Producer, director and screenwriter James Schamus has been an invaluable presence at Filmmaker from its earliest days. He ...

On the opening day of the BFI Flare film festival in London, Ahn discussed how the "pendulum swing" makes him "incredibly anxious" and how he made a "different" movie out of love for the Ang Lee ...

Yet, independent filmmakers, […] Since our 2019 winter edition, the brilliant Mark Asch has done something here that isn’t ...

An intimate crowd gathered for the screening of Focus Features’ latest pic, “Closed Circuit,” at the Tribeca Grand Hotel Aug. 19. “Thank you to Edward Snowden for helping keep it alive,” Focus ...

Fifteen projects in development have been revealed and the first guests have been confirmed, including James Schamus and ...

James Schamus has been making movies for as long as Ang Lee has been directing them. The two have penned and produced multiple films together, including Eat Drink Man Woman, The Ice Storm, Lust, ...

It’s difficult to get excited about a remake. Even now, after years of watching brave executives hack away at the walls of the content mines with their billion-dollar pickaxes to unearth intellectual ...

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 ...

Seattle Opera announced it will present the world premiere of The Wedding Banquet, a new comic opera by composer Huang Ruo and librettist James Schamus, inspired by Ang Lee’s beloved 1993 film and ...

NBC Universal specialty arm Focus Features has upped James Schamus to CEO, and has promoted its COO Andrew Karpen to Focus prexy. Karpen will also move into the role of co-prexy of Focus’ genre banner ...

Production will begin next spring or summer and the financing and distribution are mobilizing, with CAA Media Finance arranging the financing and repping distribution rights. The film is set in the ...

Andrew Ahn and James Schamus stepped into the spotlight to discuss their reimagining of Ang Lee’s Oscar-nominated 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet and their careers at a “The Makers” event held on ...