Chris Columbus

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q75079: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Pixels, which Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Adventures in Babysitting (1987); Home Alone (1990); Jingle All the Way (1996); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001); Pixels (2015); Harry Potter (first film); Harry Potter (first film, per Rickman's diary). Count them as writer (2 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): 1 line

  1. unmapped (dry run) · through Home Alone (1990), which they directed: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Home Alone (the host's read). Rooney getting beaten up by the house is Hughes's dry run for Home Alone.
    “Hughes has like a dry run for home alone when when Rooney goes to the house.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:48 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Futurama (1999): 1 line

  1. lineage (ripped off) · through Pixels (2015), which they directed: Futurama ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). The premise of Pixels is said to be ripped off from a Futurama episode.
    “It is very much ripped off from Futurama.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:49:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters (1984): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tonal model) · through Pixels (2015), which they directed: Ghostbusters ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
    “Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Pixels (short film): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pixels (2015), which they directed: Pixels (short film) ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). The speaker says the feature grew from a viral short that was a visual effects show reel made by an aspiring VFX artist, who was paid millions in a studio bidding war but had no stake in the movie.
    “I believe the person was like an aspiring visual effects artist and he made it”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:49:29 · Bobby Finger or Lindsey Weber (0.30 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Steven Spielberg ⇒ Chris Columbus (the host's read). The closest Hughes and Spielberg crossed was Spielberg protege Chris Columbus directing Home Alone.
    “Chris Columbus was a Spielberg protégé and he ended up directing Home Alone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:26:38 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (7) everyone in directing

Writing (3) everyone in writing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (cursed project): Chris Columbus → Jingle All the Way. Columbus tested ape skiing and then left to make Jingle All the Way.
    “It's like Columbus drops out to make jingle all the way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:49:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Chris Columbus → Steven Spielberg. The closest Hughes and Spielberg crossed was Spielberg protege Chris Columbus directing Home Alone.
    “Chris Columbus was a Spielberg protégé and he ended up directing Home Alone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:26:38 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → Chris Columbus. Chris Columbus is named with the first film's makers.
    “Chris Columbus.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:13:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (writer then director): Chris Columbus → Gremlins. Columbus wrote Gremlins and The Goonies before directing Adventures in Babysitting.
    “And he wrote The Goonies, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:15:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.