15 Unusual Things About The Most Watched Christmas Movie: “Alone At Home” is December 5th on PRO TV | Entertainment, music and movies | Freedom

“Alone at Home” was nominated for two Oscars and two Golden Globes, the film’s budget was $ 18 million, and worldwide revenues exceeded $ 500 million!

For 12 weeks he was a box office leader and broke a record, becoming the most successful comedy ever. On imdb.com, one of the most popular review sites, “Home Alone” has a rating of 7.6! Voted by nearly 500,000 registered users.

1. Daniel Stern, the interpreter of the character Marv, made no noise during the sequence when he captured Kevin, but the 8-year-old put a tarantula in his face. The directors decided that the sound would be added later in the studio, because a scream from the actor would frighten the tarantula.

2. “What are you guys doing, give up or want more?” Is a joke that Kevin has improvised and does not appear in the original script. It was so good that it was used in the second half of the movie, where Kevin says, “Hey, guys, are you beaten up? Did you suffer enough?”

3. Daiana Câmpeanu is the only actress in Romania who starred in “Alone at Home”! Settled in Chicago at the age of 3, she was born in Bucharest, and now works under the name of Diana Rein, having a career in music. In the film, she was Kevin’s cousin, Sondra, and she was 12 at the time of filming.

4. The McCallister family home used in the film is in Winnetka, Illinois. The three-story mansion was sold eight years ago for $ 1.5 million

5. Daniel Stern wore a pair of rubber shoes during the scene where he had to walk up the tar steps, which Kevin had nailed. That’s how he avoided crashing on set.

6. Its role Kevin McCallister was written specifically by director John Hughes for Macaulay Culkin, but the director called in 100 other guys for casting, just to make sure Macaulay is the perfect choice for this character.

7. Kelsey Grammer was supposed to play “Alone at Home” and play the character of Uncle Frank, but she turned it down. Eventually, Gerry Bamman took his place.

8. Actors Robert De Niro and Jon Lovitz turned down the role of the thief Harry, but ultimately John Hughes managed to find a character who would put him perfectly in the role of the film, Joe Pesci.

9. Kevin’s older sister from “Alone at Home” Megan is an Olympic sportswoman! Hillary Wolf was part of the United States National Judo Team, participating in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.

10. The film was shot almost entirely in Chicago, and what is presented as an airport in Paris is, in effect, Chicago’s OHare International Airport.

11. Talkboy recorder from the film there is no product that could be commercialized, but it was created specifically for the shooting of this film. Like the gangster film “Angels of Dirty Souls”, it was made specifically for “Alone at Home”.

12. The glass Christmas decorations, which are stolen by the thief Marv when he enters the window of the McCallister family mansion, are actually made of candy.

13. Joe Pesci wanted Macaulay Culkin to be really afraid of him even during filming. She tried to interact with him as little as possible on set, and Pisces even bit Macaulay in the film, and he still has a scar.

14. The movie poster had many variations, but the last one was the one depicting Macaulay Culkin holding his hands over his face and mimicking a scream. The poster was inspired by Edvard Much’s famous painting “The Scream”.

15. Buzz’s girlfriend, Kevin’s brother, was not really a girl, but the son of the film’s art director. The director made this decision because he didn’t want to upset any teen by using his photo in the film.

PRO TV broadcasts it for the sixteenth time

The first film in the “Alone at Home” series will air on Saturday 5th December at 8pm. According to paginademedia.ro, it is for the sixteenth time, since TV measurements existed, when PRO TV broadcasts the famous Christmas movie, with Macaulay Culkin in the lead role.

Last year, 2.2 million viewers watched the first part of the film, in 2018 2.1 million Romanians were in front of the TV and in 2017 2.2 million Romanians also watched the film. In 2014, the film was seen by 2.7 million people, and in 2013 the figures were similar.

The official trailer of the movie “Alone at Home”

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