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Chris Columbus
Spangler, Pennsylvania, USA
Christopher Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the…
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Christopher Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, including Gremlins, The Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, he made his directorial debut with a teen adventure, Adventures in Babysitting(1987). Columbus gained recognition soon after with the highly successful Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). The comedy Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), starring Robin Williams, was another box-office success for Columbus. He went on to direct several other films throughout the 1990s, which were mostly met with lukewarm reception. However, he found commercial success again by directing the film adaptations of J. K. Rowling's novels Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). In addition to directing, Columbus was a producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), as well as the drama The Help(2011). He also directed the fantasy Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief(2010) and the 3D action comedy Pixels (2015). Columbus is the co-founder of 1492 Pictures, a film production company that has produced some of his films since 1995. More recently, he co-founded another production firm with his daughter in 2014 called Maiden Voyage Pictures. In 2017, he launched ZAG Animation Studios, alongside Michael Barnathan, Haim Saban, and Jeremy Zag. Columbus is also known for his collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he had worked on the film Home Alone and the film series Harry Potter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Columbus, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2027
Gremlins 3
Movie Producer
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2026
Werwulf
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
The President's Cake
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
The Voyage Out
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie Self - Director, Home Alone
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2025
The Thursday Murder Club
Movie Director
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2024
Nosferatu
Movie Producer
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2024
Music by John Williams
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2024
Child Star
Movie Self - Director
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2024
Dìdi (弟弟)
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.
TV show Self
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2023
Chupa
Movie Producer
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2022
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
The Exiles
Movie Executive Producer
- 2022
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2021
Cusp
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
Movie Director
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2020
Yes, God, Yes
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Scoob!
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Reunited Apart
TV show Self
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2019
The Movies That Made Us
TV show Self
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2019
The Lighthouse
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
The Christmas Chronicles
Movie Producer
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2017
I Kill Giants
Movie Producer
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2017
Patti Cake$
Movie Producer
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2017
Menashe
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
It Had to Be You
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Tallulah
Movie Producer
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2016
The Young Messiah
Movie Producer
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2016
The Witch
Movie Executive Producer
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2015
Mediterranea
Movie Producer
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2015
Pixels
Movie Director
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2014
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Movie Producer
- 2014
- 2014
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2014
Little Accidents
Movie Executive Producer
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2013
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
Movie Self
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2012
Applebaum
Movie Director
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2011
The Help
Movie Producer
