Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: Good Machine was an independent film production, film distribution, and foreign sales company started in the early 1990s by its co-founders and producers, Ted Hope and James Schamus. David Linde joined as a partner in the late 1990s and to also start the international sales company. They sold the company to Universal Pictures in 2001; in 2002 it was acquired by Vivendi SA, which merged it with USA Films to create Focus Features. Hope, along with the heads of production development and business affairs (Anthony Bregman, Anne Carey, and Diana Victor) then went on to form the independent production company This is that corporation., Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedy - drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969 , directed by Ang Lee . The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock : A True Story of a Riot , a Concert , and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte . The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival , and opened in New York and Los Angeles on August 26 , 2009 , before its wide theatrical release two days later ., Focus Features is an American film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Focus Features distributes independent and foreign films in the United States and internationally., James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American award-winning screenwriter, co-founder of Good Machine production company, and the CEO of Focus Features, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company, until its merging with FilmDistrict., Subject: taking woodstock, Relation: production_company, Options: (A) focus features (B) good machine (C) independent film (D) this is that corporation (E) universal pictures
Output (English): focus features