Macaulay Culkin Awards and Young Artist Awards. At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple. Culkin ranked at number two on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid-Stars" and E!'s list of the "50 Greatest Child Stars". He stopped acting in 1994, making his return in 2003 with a role on the television show "Will and Grace" and in the film "Party Monster" (2003). He wrote an autobiographical book, "Junior", which was published in 2006. In 2013, Culkin co-founded the New York-based, pizza-themed comedy rock band the Pizza Underground, of which he
Home Alone plot similarities to "Home Alone". "3615 code Père Noël" director René Manzor threatened the makers of "Home Alone" with legal action on the grounds of plagiarism, alleging that "Home Alone" was a remake of his film. "3615 code Père Noël" was not released in the United States during its original theatrical run in January 1990 and didn't become widely available there until 2018. The film was followed by a commercially successful sequel in 1992, "", which brings back the first film's cast. The film within a film, "Angels with Filthy Souls", had a sequel in "Home Alone 2", "Angels with