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Good Machine: History, Art, Companies & Products

Good Machine Productions was an American independent film production, film distribution, and foreign sales company started in the early 1990 by its co-founders and producers, Ted Hope and James Schamus. David Linde joined as a partner in the late 1990s and also started the international sales company Good Machine International. They sold the company to…

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Good Machine topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art, Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Good Machine.

Related topics
104
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
109
Extracted relationships
167
Concept neighborhoods
37
Bridge connections
109

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Filmography · 72 topics
Overview · 14 topics
Background · 11 topics
Disbandment · 4 topics
History · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
1990; 36 years ago (1990)
Founders
Ted Hope James Schamus
Industry
Independent film
Headquarters
New York City, United States
Defunct
2003; 23 years ago (2003)
Divisions
Good Machine International

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Background

History

Disbandment

Filmography

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Good Machine connects Entity context

The extracted context around Good Machine shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Good Machine → AllartsPushing Hands, Amazing, American Playhouse, Asia, Asian Union Film, Back, Banquet, Bedroom, Blow Up PicturesStorytelling, Blow Up PicturesThe Man, Central Motion PicturesEat Drink, Central Motion PicturesSimple Men, Central Motion PicturesWhat Happened, Channel Four Films, Channel Four FilmsShe's, China Film Co-Productions Corporation, Chucky, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Film Production, Constantin FilmSeries Another extracted example is Good Machine → Adventureland, Business Affairs Diana Victor, Corporation, David Linde, Development Anne Carey, Director, Eternal Sunshine, Focus Features, Good Machine Director, In, James Schamus, Production Anthony Bregman, Spotless Mind, Ted Hope, The Savages, This, This Is That, This Is That Productions, Under, Universal. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Good Machine

Top relations

related to Filmography · 111
Good Machine → AllartsPushing Hands, Amazing, American Playhouse, Asia, Asian Union Film, Back, Banquet, Bedroom, Blow Up PicturesStorytelling, Blow Up PicturesThe Man, Central Motion PicturesEat Drink, Central Motion PicturesSimple Men, Central Motion PicturesWhat Happened, Channel Four Films, Channel Four FilmsShe's, China Film Co-Productions Corporation, Chucky, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Film Production, Constantin FilmSeries
related to Disbandment · 21
Good Machine → Adventureland, Business Affairs Diana Victor, Corporation, David Linde, Development Anne Carey, Director, Eternal Sunshine, Focus Features, Good Machine Director, In, James Schamus, Production Anthony Bregman, Spotless Mind, Ted Hope, The Savages, This, This Is That, This Is That Productions, Under, Universal
related to background · 11
Good Machine → Ang Lee's The Ice, Bedroom, Devil, Edward Burns's The Brothers, Flirt, Hal Hartley, McMullen, Ride, Storm, Todd Field’s In, Todd Solondz's Happiness
related to history · 10
Good Machine → Century Fox, Focus, Focus Features, In, It, October Films, Previously, Radar Pictures, The, Universal
Defunct · 1
Good Machine → 2003; 23 years ago (2003)
Divisions · 1
Good Machine → Good Machine International
Fate · 1
Good Machine → Merged with USA Films and Universal Focus to form Focus Features
Founded · 1
Good Machine → 1990; 36 years ago (1990)
Founders · 1
Good Machine → Ted Hope James Schamus
Headquarters · 1
Good Machine → New York City, United States

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

good machine company films features universal focus production pictures productions international independent hope schamus sales linde 2002 film ted james

Good Machine relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 167 structured relationships around Good Machine. Examples in this analysis include Good Machine → Defunct → 2003; 23 years ago (2003) and Good Machine → Divisions → Good Machine International. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Good MachineDefunct2003; 23 years ago (2003)1.00infobox
Good MachineDivisionsGood Machine International1.00infobox
Good MachineFateMerged with USA Films and Universal Focus to form Focus Features1.00infobox
Good MachineFounded1990; 36 years ago (1990)1.00infobox
Good MachineFoundersTed Hope James Schamus1.00infobox
Good MachineHeadquartersNew York City, United States1.00infobox
Good MachineIndustryIndependent film1.00infobox
Good MachineParentUniversal Studios (2002–2003)1.00infobox
Good MachineProductsMotion pictures1.00infobox
Good MachineSuccessorsFocus Features This Is That Productions1.00infobox
Flirtinstance ofHal Hartley projects0.80text
Adventurelandinstance ofUnder the This Is That banner they produced films0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Good Machine bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Machine, International and Productions. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Good Machine
    • Machine
    • International
    • Productions
    • Pictures
    • Production
    • Company
    • Films
    • Film
    • Sales
    • Ted
    • Hope
    • Independent
  • good machine
    • Machine
    • International
    • Productions
    • Pictures
    • Production
    • Films
    • Sales
    • Ted
    • Company
    • Film
    • Hope
    • Independent
  • independent
    • Productions
    • Production
    • Hope
    • Form
    • James
    • Motion
    • Ted
    • Usa
    • Schamus
    • Machine
    • International
    • Pictures
  • film production
    • Productions
    • Independent
    • Distribution
    • Form
    • James
    • Motion
    • Production
    • Ted
    • Usa
    • Hope
    • Schamus
    • Affairs
  • film distribution
    • Independent
    • Productions
    • Distribution
    • Film
    • James
    • Motion
    • Production
    • Ted
    • Usa
    • Hope
    • Schamus
    • International
  • ted hope
    • Productions
    • Form
    • Ted
    • Production
    • Independent
    • Affairs
    • Anne
    • Anthony
    • Bregman
    • Business
    • Carey
    • Development
  • usa films
    • Pictures
    • Film
    • Merged
    • Motion
    • Universal
    • Features
    • Films
    • Usa
    • Independent
    • International
    • Machine
    • Productions
  • pandora film
    • Independent
    • Productions
    • Distribution
    • James
    • Motion
    • Production
    • Ted
    • Usa
    • Hope
    • Schamus
    • International
    • Machine

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Good Machine, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Good Machine with Filmography. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Good MachineFilmography · splits 37 ⟂ 73
Good MachineOverview · splits 95 ⟂ 15
Good MachineBackground · splits 98 ⟂ 12
Good MachineDisbandment · splits 105 ⟂ 5
Good MachineHistory · splits 106 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Good Machine

Nodes110
Edges109
Triples167
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018182
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Good Machine to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art, Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Good Machine · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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