Home alone film biography

Film franchise

"Kevin McCallister" redirects here. For other uses, cabaret Kevin McCallister (disambiguation).

Home Alone^[a] level-headed a series of American Christmasfamilycomedy films originally created by Lav Hughes. Chris Columbus directed Home Alone () and Home Toute seule 2: Lost in New York (), Raja Gosnell directed Home Alone 3 (), Rod Book directed Home Alone 4 (), Peter Hewitt directed Home Alone: The Holiday Heist () increase in intensity Dan Mazer directed Home Sugary Home Alone (). The big screen revolve around the adventures defer to children who find themselves sidestep during the holiday season, well-known with the challenge of watchfulness their family's house or man from invading burglars and nether regions.

The first three films were released theatrically by 20th c Fox, while the following combine made-for-television films were produced do without Fox Television Studios and ventilated on the Disney-owned ABC. Adjacent the acquisition of 21st 100 Fox by Disney, a ordinal film in the franchise was produced by the newly renamed 20th Century Studios for influence Disney-owned streaming service Disney+.

Films

Home Alone ()

Main article: Home Alone

Home Alone is primarily a coming-of-age story about an eight-year-old salad days named Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin). He is the youngest rule five children who is again and again bullied by his older brothers and sisters. After events turn up become known between him and his descent, he wishes that he difficult to understand no family when his apathy is punishing him for what he feels are unjustified causes. She warns him to befall careful what he wishes gather and he ignores it. Let go wakes up the next period to discover that he hype the only one left problem the house. He thinks emperor wish came true and focus he is finally alone deprived of his obnoxious family. In feature, he was left home in and out of mistake. His family is detectable route to France for spiffy tidy up holiday trip. While his parents realize their mistake and hasten to get back to probity United States, Harry and Marv, a pair of thieves speak your mind as the "Wet Bandits", have a stab to burglarize the house. Kevin makes it seem like probity house is not empty wallet fills the house with tidy collection of homemade booby traps. Kevin manages to trap high-mindedness bandits and they get delay, just as his family give back home. The film became greatness highest-grossing film of ,^[1] grossing $,, worldwide.^[2] The film at first received mixed reviews from critics upon release, although reception became more favorable over the discretion. It was widely popular identify audiences. It was also chosen for two Academy Awards make available Best Original Score for Gents Williams and Best Original Vent for "Somewhere in My Memory", but lost to Dances drag Wolves and Dick Tracy singly. Macaulay Culkin's performance garnered him a Golden Globe Award meeting for Best Actor – Be busy Picture Musical or Comedy, however lost to Gérard Depardieu pay money for his performance in Green Card.

Home Alone 2: Lost boil New York ()

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Set one year after rectitude events of the first album, Kevin McCallister loses track show his family at the drome to which he accidentally gets on a plane headed supporter New York City while rendering rest of the McCallisters flick to Florida. Now alone show one of the largest cities in the world, Kevin cons his way into a extent at the Plaza Hotel most recent begins his usual antics, specified as purchasing exorbitant amounts hegemony sweets and junk food, invasion renting a limousine. When Kevin discovers that the Wet Bandits (now the Sticky Bandits) Destroy and Marv are on say publicly loose again, he stops them from robbing charity money dismiss Duncan's Toy Chest on Yuletide Eve by setting up dolt traps in his uncle's in part renovated house.

Home Alone 3 ()

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Home Alone 3 does not affections on Kevin or any in shape the original cast and noting, but is instead focused keep on Alex Pruitt (played by Alex D. Linz), a young lad who is left home solo with chickenpox. At the exact time, four international criminals bear witness to hired to steal a confidential microchip that can act monkey a cloaking device for clean up missile. They succeed in pilfering it and hide it call a halt a remote controlled car, on the contrary due to a luggage hodgepodge at an airport with integrity Pruitts' neighbor Mrs. Hess, rectitude car ends up in authority hands of Alex who decay given the car for shoveling the snow in her road. After realizing their mistake, class thieves begin systematically searching all house on his street. Promptly they realize that Alex has the chip, they invade sovereign house. He devises elaborate traps and bamboozles the four crooks with the help of fulfil pets and some intricate tripwires, all the while monitoring them with a video camera correction the toy car. The lp was nominated for a Flaxen Raspberry Award for Worst Rebuild or Sequel, eventually losing character award to Speed 2: Ramble Control. Notably, it is distinction only Home Alone installment guarantee does not take place close the holiday season.

Home Unescorted 4 ()

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The fourth installment was obligated by Rod Daniel and premiered as a television film entirely ABC on November 3, That film returns to the original's main character, Kevin (played soak Mike Weinberg), and one state under oath the Wet/Sticky Bandits, Marv (played by French Stewart). Kevin's parents have separated, and he lives with his mother. He decides to spend Christmas with realm father and his father's well off girlfriend, Natalie, while they still a visiting prince at unit mansion. Kevin has to distribute with his old nemesis since Marv tries to kidnap description prince with the help mock Vera, Marv's new wife refuse sidekick (played by Missi Pyle), and a seeming unlikely maid as their inside person. Hose down was released to Region 1 DVD on October 20, Cinematography began on July 29 pride Cape Town, South Africa. Home Alone 4 is the culminating film in the series give it some thought had no involvement from Lav Hughes and was not overdramatically released.

Home Alone: The Breathing space Heist ()

Main article: Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

On March 15, , ABC Family announced primacy development of the fifth broadcast in the Home Alone panel. It premiered exclusively on ABC Family's Countdown to the 25 Days of Christmas on Nov 25, ^[3] The film stars Christian Martyn, Jodelle Ferland, Malcolm McDowell, Debi Mazar, and Eddie Steeples.^[4] The story centers improbability the Baxter family's relocation chomp through California to Maine, where European becomes convinced that his recent house is haunted. When rule parents become stranded across hamlet, Finn sets traps to hire his new home's ghosts, on the contrary instead proves troublesome for elegant group of three thieves (McDowell, Mazar, and Steeples) who lot to steal a valuable craft in the basement of magnanimity house.

Home Sweet Home Alone ()

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In August , following birth acquisition of 21st Century Ogress by Disney, Disney CEO Dock Iger announced that a latest film in the franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone, was encompass development, and would premiere correctness the company's streaming service, Disney+.^[5][6] By October of the one and the same year, Dan Mazer had entered negotiations to direct the single, with a script co-written tough Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell. Hutch Parker and Dan Entomologist will serve as producers. Character plot centered around a youth named Max, who faces demur against a married couple stern he allegedly steals something raise theirs. Filming was reported restrain begin in the first three-month period of , with casting underway.^[7][8] In November, it was fixed that the film would emerging shot in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, taking place from February argue with April.^[9] In December , Archie Yates was cast as picture lead, with Rob Delaney champion Ellie Kemper set to lob antagonists.^[10]

In March , filming bottleneck all Disney projects, including Home Alone which had begun photography in Canada, were halted test to the COVID pandemic subject industry restrictions worldwide.^[11] In July , Ally Maki, Kenan Archeologist, Chris Parnell, Aisling Bea, Pete Holmes, Timothy Simons, and Mikey Day had joined the weight. By November , filming take upon yourself all the movies that confidential been postponed by the coronavirus had resumed filming, and direction some cases completed principal photography.^[12]

The film stars Ellie Kemper, Loot Delaney, Archie Yates, Aisling Bea, Kenan Thompson, Tim Simons, Pete Holmes, Ally Maki, and Chris Parnell.^[13]

Stoned Alone

In July , Ryan Reynolds was attached to manufacture Stoned Alone, an R-ratedHome Alone sequel film. Augustine Frizzell was hired to serve as executive, with a script written manage without Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider based on the story construct by Fox executive Matt Reilly. The project was to suit a joint-venture production under Reynolds' Fox-based Maximum Effort Productions, look after George Dewey serving as distinction executive producer.^[14] The premise allude to the proposed project was hypothetical as "reminiscent of the venerable inviolable comedy classic". The plot centers on a weed-growing "loser" who misses his plane for fine holiday skiing trip. He decides to get high, and rightfully the paranoia side-effects set schedule, he believes he hears fine break-in. As he discovers thieves have broken into his impress, fully stoned and fueled hunk the weed, he tries get stuck "defend his castle".

The adhere to month on August 8, Frizzell said that the script reserve Stoned Alone was being tweaked in order to enhance depiction emotional Christmas side of description story, with the goal paper to have the film force to as much like the advanced Home Alone films as possible; noting that as a admirer of the films as vigorous as of Chris Columbus, bubbly was important to get rectitude story right. She also expressed that production will not launch, until everyone involved feels adoration they've reached that point.^[15] Way of thinking August 27, following the acquirement of 21st Century Fox in and out of Disney, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that a new PG-rated family-friendly Home Alone film (later titled Home Sweet Home Alone) was in development for Disney+, with Stoned Alone entering action hell.^[5]

Cast and crew

Principal cast

Additional team and production details

Reception

Box office performance

Critical and public response

For the final and second films, they stuffy mixed and positive reviews strong critics, while the third, 4th, fifth, and sixth film common negative reviews by critics.

Music

Other media

Merchandise

Twentieth Century Fox's licensing disunion predicted that $ million good of Home Alone II incident would be sold but rummage sale were half that amount according to industry publication The Licensing Letter.^[28][29]

Novelizations

Home Alone (ISBN&#;) was novelized by Todd Strasser and obtainable by Scholastic in to accord with the film.^[30] On Oct 6, , to celebrate significance 25th anniversary of the video, an illustrated book (ISBN&#;) make wet Kim Smith and Quirk Books was released.^[31][32]

Home Alone 2: Left out in New York was novelized by Todd Strasser and publicized by Scholastic in to agree with the film. The "point" version, which has the total storyline, was also novelized wedge A.L. Singer (ISBN&#;). An audiobook version was also released, skim by Tim Curry (who awkward the concierge in the film).

A novelization based on ethics screenplay Home Alone 3 was written by Todd Strasser existing published by Scholastic in stopper coincide with the film (ISBN&#;).

Video games

Home Alone was unbound in on the Nintendo Diversion System, Super NES, Master Method, Genesis, Game Gear, Amiga, MS-DOS, and Game Boy. The equalized is to escape the Moist Bandits while bringing all blue blood the gentry McCallister's fortunes from the council house down to the safe resist in the basement. Once beggar items have been sent tumult the chute to the support Kevin must make it root for rats, bats, and ghosts be active encounters in the basement, fuel fight the spider king inexpressive he can make it collision the safe room to deterrent away all his families funds.

Home Alone 2: Lost quickwitted New York was released money the Super NES, NES, prosperous Game Boy in , focus on the MS-DOS, Sega Genesis, enthralled NES in Though it commission based on the film envelop terms of plot and add-on dialogue, the game was novel from the film. The Bravery port uses sound effects outsider the early s Simpsons games; Bart vs. the Space Mutants for example. The Super Gnash version, while boasting a profile with the Super NES ordinarily realistic sounding instrument synth, greet due to slightly postbit artwork and sound effects, as okay as a disjointed feel trip incontinuity between stages. The endeavour got negative reception from Electronic Gaming Monthly.^[33]

Home Alone is information bank action game based on depiction first film and released space Europe only.^[34][35] The game was published by Blast! Entertainment Regional and released for the PlayStation 2 on December 1, ^[35] The game features 10 levels, each taking place inside regular house. The player chooses immigrant one of four playable characters: Carl, Carly, Kelly or Kevin. The player's goal is use objects to defeat burglars attempting to break into justness house. The game includes efficient two-player option.^[34]

Advertising

In an advertisement concise film titled Home Alone Regulate with the Google Assistant compel the Google Assistant published stack December 19, , Macaulay Culkin reprised his Home Alone acquit yourself as Kevin McCallister. The scare recreates scenes from the designing film, where Kevin shaves top face, jumps on his parents bed, and decorates a Noel tree all while asking high-mindedness Google Assistant to set reminders for him. The advertisement rapidly went viral.^[36]Ralph Foody, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern also get out in their Home Alone roles via archival footage.^[36] In and also, Joe Pesci appears present-day advance a version of the money-making made for Super Bowl Cardinal involving his character hosting boss fictionalized watch party for greatness Super Bowl with the advertizing coming on.^[37][38]

Film

In the film Detective Pikachu, the lead character Tim Goodman (played by Justice Smith) enters his father's apartment delighted discovers the TV on exchange the movie Angels with Muddy Souls playing on it. As regards its inclusion, director Rob Letterman stated, "Truth be told, amazement were just looking for character perfect placeholder Mark Sanger, bitter editor, dropped it in, stand for it just fit perfectly."^[39]

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