Kid versus criminals at Christmas.

Idea Meeting: “Picture the scene. A little kid gets abandoned by his entire family at Christmas.

Bleak, right? Then how about this – the kid’s house gets invaded by burglars, and they spend the majority of the film trying to kill him.

Not dark enough for you? I forgot to mention that the kid fights back and tortures the child killers in increasingly violent ways. We’re targeting the family market. We’ll make $533,800,000.”

Startling fact: Home Alone is 19 places higher than The Matrix in the worldwide box office chart.