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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 NBCUniversal.
Producer: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. 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 ...
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- 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
May 25, 2021 · James Schamus, Netflix. Netflix debuts “Somos,” the first TV series from James Schamus, on June 30, and unveils a trailer and poster.
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Dec 1, 2023 · As a filmmaker, James Schamus has done it all. Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter ( The Ice Storm, Hulk ), producer ( Brokeback Mountain ), director ( Indignation ), showrunner ( Somos ), and former CEO of Focus Features. In addition to his industry achievements, he’s a professor at the School of the Arts, where he teaches film history ...
Nov 26, 2010 · Nov. 26, 2010. ON A MONDAY evening in September, James Schamus and a dozen students in his graduate seminar in film theory at Columbia University were discussing the dialogues of Plato. Each ...
Apr 24, 2014 · James Schamus’s Top 10. 10. 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. Top ten what?
