He wasn’t feeling holiday cheer. Director Chris Columbus, best known for the “Home Alone,” Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Harry Potter” movies, said he was also supposed to direct 1989’s ...

Director Chris Columbus claims he quit working on “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ... “couldn’t work” with him. “I was signed on…and then I met Chevy Chase,” Columbus ...

A “bizarre” encounter with actor Chevy Chase led then-unknown filmmaker Chris Columbus to walk off National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ... I realized I couldn’t work with the guy, ...

That’s because Columbus was originally working with screenwriter John Hughes on 1989’s “Christmas Vacation ... but I can’t do this movie with Chevy Chase.’ We were in the midst ...

Columbus said he signed onto the film before meeting the actor, and didn’t actually meet Chase ... “It was Chevy and Hughes, and they talked about everything except Christmas Vacation.

"Home Alone" director Chris Columbus almost directed another holiday classic, "Christmas Vacation ... on . . . and then I met Chevy Chase . . . I realized I couldn’t work with the guy." ...

From Home Alone to Harry Potter and Gremlins to The Goonies, Chris Columbus has a laundry list of major film credits as a director, writer or producer. Christmas Vacation could have been part of ...

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the release of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," The Bridge ... and Q&A session with actor Chevy Chase, who played Clark Griswold.

DENVER — Clark Griswold is celebrating the Christmas season in Colorado. Chevy Chase will attend a 35th anniversary screening of "National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation" at Bellco Theatre in ...

and I don’t have to deal with Chevy Chase.” Variety has reached out to Chase’s representatives for comment. After Columbus quit “Christmas Vacation,” director Jeremiah S. Chechik was ...