‘Home Alone’ star Daniel Stern detailed his salary dispute over the film’s sequel, saying they ‘couldn’t do the movie without me’
Home Alone star Daniel Stern took a huge gamble asking for a larger salary before filming the movie’s sequel.
“I got a call saying they had redone the shooting schedule, and they would now need me for eight weeks instead of six,” he wrote. “They were asking me to add on 33 percent more shooting time, so I asked if they were going to raise my salary the same amount, and they said they would not.” The movie, which cost 20th Century Fox a reported $18 million to make, grossed nearly $500 million worldwide. When it came time for the sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Stern was prepared to make more money.Initially, the actor was offered $600,000.
Stern got the studio to raise his salary to $800,000 before learning that Pesci was making “somewhere between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 plus gross percentage of the profits,” he wrote.At the time, Stern’s agent advised him to take the low salary, but they parted ways because the actor wanted to make more money. Stern asked for $1.5 million and 2 percent of the gross profits. The studio eventually awarded the salary he asked for but only gave him 1 percent of the gross profits.
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