Esther Zuckerman

That's absolutely right.

Yeah, but it was one of the 10 highest grossing films.

They're still at large, unfortunately.

One of the 10 highest grossing films of all time upon release.

It made $285 million domestic.

No, because they've done other ones.

I think... No, sorry, Esther.

I was not saying that in a dismissive way.

Just that they've done shitty runoff Home Alone stuff in a way that I think maybe because he didn't direct it, the contracts weren't as tight.

Because I know he wouldn't let something like Ferris or... Right.

about to make a fucking Ferris Bueller spinoff at Paramount Plus and it got shut down at the last second.

Thank God.

The fucking Super Bowl ads obviously are horrendous now.

No, it was bad.

There's like the two to three shitty post Macaulay, Home Alone, the sequels, and then the reboot attempt.

And I feel like Macaulay more recently started being like, what if we did like a legitimate one and it was me as the dad?

Right.

I think Catherine O'Hara dying kills that.

I think it kills it really fucking hard.

Right, and people wanting to see the two of them together if it's just him.