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Aug 1, 2016 · In November of 2014, a little more than a year after he had been fired from his long-time job as the CEO of Focus Features, James Schamus was invited to the German Film Academy to give a...
Feb 26, 2024 · The invitation prompted a number of replies, including an extended exchange between Lemann and James Schamus, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter/producer (Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Storm, Lust, Caution) and Columbia film professor.
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Oct 29, 2017 · “The so-called feature films are killing the business.” Schamus eventually broke character and ended his talk to take questions, but he also reflected on how even he was surprised by how strong...
- Chris O'falt
Oct 4, 2018 · Focus owner Universal fired Schamus during a period of restructuring for the company in 2012, and he chose to avoid the same path for his next move.
Jul 30, 2016 · Not long after being fired in 2013 from his job at Focus — “I think that’s a reasonably accurate way of putting it,” he said — and with both of his children grown and out of the house ...
- mark.olsen@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Oct 9, 2013 · Among the legions of James Schamus loyalists perturbed by his abrupt dismissal Oct. 2 as head of Focus Features is Sean Penn, who scored his second Oscar starring in Milk for the...
Oct 20, 2013 · Schamus’s career as an architect of the smart, accessible movie began in 1991, when he co-founded, with Ted Hope, Good Machine, a production and, with the arrival in 1997 of partner David Linde ...
