Chris Columbus: “Home Alone” director reveals the final secrets

How do you protect underage stars from falling? Home Alone director Chris Columbus shares what he learned from his experience with Macaulay Culkin – and why there was almost a completely different Harry Potter.

A cold winter day in Berlin. Chris Columbus (no stage name!) looks enthusiastically down Kurfürstendamm from the 15th floor of a luxury hotel. The 66-year-old has shaped Hollywood in the past few decades like few others. He is the director of Home Alone and Home Alone, New York Alone, and Mrs. Doubtfire” with Robin Williams and “Nine Months” with Hugh Grant, as well as the first two “Harry Potter” film adaptations. His “Nosferatu” remake, which he produced, will be released in cinemas on January 2nd.