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  Chris Weitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chris Weitz (born 1970 in New York, New York) is the producer and director (along with brother Paul Weitz) of American Pie, About a Boy, and other movies.
The Weitz brothers are the sons of actress Susan Kohner.
Chris Weitz graduated in English Literature from the University of Cambridge(Trinity College), England, where he was a classmate of Rachel Weisz.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Weitz   (186 words)

  
 His Dark Materials | BridgeToTheStars.Net
Chris Weitz: Yes, though not the obvious ones.  Lord of the Rings is of course an amazing achievement in terms of logistics, the sheer scope and size of the production, the attention to detail, the immersiveness of the piece; but I think HDM requires different elements in addition.
Chris Weitz: On the surface of it, as a fan of the books I would be terrified if I read that I was going to adapt HDM.  Let me try to put at ease anybody who is of a mind to be convinced at all...
Chris Weitz: Here we are at the heart of the matter.  This will certainly be the issue that will ignite the most controversy amongst fans and amongst the general public.
www.bridgetothestars.net /index.php?p=weitzinterview   (1041 words)

  
 Chris Weitz: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chris Weitz (born 1970 in New York, EHandler: no quick summary.
Paul weitz (born 1966 in new york, new york) is a film director and screenwriter....
American pie is a 1999 teen movie/comedy film written by adam herz and directed by brothers paul and chris weitz....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chris_weitz.htm   (546 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz: There was some pressure to set in the U.S. from American studios, but it seemed perfect for Hugh Grant since in real life he's somewhat in the position of the character in the novel.
Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz: I think that for a lot of men life is a research project for this kind of role.
Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz: I think in a way we were lucky to adapt this as to "High Fidelity." In that movie, the character doesn't change throughout the course of the movie and while that might be realistic, it's also a bit depressing.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/02/entertainment_weitz042502.htm   (2440 words)

  
 Chris Weitz News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chris Weitz has found his way back to New Line Cinema's "The Golden Compass." The multihyphenate, who penned the screenplay and originally was attached to helm the project before stepping down last year, is...
Chris Weitz has signed on to adapt and produce rock journalist Neil Strauss book "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists." The book chronicles Strauss's descent into a global community of...
Chris and Paul Weitz have signed on to produce, with Chris adapting, Neil Strauss' best-selling seduction tome "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists" for Columbia Pictures reports Reuters...
www.topix.net /who/chris-weitz   (181 words)

  
 Chris & Paul Weitz
1966) are the sons of Oscar-nominated actress Susan Kohner and designer/writer John Weitz, and the grandsons of agent/producer Paul Kohner and actress Lupita Tovar.
Meanwhile, Chris earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature at Cambridge University.
They directed Chris Rock in a film they didn’t pen called Down to Earth (2001), but the film was reviled by the majority of critics.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=12034   (363 words)

  
 Chris Weitz Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His uncle Pancho Kohner hired Weitz and his brother to work on the screenplay for the children's film "Madeline", but little of their effort ended in the final film and the brothers' credit was dropped.
The Weitz brothers re-teamed for 1999's teen comedy "American Pie", a broad sex farce with some surprising sensitivity.
While Chris technically was the producer and Paul the director, the brothers reportedly shared responsibilities, including casting of an ensemble of relatively unknown actors that proved an inspired move, showing faith that the audience would respond to and support the realistic frankness of the film without needing the box office draw of a marquee name.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/187861   (519 words)

  
 Chris Weitz @ Filmbug
Their parents are fashion designer/writer John Weitz and former actress Susan Kohner who received an Academy Award nomination for Imitation of Life.
Chris Weitz earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature from Cambridge University.
Chris then decided to join the state department after passing the entrance examinations, but during the year he awaited the start of his tenure he wrote a screenplay with his brother with whom he had always collaborated creatively as a youth.
www.filmbug.com /db/335899   (322 words)

  
 Brothers move past 'Pie' to grown-up film | csmonitor.com
Chris and Paul read the best-selling 1998 book by British novelist Nick Hornby a few years ago, and they loved its combination of humor, cynicism, and a hopeful ending.
On the surface, Chris and Paul might seem an unlikely choice for a mature comedy, given their "American Pie" background.
Chris eventually earned a degree in English from Cambridge University in England and pursued a career in journalism ("with little success," he says).
csmonitor.com /2002/0517/p20s01-alip.html   (1032 words)

  
 His Dark Materials.org - DIRECTOR CHRIS WEITZ WITHDRAWS FROM HIS DARK MATERIALS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We just received word from New Line cinema that Chris Weitz is leaving as director of the His Dark Materials movies.
Weitz emphasized that his exit was not tied to any creative differences regarding the project, and he expressed satisfaction that New Line is planning to move forward with the script he penned for the film.
Chris Weitz apparenty is capable of being very realistic about his own capabilities.
www.hisdarkmaterials.org /article-599--0-0.html   (867 words)

  
 Chris Weitz
While High Fidelity transplanted its London charm to Chicago, this irresistible comedy was directed by Americans Chris and Paul Weitz (American Pie) with its British pedigree intact.
Better yet, Hugh Grant is perfectly cast as Will, a self-absorbed trust-fund slacker who tries to improve his romantic odds by preying on desperate single mothers.
How can a film that highlights intercourse with fruit pies, premature ejaculation broadcasted across the Internet, and the gratuitous "gross-out" shots restore the dignity of a genre that's been encumbered with such heavyweights as...
www.dvd-today.com /actor/Chris-Weitz/dvd.html   (826 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Chris Weitz : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Despite their mainstream success, the Weitz brothers have also accomplished the rare feat of keeping one foot in the indie world while simultaneously becoming the toast of Tinseltown with such efforts as the self-proclaimed "stalker-dramedy" Chuck & Buck (2000).
With its witty contemplations on the value of individuality and appeal to children as well as adults, Antz's success was widespread, though it was no indicator of the substance of the film that would be their defining success, American Pie (1999).
A cheerfully raunchy-yet-warm comedy for which Paul took directing credit with Chris listed as producer, American Pie was a throwback to the carefree teen-sex exploits of the Porky's (1981) days of yore that flew in the face of the more conservative sexual mores of modern society.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/229216/bio.jhtml   (592 words)

  
 Chris Weitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chris Weitz has 1 in-development credit available on IMDbPro.com.
Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Chris Weitz
Find where Chris Weitz is credited alongside another name
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 Weitz out of 'Dark Materials' - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source
"Technical challenges of making such an epic" are the reasons behind director Chris Weitz's departure from New Line's adaptation of "His Dark Materials", as reported yesterday on fansite BridgesTotheStars.net.
Such high regard towards the script provided by Chris Weitz inavertadly confirms a feeling expressed by scribe Tom Stoppard.
The troubled project was also hit with religious censorship, last week, when Chris Weitz revealed some strong concerns from New Line execs, about the direct references to God and the Catholic Church in the original novels.
www.elitestv.com /pub/2004/Dec/EEN41c07430d6e25.html   (406 words)

  
 Chris Weitz Returns To Direct The Golden Compass
Chris Weitz has come back to direct the action-adventure thriller, The Golden Compass for New Line Cinema.
After taking a leave of absense from the project last year, Chris is returning to the first film in the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman.
Chris wrote the screenplay and was originally slated to direct; he was replaced by Anand Tucker (Shopgirl), and according to The Hollywood Reporter, Anand left because of creative differences and reported budget constraints.
www.movieweb.com /news/35/12535.php   (823 words)

  
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 Chris Weitz Leaves His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
Chris Weitz Leaves His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
Chris Weitz has exited New Line Cinema's highly anticipated adaptation of the bestselling Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials, and the studio has launched a search to find his replacement.
We wonder what has really led to this, recently the press have been giving a lot of coverage to the changes Weitz had reportedly made to the story.
movies.monstersandcritics.com /news/article_2976.php   (806 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - About a Boy -- Chris Weitz - DVD - Wide Screen
Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult
London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel, directed and co-written by siblings Chris and Paul Weitz of American Pie fame.
About a Boy concerns the parallel coming-of-age stories of the thirtysomething Will (Hugh Grant), a layabout "serial nice guy" living a posh, carefree lifestyle off his deceased father's fortune; and the preteen Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), a bright but awkward youth who's tired of his mom Fiona's (Toni Collette) depressed, boyfriend-less state.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?wrk=6373171   (840 words)

  
 Chris Weitz Plays "The Game" (February 24th, 2006)
Chris Weitz Plays "The Game" (February 24th, 2006)
Chris and Paul Weitz ("About a Boy", "American Pie") have signed on to produce, with Chris adapting, Neil Strauss' best-selling seduction tome "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists" for Columbia Pictures reports Reuters.
Strauss' first-person story, which originally ran as a Sunday Style article in the New York Times in 2004,is an undercover account of a community of pickup artists of AFC's (average frustrated chumps) trying to bed HB's (hot babes).
www.darkhorizons.com /news06/060224c.php   (159 words)

  
 His Dark Materials.org - Surveys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was a good choice to replace Tom Stoppard with Chris Weitz as the writer of the HDM movies.
Are you going to the new run of the His Dark Materials stage play?
Is Chris Weitz a good choice as the director for His Dark Materials?
www.hisdarkmaterials.org /modules.php?name=Surveys   (212 words)

  
 About a Boy by Nick Hornby, Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz at Smarter.com
About a Boy by Nick Hornby, Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz at Smarter.com
Nick Hornby, Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Will Freeman, a 30-something Londoner, is vaguely in search of a wife, but is simultaneously turned off by the responsibilities that a real life might entail.
www.smarter.com /books-1/product/about_a_boy-30992   (208 words)

  
 Chris Weitz Movies @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Movies on DVD with or related to Chris Weitz.
DVDs on this page are region 2 encoded (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa only).
Click here for region 1 encoded Chris Weitz DVDs (US and Canada).
www.filmbug.com /db/335899-2?country=uk   (89 words)

  
 Chris Weitz
Weitz Checks "Compass" and Returns to Fantasy
La Lohan is all grown up, as she hits theaters as a Manhattanite in Just My Luck, takes cues from Robert Altman in A Prairie Home Companion, and joins the all-star ensemble of Emilio Estevez's Bobby later this year.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Chris Weitz : Main
Since their career breakout as the screenwriters of the blockbuster computer-animation hit Antz (1998), brothers Chris and Paul Weitz shot to the Hollywood A-list as the creators of the film that single-handedly revitalized the teen sex comedy genre: American Pie (1999).
Despite their mainstream success, the Weitz brothers ha...
A heavy dose of solid rock without a hint of mellow.
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 channel4.com/film - Chris Weitz
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Amazon.de: DVD: About a Boy, oder: Der Tag der toten Ente
About a Boy, oder: Der Tag der toten Ente, Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Nick Hornby, Badly Drawn Boy...
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