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The film went on to hold this record until 1994 when it was taken by Interview with the Vampire. Additionally, it achieved the highest opening weekend for a Chris Columbus film and would hold that record until it was surpassed by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001. It started off better than Home Alone, grossing $100 million in 24 days compared to 33 days for the original.
In fact, only one member of the McCallister clan, Kevin’s older sister Linnie, was played by a different actor. On Christmas morning, a truckload of free gifts arrives at the McCallisters' hotel room, sent from a grateful Mr. Duncan for foiling the robbery. Kevin reconciles with his family, and goes to Central Park to give one of his turtledoves to the pigeon lady, cementing their friendship. Amid the snub, President Trump and first lady Melania tweeted a Christmas video on Wednesday. Donald Trump tweeted "MERRY CHRISTMAS" on Wednesday before retweeting a video message shared by first lady Melania Trump.
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Trump said he was honored to be in ‘Home Alone 2.’ The same day, Canadian TV broadcast the movie without his cameo. For the television version, about twenty minutes of this movie was edited in very small sections, because this movie is exactly two hours long. In order to watch the full version on television, the time slot is extended to two and a half hours. “Home Alone 2” opened to a box office of $31.1 million, which was a new November record. It also made $100 million in 24 days, compared to 33 days for the original “Home Alone.” However, the sequel did not have the legs of the original.
In 2021, Culkin endorsed a petition to edit out Trump's cameo, when he replied to a tweet asking to digitally replace Trump with an older rendition of Culkin. The 1992 comedy film follows Kevin as he’s once again separated from his family on Christmas vacation and ends up in New York City. In one scene, Kevin winds up at the Plaza Hotel, where he asks Trump — who owned the hotel at the time — for directions to the lobby. This scene was cut entirely when CBC aired the movie this holiday season. "As is often the case with feature films adapted for television, "Home Alone 2" was edited for time," CBC spokesperson Chuck Thompson said on Thursday in a statement. Duncan’s Toy Chest is not a real store, but it has a real-life inspiration.
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Home Alone director Chris Columbus has revealed that Donald Trump “bullied” his way into a cameo in the film’s sequel, Lost In New York. "So I said to my editor, 'Leave him in the movie. It's a moment for the audience,'" the director recalled. In November, the Home Alone 2 director Chris Columbus claimed Trump bullied "his way into the movie," because they were shooting on his hotel property. Another fan did an amateur job of editing out Trump in the scene with Culkin and shared it on Twitter. "due to popular request I have removed trump from home alone," the fan wrote alongside the video. Joe Pesci really got burned during one of the action scenes.
While we’re sure that room service at the Plaza is pricey, it’s impressive how he got to $967 worth. Among the items listed are two chocolate cakes, six custard flans, 36 chocolate-covered strawberries, and an entire pastry cart. Despite the violence, women liked the film more than men did. In the beginning of the novelization, a prologue, which ends up being Marv's nightmare in prison, he and Harry sneak away from the cops and return to Kevin's house to seek revenge on Kevin. Kevin bolts into the garage with Marv and Harry in hot pursuit. Harry and Marv end up triggering extra traps that Kevin had set up in the garage.
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The concierge at the Plaza confronts Kevin about his use of Peter's credit card, now reported as stolen; Kevin flees the hotel but is caught by the Wet Bandits. Marv mentions his and Harry's plan to rob the store before Kevin escapes in an encounter with a passerby. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. But fans of the holiday film often wonder if Donald Trump really did appear in the movie's sequel, Lost In New York. Culkin and Trump had a brief interaction in the movie as they were in the New York Plaza Hotel, which The Apprentice star owned from 1988 to 1995.
Then, during a test screening, audiences cheered when he showed up, which saved his appearance. There was a petition asking for Trump to be digitally replaced by current-day Culkin in the film. It got a little traction when Culkin himself endorsed the petition. 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 production staff created another fake old-timey movie for the sequel.
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.
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. Hughes finished writing the film by February 1991, after signing a six-picture deal with 20th Century Fox.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After the police trace Peter's credit card, the family flies immediately to New York. Meanwhile, Kevin goes to his uncle's townhouse, only to find it vacant and undergoing renovations. In Central Park, Kevin encounters and eventually befriends the pigeon lady, who takes him to Carnegie Hall.
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