James Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter for The ice storm and producer of Brokeback Mountain , and former CEO of Focus Features, the film production, financing, and global distribution company whose films include, among others milk , Eternal sunshine of the flawless mind , The pianist , Coraline , and Der Dallas Buyers Club . He is the author of Carl Theodor Dreyerser Gertrud: The moving word, published by the University of Washington Press. He recently performed on the short documentary This film about money . He earned his BA, MA and PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
Announced in January , Netflix will open its Latin America office at the end of this year, in 2021. Netflix will invest approximately $ 300 million in over 50 local and global original productions that will be filmed in Mexico and premiered in 2021. If we add the $ 200 million the company invested in 2020, Netflix Mexico will have spent half a billion dollars by the end of 2021 in two years, Ramos confirmed. Netflix also expects to fully open its Latin American headquarters in Mexico with over 100 employees by the end of the year in 2021.
The company has moved beyond the drama series to deal with comedy, adventure, documentary, action, and unwritten food. Comedy, whether scripted or stand-up, is a good thermostat for gauging what's popular out there, Ramos said. Mexico's rich tradition of telenovelas also boasts an abundance of local producers, crews, and talent for Netflix's upscale dramas, he pointed out.
