"Home Alone" director Chris Columbus almost worked on the 1989 holiday classic "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," but quit due to actor Chevy Chase.

Only two factors kept a National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation cast member from consideration: the march of time and a petered-out career. On the former front there’s the majority of the 1989 ...

I don't need this. I'd rather not work again," the filmmaker recalled thinking after meeting with the comedy star.

Director Chris Columbus claims he quit working on “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” after he met with the film’s leading actor, Chevy Chase. In a new interview with Vanity Fair ...

Columbus recalled his first meeting with Chase and the "bizarre" thing the actor said to him ... Chase later went to "Christmas Vacation" writer John Hughes and requested the trio meet, according ...

As actors, we don’t know when we come in ... and that was the same case with Christmas Vacation. Have you had a hand in helping her prepare her for that kind of experience?

Angus Benfield leads the movie about a man working to live up to the Christmas letter of a rival "Christmas is a time for family and friends to bond, being together and being loving and grateful for ...

As It Happens14:21National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation hits different in Quebec ... of the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, actors on stage mirror scenes from the film while audience ...

A “bizarre” encounter with actor Chevy Chase led then-unknown filmmaker Chris Columbus to walk off National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The Nosferatu producer recalled the experience ...

The 1989 movie classic "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" — which tells the story ... became the production's commissary where cast and crew ate their meals. The Lodge still has an ...