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The production staff created another fake old-timey movie for the sequel. Many of the hotel scenes were actually shot in the Plaza. Macaulay Culkin was paid $4.5 million to star in this movie, the biggest salary ever to an eleven-year-old child actor. The McCallisters are a large family, but they managed to get basically everybody back for the sequel. Of course, they had to make sure the likes of John Heard and Catherine O’Hara were back, but almost every child actor returned as well.
New York’s iconic Plaza Hotel is the place where in the film Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, stays and meets Trump.
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They call her “Annie” and invite her to come down to the station for hot chocolate. Eventually, that scene was cut, and thus the real name of the Pigeon Lady remained unknown. When you make a Christmas movie, you tend to want some snow. The whole “winter wonderland” look is key to Christmas films.
Culkin seems to approve of removing a contentious celebrity cameo from the movie. The Plaza is one of the main settings of the film as Kevin decides to stay there after accidentally going to New York by himself. Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, shared a news story on Twitter Thursday morning that called the edit “pathetic,” and implied it was politically motivated. From the indies sure to be jockeying for Oscars, to a new Halloween and Pinocchio, here are the movies we're most excited about this fall. We take you far past “Monster Mash” with a collection of October-ready tunes by legendary English outfits, classic rockers, iconic composers, and even swing and ska bands. In his new memoir, the actor shares some of the half-baked pitches he heard from people who wanted to reboot The Karate Kid — years before Cobra Kai came along.
Culkin seems to approve of removing a contentious celebrity cameo from the movie.
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. "You guys are the biggest bush league 'journalists' of all time. Editing out Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2. What kind of state-sponsored bulls--t is that? #Defund," one Twitter user wrote to the network.
The movie was created for "Home Alone," and the production team did the same thing for the sequel. If you want to really live like Kevin, you can try requesting the suite he stayed in, 411. When a fan tweeted a version without Trump, Culkin replied, "Bravo." And when another said Trump should be replaced by Culkin's adult self, the actor said, "Sold."
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Culkin's return was confirmed in May, and the rest of the cast was finalized soon after. Principal photography took place between December 1991 and May 1992, and was done on location in Illinois and New York, including at the Rockefeller Center and the original World Trade Center. "Welcome to the liberal government-controlled media," another tweeted to the network. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
In the scene, the young child actor approached Trump and asked for directions to the lobby. The store itself isn't real, but it seems to have been inspired by F.A.O. Schwarz, a similarly huge toy store and tourist attraction in NYC. The film shot some scenes inside the real Plaza Hotel, but there's not actually a pool there. “As is often the case with feature films adapted for television, ‘Home Alone 2’ was edited for time. Later that day, a Canadian TV broadcast of the film was missing his cameo.
Kevin watches as Marv ends up triggering a trap where a running lawnmower falls on his head . As in the novelization of the first film, the McCallisters live in Oak Park, Illinois and the crooks are named as Harry Lime and Marv Murchins. The novel also takes place one year after the events of the first film, but the ages of Kevin and his siblings are given as being two years older than the first film.
Some viewers were happy with the cut, while others slammed the broadcaster for leaving Mr. Trump on the cutting room floor. Columbus told Insider the production dealt with Trump because, at the time of filming Home Alone 2, he owned the Plaza Hotel. The White House previously did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment on the director's comments. Kevin watches and strategically plays scenes from "Angels With Even Filthier Souls" at the Plaza. In "Home Alone," Kevin watches a fictitious black-and-white movie called "Angels With Filthy Souls." It even helps him in one of his tricks to scare off the Wet Bandits. The scene was instead filmed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago.
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. The next morning, the family oversleeps and must rush to the airport. Kevin is with them, but he becomes separated from them while carrying Peter's bag and accidentally boards a flight to New York City.
However, when Canadian broadcaster CBC aired the film in 2019, Trump’s star turn was nowhere to be found. "A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas. They say - especially young kids - they say, 'I just saw you on the movie.' They don't see me on television as they do in the movie. And Donald Trump did make the final cut of the hit film, which featured a scene in the Plaza Hotel which he owned. HOME Alone is one of the most iconic Christmas movies of all time.
In the United States and Canada, it grossed more than The Bodyguard and ranked second. A few times throughout the film, Kevin goes to a massive toy store called Duncan's Toy Chest. As with basically every movie, “Home Alone 2” went through a few drafts and alterations. In one of the production drafts, there is a scene at the end of the movie where a police officer talks to the Pigeon Lady.
The New York business magnate has appeared in TV shows, movies, and even professional wrestling, writes Cinema Blend. Canny Trump, however, wanted more than a fee to use the hotel as a setting. Home Alone 2 came out in 1992 and made the Plaza even more famous thanks to the iconic scene where Kevin meets Trump in the lobby.
Viewers took to social media with mixed criticism days ahead of Christmas as they recognized the American president's noticeable absence from the 1992 film, Comicbook.com reported. Trump's scene was cut from Scent of a Woman, according to star Chris O'Donnell. Trump demands to be written into major productions as a special payment for when films or TV shows are shot on his properties. Home Alone director Chris Columbus says that Donald Trump “bullied” his way into his cameo role in the film’s 1992 sequel, reports Insider.
However the final box office gross was lower with $173.6 million in the United States and Canada and a worldwide total of $359 million, compared to $476 million for the first film. The film was released in the United Kingdom on December 11, 1992, and topped the country's box office that weekend. The film is the third-highest-grossing film released in 1992 behind The Bodyguard and Aladdin.
