EXCLUSIVE: Actor Macaulay Culkin has signed with CAA.

One of those actors who will be forever linked to an iconic film, Culkin is known for his role as Kevin McCallister in John Hughes’ holiday classic Home Alone, one of only a handful of films in the last 50 years to have remained at #1 at the box office for more than 10 consecutive weeks. Culkin earned a Golden Globe nomination for his work in the first film and returned for a sequel, with both films continuing to drive major viewing nearly four decades after their release. Per Nielsen, the original Home Alone has been the top-viewed holiday film in three of the last four Decembers across linear and streaming.

In addition to the first two Home Alone films, Culkin worked with Hughes on the beloved comedy Uncle Buck, starring opposite John Candy. His previous feature work also includes Saved! and cult-favorite Party Monster, both of which premiered at Sundance, as well as The Good Son, My Girl, and Disney’s Oscar-nominated animated feature Zootopia 2, where he voiced the role of Cattrick Lynxley.

Culkin has most recently been seen on television in Amazon’s Fallout, earning a Critics Choice Super Awards nomination recognizing a villain role in Season 2. He also starred in Season 10 of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story and has made appearances in Netflix’s Running Point and HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones.

CAA has been on a tear lately with high-profile signings like Barry Keoghan, Alicia Keys and Anthony Ippolito, the buzzy young star of Amazon MGM’s upcoming I Play Rocky. We most recently reported on their talks to sign Call Her Daddy‘s Alex Cooper away from UTA.

Culkin continues to be represented by Emily Gerson Saines at Untitled and Shelter PR.

Bill Rasmussen, a sports visionary who founded ESPN in 1979 with his son Scott as the world’s first 24-hour sports television network, died Tuesday at 93 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Florida.

Shrugging off skeptics, the pioneering Rasmussen – after being fired as communications director of the New England Whalers — acquired space on a communications satellite using a personal credit card. He went door to door to all the major sports leagues, cable operators and potential investors, garnering enough support to launch the Entertainment and Sports Programming network on Sept. 7, 1979. He was the network’s first CEO.

“Bill was a remarkable man — a visionary and an innovator who conceived the idea of a network entirely devoted to sports,” ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a statement. “Quite simply, none of us would be here today if it wasn’t for Bill’s passion and all the hard work and entrepreneurial spirit he put into building ESPN in the late 1970s — key aspects of our company culture that still carry on to this day.”

Rasmussen revealed in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a degenerative disease, in 2014.

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