Sam Raimi Reviews, Interviews & More
Sam Raimi's Oz, The Great and Powerful is casting up and Mila Kunis has now signed on, according to Variety. She'll be joining James Franco, who's starring as the titular wizard. The film is a prequel to the classic L. Frank Baum novel and film The Wizard of Oz, and Kunis will play Theodora, a young witch who's rebuffed by Oz...
After months of 'will he or won't he,' Sam Raimi has finally committed to directing Disney's upcoming feature, Oz the Great and Powerful. According to Deadline, the director will helm the spin-off/prequel based on L. Frank Baum’s classic book series, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Sam Raimi is keeping himself busy with all the projects he has in development. There's the highly anticipated World of Warcraft movie, his loose attachment to Oz, The Great and Powerful, and now he's going rogue with Earp: Saints and Sinners. He's tackling the western genre with the help of the graphic novel of the...
James Franco and Bill Hader recently got together for a good cause to celebrate the birthday of Hollywood director Sam Raimi. They released a video on Funny or Die that shows the two commiserating over their relationship with Raimi. Franco plays himself and Hader plays a Spider-Man era Willem Dafoe. Before you watch this you should know one thing...Sam Raimi's...
After the demise of Spider-Man 4, Sam Raimi has managed to keep himself busy with several high profile films including the live action adaptation of the popular video game World or Warcraft. It's also been reported that he'll be helming the Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz, The Great and Powerful...
Last week it was announced that Spider-Man helmer Sam Raimi was offered the gig of a lifetime. He was given the opportunity to direct the upcoming Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz, The Great and Powerful. Sam Mendes was previously rumored as a top contender for the job but those talks fell through. According to...
A while ago Disney announced they were producing a prequel to the 1939 MGM classic The Wizard of Oz. The film is entitled Oz, The Great and Powerful and will focus on the man behind the curtain as opposed to the girl with the ruby slippers. Robert Downey Jr. is rumored to play the title character while several high profile directors have been...
It looks like we're going to get another big screen adaptation of The Shadow in our lifetime thanks to the people over at 20th Century Fox. According to Latino Review, the studio has picked up the rights to Sam Raimi's version of the vintage character that Sony was previously rumored to produce, but after the Spider-Man debacle are we...
Besides Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi has been the face of the Spider-Man franchise for the past eight years and yesterday his relationship with it came to an end. Sony Pictures announced that they were no longer interested in pursuing Spider-Man 4 or Raimi's take on the webslinging character. They have decided to reboot the franchise and start with a younger,...
Are we surprised that the latest Spider-Man movie has been pushed back an entire year? Are we shocked that it will no longer be Spider-Man 4, but some reboot that includes new actors and a new premise? If this announcement throws you for a loop, you haven't been following the play by play of drama that has surrounded the film since its inception. According to...
Sam Raimi promises to get back to the basics in the upcoming sequel, Spider-Man 4. According to the Coventrytelegraph, Raimi opened up about the many critical complaints made about the multiple villains in Spider-Man 3 saying they distracted from the experience. So to redeem himself from villain overload, for the next film he plans on taking...
So many developments have been made regarding Spider-Man 4 and the pending Venom sequel, and director Sam Raimi is opening up about his involvement with the next two films in the series. As previously announced, Sony plans on producing a new trilogy of Spidey films and MTV recently spoke to Raimi about whether or not he'll return to direct...
There's been a serious development on the World of Warcraft movie front. Director Sam Raimi recently told MTV, that the studio has found a writer in Saving Private Ryan scribe, Robert Rodat. A week ago there was some confusion about whether or not the film would be based on the actual game or the novel, "Arthas: Rise...
Sam Raimi was pinned down by MTV and revealed that Spider-Man 4 will finally start shooting in early March of 2010. The fourth film in the franchise won't hit theaters until 2011, but after so much talk of unsuccessful scribes and screenplays, many of you might have gotten a bit worried, but according to Raimi Gary Ross is working on a screenplay right now (as you...
Lionsgate and Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures have teamed up to release a new horror film, Burst 3D. In addition, Neil Marshall, writer and director of The Decent, has been chosen to direct the film. The movie is about a group of travelers who are stranded together during a blizzard, but an evil force is...
If you thought Drag Me to Hell was a great horror film, get a load of this -- Variety is reporting that Sam Raimi, the same guy who brought you the Evil Dead franchise, will spin a new horror banner out of the pre-existing Ghost House label entitled, Spooky Pictures.
Horror genre aficionado Sam Raimi has signed on to produce a new supernatural film entitled Refuge. The project has been set up at Mandate, where Rami’s Ghost House Pictures has a production deal. Refuge centers on a remote town terrorized by a Yeti, the mythological creature native to the mountains of the Himalayas.
Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi are two of the most common actor-director combos in Hollywood. Campbell has made appearances in several Raimi productions in both television and film. Most recently, he's made appearances in all three of the director's live action adaptations of Marvel Comics Spider-Man. With the fourth installment of the web-slinging series on the...
As I write this post I am in shock and disbelief. There's going to be a Spiderman 5 and 6?!! What is going on right now? Spiderman 4 has always been a redemption project in my eyes, so I let it slide under the radar. Yet according to Variety, a writer by the of James Vanderbilt has been hired to pen the 5th and the 6th installment of...
This is the reunion I've been waiting for. Producer Sam Raimi has re-teamed with star Lucy Lawless (Xena: The Warrior Princess) for an epic new series called Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Spartacus is a new drama that will appear on the cable network, Starz. That means no restrictions on language,...
