James Schamus

Personal Info

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Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-09-07 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

James Schamus

Biography

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. He is currently president of the New York–based production company Symbolic Exchange and is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, where he has taught film history and theory since 1989. Schamus was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a ...

Production

2005

2003

Hulk

as Producer

2003

Hulk

as Story

2003

Hulk

as Screenplay

1994

Eat Drink Man Woman

as Screenplay

2007

Lust, Caution

as Screenplay

1999

Ride with the Devil

as Screenplay

1999

2002

Buffalo Soldiers

as Executive Producer

1993

1993

The Wedding Banquet

as Screenplay

1991

Pushing Hands

as Writer

2009

Taking Woodstock

as Screenplay

2009

Taking Woodstock

as Producer

1994

What Happened Was...

as Executive Producer

2024

We Grown Now

as Executive Producer

1992

Ambition

as Producer

1995

1995

The Brothers McMullen

as Executive Producer

1996

1997

The Ice Storm

as Producer

2016

Indignation

as Screenplay

2016

Indignation

as Director

2002

Auto Focus

as Executive Producer

2022

The King's Daughter

as Screenplay

2007

Lust, Caution

as Executive Producer

1997

Office Killer

as Executive Producer

2016

Junction 48

as Executive Producer

1992

In the Soup

as Associate Producer

1999

Love God

as Executive Producer

2014

2014

1992

Surviving Desire

as Associate Producer

2016

Indignation

as Producer

1996

She's the One

as Producer

2017

Dayveon

as Executive Producer

2017

Casting JonBenet

as Producer

1997

Arresting Gena

as Executive Producer

1999

Lola and Billy the Kid

as Executive Producer

1991

I Was on Mars

as Line Producer

2024

McVeigh

as Executive Producer

2025

The Wedding Banquet

as Screenplay

2025

2016

Alone in Berlin

as Producer

1991

1993

MOTV (My Own TV)

as Coordinating Producer

1997

The Ice Storm

as Screenplay

2018

Furlough

as Executive Producer

1995

Safe

as Executive Producer

2025

The Wedding Banquet

as Original Film Writer

2000

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

as Executive Producer

2020

Driveways

as Producer

2019

The Tomorrow Man

as Producer

2019

Adam

as Producer

1994

Eat Drink Man Woman

as Associate Producer

1997

Wonderland

as Executive Producer

2020

The Assistant

as Producer

1991

Poison

as Executive Producer

2019

Frames

as Director

1991

Pushing Hands

as Executive Producer

2015

Suffragette

as Executive Producer

1997

The Myth of Fingerprints

as Executive Producer

1995

Sense and Sensibility

as Co-Producer

1993

A Psychic Mom

as Coordinating Producer

1998

Happiness

as Executive Producer

-

Fatale

as Producer

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