Chris Columbus

Christopher Joseph "Chris" Columbus is an American film director, producer and screenwriter and founder of the studio 1492 Productions. He is well known for directing and/or producing films such as Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Rent, I Love You Beth Cooper, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief  and ''Pixels. He also served as a producer for the Harry Potter franchise, and the Night at the Museum ''trilogy.

For Disney, he directed the 1999 Touchstone sci-fi drama Bicentennial Man' and produced the 2011 adaptation of ''The Help'. ''