Chris Weitz Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Since their career breakout as the screenwriters of the blockbuster computer-animated 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...Read More

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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Cera, Kat Dennings

Synopsis: Michael Cera and Kat Dennings star as two lonesome teens that make a love connection as they prowl the streets of New York looking for their favorite band's secret show in the Sony Pictures teen comedy Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
The Golden Compass

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green

Synopsis: A young girl ventures into a perilous parallel universe to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darkness in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Read More

12/7/07
Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patrick Fugit, Cheryl Hines, Olivia Wilde, Clark Gregg, Matthew Lillard, Fran Kranz, John Cho

Synopsis: Reclusive college freshman Bickford Schmeckler (Patrick Fugit) is a virtual fountain of cool ideas, and he records every single one of them in his prized, steel-bound notebook. When the notebook is stolen by hedonistic sorority girl Sarah (Olivia Wilde) during a toga party and subsequently comes Read More

1/1/07
American Dreamz

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe, Chris Klein

Synopsis: The President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) seems to be having a nervous breakdown after picking up a newspaper for the first time in four years, and when his Chief of Staff (Willem Dafoe) determines to get the Commander in Chief out of his pajamas and back into the spotlight, the stage is Read More

4/21/06
Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Actors: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington

Synopsis: Many married couples have secrets, but one pair of lovebirds discover they've both been living dangerous secret lives in this action thriller laced with comedy. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and play Jane Smith and John Smith, a suburban couple whose marriage has started to go a bit stale after Read More

6/10/05
55 Holly Star

Crew: Executive Producer

2005
In Good Company

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer

Synopsis: A middle-aged man finds a callow twentysomething usurping his professional life and worming his way into his family in this alternately funny and poignant comedy drama. Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is a middle-aged man who has spent 20 years as the head of advertising sales for Sports Read More

12/29/04
American Wedding

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, January Jones, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann William Scott

Synopsis: Jesse Dylan's American Wedding rounds up the characters from the American Pie films for a trip to the altar. Jim (Jason Biggs) proposes to Michelle (Alyson Hannigan). Hoping to make the wedding day as special as possible for his bride, Jim enlists the help of his friends Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) Read More

8/1/03
About a Boy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: 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 Read More

5/17/02
Dylan's Run

Crew: Executive Producer

2002
American Pie 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne, Seann William Scott

Synopsis: The horny teen heroes of American Pie (1999) return for further raunchy antics in this comedy sequel written by the first film's creator, Adam Herz. Returning home following their freshman year of college, old friends Jim (Jason Biggs), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Oz (Chris Klein), Finch (Eddie Read More

8/10/01
Down to Earth

Crew: Director

Actors: Chris Rock, Regina King, Chazz Palminteri, Eugene Levy, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: Comic Chris Rock co-scripted and stars in this remake of 1941's Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which was also remade with Warren Beatty in 1978 as Heaven Can Wait. Comedian Lance Barton (Rock) is struggling to get his career off the ground when he dies in an untimely bus accident; arriving at the Pearly Read More

2/16/01
Off Centre [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eddie Kaye Thomas, Sean Maguire, Lauren Stamile, John Cho, Nelson George

Synopsis: The Anglicized spelling of the TV series title Off Centre would seem to suggest a British influence on the property. Indeed, the series chronicled the adventures of two former Oxford University roommates: English investment banker and self-anointed ladies' man, Euan (Sean Maguire), and his nerdish Read More

2001
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales

Synopsis: Overweight scientific genius Sherman Klump and his extended family are back in this sequel to the 1996 comedy smash The Nutty Professor. Sherman (played once again by Eddie Murphy) has come up with a discovery that ought to make him a multimillionaire: a youth serum that turns back the user's body Read More

7/28/00
Chuck & Buck

Actors: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz

Synopsis: Following his critically acclaimed Star Maps, Miguel Arteta directs this perverse Odd Couple-esque comedy drama. Childhood best buddies Chuck and Buck are reunited after 18 years during the funeral of the latter's mother. Chuck (Chris Weitz who also produced American Pie (1999)) is a button-down Read More

7/14/00
American Pie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne, Seann William Scott

Synopsis: It's said that most American men think about sex once every two or three minutes, but this statistic would seriously underestimate the horniness of Jim (Jason Biggs), a high school senior in suburban Michigan. Jim is thoroughly obsessed with sex, a fact of which his parents become aware when they Read More

7/9/99
Antz

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit worker ant, Z (voice of Woody Allen), who feels trapped by the conformist confines of his totalitarian ant civilization and eventually sets forth in search of Insectopia. Read More

10/2/98
Fantasy Island [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Introduced with a brace of feature-length pilot episodes which aired on January 14, 1977, and January 20, 1978, the weekly, hour-long Aaron Spelling production Fantasy Island began its seven-season ABC run on January 28, 1978. Its basic format was similar to Spelling's The Love Boat: A Read More

1998