Chris Weitz

Born: November 30, 1969 in New York City, New York, USA

Married to: Mercedes Martinez (2006 – present) (1 child)

[on the box office failure of The Golden Compass]: The Golden Compass became a bad experience because the studio didn’t have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it’s one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie. We had an inferior product, which was trying to avoid anything with any religious content in it, which emasculated the film. I think there were some very unwise decisions that led to its financial ruin here, and in turn, to the destruction of New Line as we knew it.

AMERICAN PIE 1999 dir. Chris Weitz Paul Weitz Stars Jason Biggs Eugene Levy

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