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Christopher Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, including Gremlins, The Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, he made his directorial debut with a teen adventure, Adventures in Babysitting(1987). Columbus gained recognition soon after with the highly successful Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). The comedy Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), starring Robin Williams, was another box-office success for Columbus. He went on to direct several other films throughout the 1990s, which were mostly met with lukewarm reception. However, he found commercial success again by directing the film adaptations of J. K. Rowling's novels Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). In addition to directing, Columbus was a producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), as well as the drama The Help(2011). He also directed the fantasy Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief(2010) and the 3D action comedy Pixels (2015). Columbus is the co-founder of 1492 Pictures, a film production company that has produced some of his films since 1995. More recently, he co-founded another production firm with his daughter in 2014 called Maiden Voyage Pictures. In 2017, he launched ZAG Animation Studios, alongside Michael Barnathan, Haim Saban, and Jeremy Zag. Columbus is also known for his collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he had worked on the film Home Alone and the film series Harry Potter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Columbus, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Paradoria is 2018 American 3D Computer Animated Musical Comedy Adventure Film produced by Universal Animation Studios for Universal Pictures. 18 feature in Universal Animated Features Canon, it was directed by Steve Samono and Gary Hall from screenplay by Samono, John Hamburg, and Laurie Craig, and story by Samono, Hall, Amy Mcneill, Craig, and Michael Wildshill, and stars voices of Finn Wolfhard, Ariana Grande, Rob Riggle, Bryan Cranston, Kate Micucci, Kristen Schaal, Patrick Stewart, Catherine Keener, with Cheech Marin, and Tommy Chong. Set in fictional world known as Paradoria, film centers on relationship between Cap Wear Boy and Princess who aspire to see outside world. However, when their home is attack by ferocious human eat monster who pursue them to faraway land, they finally must find way back home and stop them from destroy Paradoria, while they now fall in love and spend time together during their adventure.
