Chris Columbus is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on September 10, 1958 in Pennsylvania, United States. Producer and director who is famous as the producer of Gremlins, The Goonies, and the two first Harry Potter movies. Also, he directed Home Alone films and Mrs. Doubtfire.
He and screenwriter He and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman were schoolmates at New York University. were schoolmates at New York University.
Columbus’ professional career began in the early 1980s, as a writer for the screenplay of Reckless (1984). Columbus later said, “it wasn’t my best work. I intended it to be semi-biographical … and the film was based on my attempts to break free. 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). In late 1981, he eventually received a phone call from Steven Spielberg who expressed an interest buying the script. Upon release, the film was a critical success. Columbus then moved to Los Angeles to work for Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, writing more scripts including The Goonies (1985) and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985).
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. I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.
He married Monica Devereux in 1983. They have four kids together.
