Macaulay Culkin was paid $4.5 million for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, which was the highest salary ever paid to a child star at the time and approximately 45 times his original salary for the first Home Alone film of $100,000. In addition to his base salary for the sequel, Culkin’s contract also negotiated for a percentage of the film’s gross profits and a 15% share of merchandising revenue (specifically from products like the popular Talkboy toy), which significantly increased his total ear