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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