Since their career breakout as the screenwriters of the blockbuster computer-animated hit Antz (1998), brothers Paul and Chris 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 success, the Weitz brothers have also accomplished the rare feat of keeping one foot in the indie world while simultaneously becoming the toast of Tinseltown with such efforts as the self-proclaimed "stalker-dramedy" Chuck & Buck (2000).

Born into a solid Hollywood bloodline as the sons of actress Susan Kohner and popular '60s fashion designer John Weitz, as well as the nephew of producer Pancho Kohner, the Weitz brothers began working together by happy coincidence. Following his graduation from Connecticut's Wesleyan with a degree in film, Paul went on to produce a play off-Broadway that he had written at college, Mango Tea. Though brother Chris had studied English literature at Cambridge University and then pursued a career in journalism, it was during the standard, one-year waiting period to join the diplomatic corps that he and Paul forged their lucrative writing partnership — a fateful collaboration that the brothers claim saved them from their mutually unemployable status.…  » Read more