In an attempt to boost home marketing sales, New Line Cinema branched out their home video division by acquiring the rights to a series of medium to low budgeted films for direct-to-video releases. The company received buzz from their video sales by using the title font similar to Adventures in Babysitting for Adventures in Spying.
Due to the fact this is the only film project to be released that Hil Covington was apart of, many rumors speculated that Moviestore had hired Chris Columbus to write a script that was far different from his counterpart screenplay Adventures in Babysitting, so they placed in a pseudonym that would throw people off and they would garner their own success off an original story not connected to the other film.