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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer Born: September 10, 1958 in Spangler, PA Biography:Screenwriter/Director "Chris Columbus" sold his first movie script for "Jocks" while still a film student at New York University; although heavily rewritten by others for the screen, this piece got Columbus' foot in the big-time door. His breakthrough script for producer "Steven Spielberg" was for "Gremlins", and was allegedly inspired by its writer's dreams of mice at his fingers. The film, which blended warmth and whimsy with violent slapstick and some truly mean-spirited moments, was even more vicious than what was seen onscreen before it was cleaned up by Spielberg, himself. The success of "Gremlins" secured Columbus future writing assignments on such Spielberg projects as "Young Sherlock Holmes" and The Goonies (both 1985). He also developed the concept for a 1986 television cartoon series, Galaxy High School, about an extraterrestrial school populated by weird-looking space aliens. Columbus was... Full Biography
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