The distributor-turned-filmmaker claims the medium is on the way out — but that hasn't stopped him from doing something special with it. “Being dead is not the same thing as not existing — many things ...

James Schamus has long been a huge figure in the world of independent film. In the early 1990's he and Ted Hope founded the production company Good Machine, where they released movies which launched ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in 2011, "Love and Capital" follows the lives of Jenny and Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and the two sisters — Mary and ...

Schamus is one of 30 filmmakers celebrating the 30th anniversary of Strand Releasing by directing a new short film. If you’re going to listen to anyone wax poetic on the history of cinema and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield will star in the film as a young Karl Rove and Lee Atwater in "College Republicans," which topped ...

Studio chief, writer, academic and producer James Schamus delivered the inaugural industry keynote Tuesday evening at the Times BFI London Film Festival. By Stuart Kemp, The Associated Press LONDON — ...

James Schamus was a successful producer of independent films with his company, Good Machine, and then as the CEO of art-house label Focus Features for 13 years. In 2013, he was fired and decided to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Schamus has been through many career stages. For 12 years, he ran Focus Features, bringing the sensibilities of a veteran ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Focus Features CEO James Schamus, best known for producing Ang Lee's Oscar-winning "Brokeback Mountain" and Lee's other ...

You’ve probably seen one of James Schamus’ movies. The former CEO of Focus Features was the screenwriter for The Ice Storm and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and producer for Brokeback Mountain and ...

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Storm) and his producer partner James Schamus are dialing back to 1969 in their current project Taking Woodstock. Based on a true story, ...