Brokeback Mountain
2006
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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 ...
James Schamus is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who is known for his collaborations with Taiwanese film director Ang Lee, including the films 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
Dec 1, 2023 · 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 and theory.
Nov 26, 2010 · James Schamus of Focus Features makes the most successful “small” movies around. His secret? Spiking the mainstream with just a touch of weird.
Indignation: Directed by James Schamus. With Tijuana Ricks, Sue Dahlman, Jason Jiang, Logan Lerman. In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
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.
