature film production budgets of that era.
The film is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever and held the record until it was overtaken by The Hangover Part II in 2011. Daniel Stern was cast as Marv, but before shooting started, he was told that the production schedule had been extended from six weeks to eight. He dropped out after as he would not be paid more for the extended schedule. Daniel Roebuck was hired to replace him, but after two days of rehearsal, Columbus felt he was lacking chemistry with Pesci and brought back Stern. Roebuck later said that, although he was upset to be fired from the production, he now believed the experience was "a little blip of unimportance". Chris Farley auditioned for the role of the Santa Claus impersonator, but he failed to impress Columbus.
