Chris Weitz

Christopher John Weitz (born November 30, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his work with his brother Paul on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; the latter earned the Weitz brothers a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his other main works, Weitz directed the film adaptation of the novel The Golden Compass and the film adaptation of New Moon from the series of Twilight books, wrote the screenplay for Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation of Cinderella, and co-wrote Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with Tony Gilroy.

Works

Murderbot

In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet…even though it just wants to binge soap operas.

Release Date: 2025-05-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 10

Afraid

Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can – and will – make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family's way.

Release Date: 2024-08-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 346

If You Were the Last

Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.

Release Date: 2024-02-08

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 26

About My Father

Encouraged by his girlfriend Ellie, Sebastian and his Italian immigrant father, Salvo, spend the 4th of July weekend with her wealthy and exceedingly eccentric family. The gathering soon develops into a culture clash, allowing father and son to discover the true meaning of family.

Release Date: 2023-05-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 322

Pinocchio

A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.

Release Date: 2022-09-07

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1612

Inside The Operation

A behind-the-scenes look at Operation Finale.

Release Date: 2018-12-04

Character: Self

Prospect

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive.

Release Date: 2018-10-02

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 852

Operation Finale

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

Release Date: 2018-08-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1003

Columbus

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.

Release Date: 2017-08-04

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 401

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.

Release Date: 2016-12-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 15392

A Better Life

A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.

Release Date: 2011-06-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 230

The Twilight Saga Soundtracks, Vol 1 : Music Videos and Performances

Muse Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) / Paramore Decode / Death Cab For Cutie Meet Me On The Equinox / Cee-Lo Green What Part Of Forever / Anya Marina Satellite Heart / MUTEMATH Spotlight / Lupe Fiasco Solar Midnite / Editors No Sound But The Wind / The Magic Numbers & Amadou & Mariam All I Believe In / Collective Soul Tremble For My Beloved / Eastern Conference Champions A Million Miles An Hour / Metric Eclipse (All Yours) / Fanfarlo Atlas / Iron & Wine Flightless Bird / Sia My Love / Bon Iver & St. Vincent Roslyn / Sea Wolf The Violet Hour / The Black Ghosts Full Moon / Hurricane Bells Monsters / O.A.R. Love Is Worth The Fall / Debussy Clair De Lune / Verdi La Traviata

Release Date: 2010-12-04

Department: Production

Job: Producer

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.

Release Date: 2009-11-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 9276

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while searching for Norah's drunken friend, Caroline, with help from Nick's band mates. As the night winds down, the two have to figure out what they want from each other.

Release Date: 2008-10-03

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1193

In Good Company

Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.

Release Date: 2004-12-29

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 622

About a Boy

Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.

Release Date: 2002-04-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2228

Husband's Secret

Three women whose lives unexpectedly interconnect after one of them discovers a devastating secret.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

The Creator

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

Release Date: 2023-09-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3215

The Farewell

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Release Date: 2019-07-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1427

Boogeyman Pop

Set over the course of one summer weekend, a bat-wielding, masked killer in a rusted-out black Cadillac weaves in and out of three interlocking stories awash in sex, drugs, punk rock, black magic, and broken homes.

Release Date: 2018-06-21

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

The Mountain Between Us

Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.

Release Date: 2017-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2401

The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'

The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'.

Release Date: 2017-04-04

Character: Self

Vote Count: 7

Cinderella

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.

Release Date: 2015-03-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 7112

Spark: A Burning Man Story

Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenzy. Spark takes a peek behind the curtain with Burning Man organizers and participants, revealing a year of unprecedented challenges and growth.

Release Date: 2013-08-16

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 12

Lone Star

Lone Star is an American drama television series which originally ran on Fox from September 20, 2010 to September 27, 2010, airing Monday nights at 9 pm ET/PT. Fox announced Lone Star's cancellation on September 28, 2010 after two low-rated episodes.

Release Date: 2010-09-20

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 10

New Moon: The Journey Continues

The cast and crew of New Moon examine the process of returning to the now-juggernaut franchise.

Release Date: 2010-03-20

Character: Himself

Heavy Rain

A powerful short documentary inspired by the launch of the genre breaking PlayStation 3 title HEAVY RAIN.   Directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Neil LaBute, the seven minute short was filmed in London, LA & Paris and asks leading luminaries, 'How far would you go to save someone you love?'  

Release Date: 2010-02-23

Vote Count: 1

A Single Man

The life of George Falconer, a British college professor, is reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of his close girl friend Charley, who is struggling with her own questions about life.

Release Date: 2009-12-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1552

The Golden Compass

After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.

Release Date: 2007-12-04

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4573

Living with Lew

A young Hollywood writer/director uses humor and unfailing optimism to fight ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and make his first film.

Release Date: 2007-02-03

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character:

Vote Count: 1

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas

When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.

Release Date: 2006-06-02

Character: Sheldon Schmeckler (voice)

Vote Count: 58

American Dreamz

The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. Recently awakened President Staton even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.

Release Date: 2006-03-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 295

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith are stuck in a huge rut. Unbeknownst to each other, they are both coolly lethal, highly-paid assassins working for rival organisations. When they discover they're each other's next target, their secret lives collide in a spicy, explosive mix of wicked comedy, pent-up passion, nonstop action and high-tech weaponry.

Release Date: 2005-06-07

Character: Martin Coleman

Vote Count: 10507

Cracking Up

Cracking Up is an American television sitcom created by School of Rock writer Mike White, who also served as the series' head writer. It aired on the Fox Network on Monday nights from March to May 2004. The title of the program and the name of the psychiatrist, Dr. Bollas, are comic allusions to Christopher Bollas, a psychoanalyst, and to his book Cracking UP.

Release Date: 2004-03-09

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 1

See This Movie

Two bumbling but determined three-day film school graduates enter the Montreal World Film Festival with a feature film that doesn't exist.

Release Date: 2004-03-03

Character: Panel Discussion Moderator

Vote Count: 5

American Wedding

With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle — prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor party. And Jim's dad is reliable as ever, doling out advice no one wants to hear.

Release Date: 2003-08-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 4114

Off Centre

Off Centre is an American sitcom that aired on The WB network from October 14, 2001 to October 31, 2002. Created by Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Danny Zuker, the series was heavily promoted as "from the guys who brought you American Pie".

Release Date: 2001-10-14

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 13

American Pie 2

After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As it turns out, whether that will happen or not has a lot to do with the girls. Between the wild parties, outrageous revelations and yes, a trip to band camp, they discover that times change and people change, but in the end, it's all about sticking together.

Release Date: 2001-08-10

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 4956

Down to Earth

Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it's like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn - straight to heaven - Lance is sure there's been a mistake. Miraculously, he's right! An angel tells Lance he was taken prematurely but assures him he can be returned to Earth - in the aged body of a ruthless white billionaire. In this improbable reincarnation, Lance begins a hilarious quest to realize his showbiz dream...and, along the way, discovers the person he never imagined he could be. Chris Rock delivers a first-rate performance in this romantic comedy remake of HEAVEN CAN WAIT.

Release Date: 2001-02-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 402

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.

Release Date: 2000-07-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1319

Chuck & Buck

Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation—on Chuck's life.

Release Date: 2000-07-14

Character: Chuck

Vote Count: 62

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy

A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life's disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.

Release Date: 2000-02-01

Character: Director

Vote Count: 88

American Pie

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.

Release Date: 1999-07-09

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Male Voice in Porn Film (voice)

Vote Count: 7755

Antz

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.

Release Date: 1998-10-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4495

Merlin

The origin story of a young Merlin who would go on to become the mentor of the classic literary character King Arthur.

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Bambi

The live-action remake of the 1942 Disney animated classic.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Coapa Heights

A group of Mexican teenagers in the 90's face a series of ordeals in their neighborhood's dynamic of drugs and intrinsic decadent violence

Release Date: 1999-01-01

Department: Crew

Job: Script

Vote Count: 2