A bizarre encounter with actor Chevy Chase led then-unknown filmmaker Chris Columbus to walk off 'National Lampoon's ...

"Home Alone" director Chris Columbus almost worked on the 1989 holiday classic "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," but ...

Angus Benfield leads the movie about a man working to live up to the Christmas letter of a rival "Christmas is a time for ...

said he was also supposed to direct 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” — but opted out because of the movie’s star, Chevy Chase. “I was signed on … and then I met Chevy ...

Chris Columbus quit as director of ‘National Lampoon Christmas Vacation’ after meeting with Chevy Chase (Getty Images ... but ...

"Home Alone" director Chris Columbus almost directed another holiday classic, "Christmas Vacation ... which of course would star Chevy Chase, the "Saturday Night Live" breakout who was the ...

Chris Columbus, the director behind 'Home Alone' and 'Gremlins,' shared a not-so-merry holiday recollection involving ...

Director Chris Columbus claims he quit working on “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” after he met with the film’s leading actor, Chevy Chase. In a new interview with Vanity Fair ...

From Clark Griswold to Yukon Cornelius, here's the classic Christmas character that embodies your ... unhinged holiday daddy (holi-daddy?) than Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold in “National ...

and I don’t have to deal with Chevy Chase.’” Home Alone came out the next year, and although it received mixed reviews at the time, it has turned into a Christmas classic, grossing $476.7 ...

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He told Vanity Fair: “I was signed on… and then I met Chevy Chase ... but used when Chase questioned dialogue in a scene with their characters, said the source.