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James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, business executive, film historian, professor, and director. He is a frequent collaborator of Ang Lee , the co-founder of the production company Good Machine , and the co-founder and former CEO of motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company Focus Features , a subsidiary of ...
James Schamus is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who is known for his collaborations with Taiwanese film director Ang Lee. He wrote the award winning wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Eat Drink Man Woman, Pushing Hands, The Ice Storm, the cult classic Marvel film Hulk, Taking Woodstock and Lust, Caution.
- January 1, 1
- Producer, Writer, Director
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- James Schamus
James Schamus is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who is known for his collaborations with Taiwanese film director Ang Lee. He wrote the award winning wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Eat Drink Man Woman, Pushing Hands, The Ice Storm, the cult classic Marvel film Hulk, Taking Woodstock and Lust, Caution.
- September 7, 1959
Apr 24, 2014 · James Schamus is the former CEO of Focus Features; the producer of, among other films, Ride with the Devil (1999) and Brokeback Mountain (2005); the screenwriter and producer of The Ice Storm (1997); and a professor of professional practice at Columbia University.
Dec 1, 2023 · James Schamus is a filmmaker, professor and former WGA negotiator. He talks about the film industry as a dream factory, the usefulness of the useless, and the ethical implications of AI for art.
May 25, 2021 · Schamus presents the trailer and key art for his new drama series Somos. premiering June 30. Reading Pulitzer Prize-winner Ginger Thompson’s oral history of a little-known 2011 massacre in the Mexican border town of Allende, and of the role the U.S. government played in triggering it, is an experience at once intimate and vast.
Apr 24, 2014 · James Schamus, a film producer, writer, and professor, shares his personal list of ten films from the Criterion catalog that he loves and admires. His choices range from classics by Renoir, Bergman, Ozu, and De Sica to lesser-known gems by Shepitko, Marker, Akerman, Kiarostami, and De Palma.
