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- Billing Displacement: When ABC Family (now Freeform) showed Home Alone 3, they advertised it like Scarlett Johansson was the star, despite the fact that she was only a minor character in the film and had about 5 to 10 minutes of screen time. To quote one of the trailers, "Scarlett Johansson is taking on the bad guys."
- Box Office Bomb: Budget, $32 million. Box office, $30,882,515 (domestic), $79,082,515 (worldwide).
- B-Team Sequel: Macaulay Culkin quit acting at 15, and Chris Columbus didn't return as director (as he didn't want to work with a new cast). John Williams didn't provide the score either.
- Completely Different Title: It's known as "Maman, je m'occupe des méchants !" (Mom, I take care of the bad guys) in French.
- Creator Killer: While John Hughes had a few more screenwriting credits under his belt after this film (and even then mostly under a pseudonym), its poor reception effectively marked the end of his producing career. His only other credit as a producer came on the following year's Reach the Rock, which actually did get some halfway decent reviews, but failed to earn a wide release.
- The Danza: Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt.
- Refitted for Sequel: The dumbbell trap and the lawnmower trap were both originally in the opening scene of the Home Alone 2 novelization as part of a shared nightmare Harry and Marv are having in prison.
- Sequel Gap: This came out five years after the second film.
- Technology Marches On: Phone technology has come a long way since 1997. Alex would have had much better luck getting the spies arrested with a smartphone, being able to provide the police with pictures of the suspects and their getaway car. Some 911 call centers can even allow dispatchers to receive pictures from smartphones.
- What Could Have Been:
- In the commentary for the first film, Chris Columbus said that he had planned for the third film to be shot right after the second film, and it would have starred Macaulay Culkin as a teenaged version of Kevin; the idea was scrapped because by then, Macaulay Culkin had already discontinued acting.
- According to AMC's Story Notes, Joe Pesci once said that his idea for a third film would be Kevin lost in Hawaii, or a beach resort.
- When Macaulay Culkin declined to reprise his role as Kevin, John Hughes briefly considered writing the screenplay with Harry and Marv targeting Kevin's cousin Fuller, who would be the main character, with Gerry Bamman and Terrie Snell reprising their roles and Fuller's parents Frank and Leslie, respectively, who go on vacation and leave Fuller home alone, to defend himself against Marv and Harry. Then, when Pesci and Stern refused to reprise their roles because they wanted to pursue other projects, Hughes to changed the villains into two former partners-in-crime to Marv and Harry, but when Kieran felt he couldn't follow in his brother's footsteps as the lead, and other cast members of the first two films declined to have any involvement with the sequel, Hughes decided to write an entirely different screenplay with no characters from the first two films.
