![]() ![]() Upon release, the film was a critical success. In late 1981, he eventually received a phone call from Steven Spielberg, who expressed an interest buying the script. But the director turned it into a clumsy teen sex drama and the experience was so degrading." Dissatisfied, Columbus conceived a new screenplay whilst living in an apartment loft, a comedy-horror titled Gremlins (1984). and the film was based on my attempts to break free. Columbus later said, "it wasn't my best work. Film career 1984–1990: Early success Ĭolumbus' professional career began in the early 1980s, as a writer for the screenplay of Reckless (1984). I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014. In 1980, while at NYU, Columbus directed a short film entitled I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here that was later noticed by Steven Spielberg. Columbus now states that the experience "saved my life" and he was able to acknowledge "the terrifying reality I faced of having to live and work in that factory for the rest of my life in that town if I didn't make it". While on shifts, he secretly worked on a 20-page screenplay, which one of his teachers would later use to help him get an agent. Although he received a scholarship, he forgot to renew it and was forced to take a factory job to pay for schooling. Kennedy High School in Warren, Ohio, he went on to study at New York University's film school at the Tisch School of the Arts, where he was a schoolmate of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Alec Baldwin. As a child, he enjoyed drawing storyboards and began making 8mm films in high school. Columbus is also known for his collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he had worked on the films Home Alone and Harry Potter.Ĭolumbus was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, and raised in Champion, Ohio, the only child born to Mary Irene (née Puskar), a factory worker, and Alex Michael Columbus, an aluminum plant worker and coal miner. In 2017, he launched ZAG Animation Studios, alongside Michael Barnathan, Haim Saban, and Jeremy Zag. More recently, he co-founded another production firm with his daughter in 2014, called Maiden Voyage Pictures. ![]() He also directed the fantasy Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) and the 3D action comedy Pixels (2015).Ĭolumbus is the co-founder of 1492 Pictures, a film production company that has produced some of his films since 1995. ![]() In addition to directing, Columbus was a producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), and the drama The Help (2011). Rowling's novels, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), which are his highest-grossing films to date. However, he found commercial success again for directing the film adaptations of J. He went on to direct several other films throughout the 1990s, which were mostly met with lukewarm reception. Doubtfire (1993), starring Robin Williams, was another box office success for Columbus. Columbus gained recognition soon after with the highly successful Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990) and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, he made his directorial debut with a teen adventure, Adventures in Babysitting (1987). ![]() Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. Chris Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. ![]()
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