Macaulay Culkin was paid $4.5 million, then the biggest ever salary for a child star, as well as 45 times his salary for Home Alone (1990).
Because of the cold temperatures, several cameras froze during production.
After one scene, Macaulay Culkin asked Joe Pesci why he never smiled. Pesci told him to shut up. At the time, Pesci said, "He's pampered a lot by a lot of people, but not me, and I think he likes that."
Director Chris Columbus recalled that the production spent a lot of money on artificial snow for Central Park, and then New York City had a blizzard.