Chris Columbusguest of this episode hollywood reporterof Awards chatter podcast, are behind some of the most popular and successful family movies of all time. Among them, he wrote the 1984 Gremlins and 1985 The Goonieswho directed the 1990s home alone and 1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — both Christmas classics — and 1993’s Mrs Doubtfire and 2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. What is even more surprising and interesting is that now he is 66 years old and eleanor columbushis daughter and partner in Maiden Voyage Productions, an incubator for young filmmakers – Robert Eggers‘Scary new horror movie Nosferatuwhich star Nicholas Holt, Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgård“Focus” will be released on Christmas Day.
During a conversation in our Los Angeles office hollywood reporterColumbus reflects on how a kid from a blue-collar Ohio family ended up working for a company in his twenties Steven Spielberg. He reveals a disastrous meeting Chevy Chase leading to his resignation as director national lampoon’s christmas vacation — for a film now considered one of the greater Christmas classics, home alone. He discusses how his stock dropped a decade after the film became the highest-grossing comedy film of all time, and how he had to convince Warner Bros. and JK Rowling hire him to take the helm harry potter The film then starred him in three main leads. He explains why after the first two Porter After the film, he began to focus more on producing and eventually supported young up-and-coming filmmakers like Eggers, whose earlier films include 2015’s witch and 2019 lighthouseDuring this time, he served as executive producer.
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