Part one of CINESCAPE's profile on SPIDER-MAN director SamRaimi delved into Raimi's vision for the eagerly anticipated comic book adaptation and the director's choice of actor Tobey Maguire to play Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Part two chronicles the directo...
... genius, SamRaimi.
You would be hard pressed to go anywhere without Spider-man being plastered in your face one way or another. From walking into your local Wal-Mart and seeing the newly molded toys ready to please children everywhere to th...
Parts one and two of CINESCAPE's profile on SPIDER-MAN director SamRaimi delved into Raimi's vision for the eagerly anticipated comic book adaptation and the director's choices of Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst to play Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Mary J...
Beginning an in-depth chat with SPIDER-MAN director SamRaimi, CINESCAPE cuts directly to the chase and asks the question already burning in the minds of the web-slinger's legions of fans: What's going on with SPIDER-MAN 2? "Sony has asked me to direct nu...
According to TheOneRing.net, New Line is apparently looking for another big name director to helm the directorless Hobbit franchise and it seems they have turned to Spider-Man's SamRaimi.TheOneRing writes, "Word from a reliable source indicates that...
SamRaimi sat down with Ryan Rotten to discuss 30 DAYS OF NIGHT which hits theaters today. Despite the fact that SamRaimi has absolutely no directing gigs lined up, he still has a busy schedule as a producer alongside Rob Tapert and&n...
SamRaimi has been talking about what he knows regarding the posibility of further SPIDER-MAN movies, though he, as yet, is not involved in them.While talking to Spider-Man Hype, Raimi spoke of what he knew about potential sequels, saying, "I assume and I...
According to IGN, SamRaimi will direct a project which will bring to life several superheroes from Street and Smith Publications. Characters would include Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger along with other Street and Smith characters.A screenplay...
SamRaimi talked to Chuck the Movie Guy about how the story for SPIDER-MAN 2 came together, and said that he's ready to direct SPIDER-MAN 3. Raimi's decision that Peter Parker needed to lose his powers in the second film was influenced by the comics thems...
According to ComingSoon.net, director SamRaimi (Spider-Man) and his producing partner Joshua Donen will develop a mini-series based on the bestselling SWORD OF TRUTH book series.ComingSoon writes, "Having been approached by Hollywood a number of times ov...
Two bits of genre news circulating around SamRaimi this morning and they're from the same press release at Variety. First, Raimi is heading back to his genre roots with a new supernatural thriller called DRAG ME TO HELL, a new story he wrote himself alon...
Director SamRaimi was at an event in Los Angeles in cooperation for a Spidey spoof contest sponsered by Target. While at the event, MTV had a chance to talk to Raimi for the first time in the post SPIDER-MAN 3 era. Some interesting comments came out...
When we last heard from SPIDER-MAN director SamRaimi about the latest on the third Spidey movie last month, Raimi still hadn't decided on what villain he would be using in the second sequel. It still looks like Raimi hasn't made up his mind, but at least...
Having signed onto a SPIDER-MAN sequel a few weeks ago (more than a month before the release of the first film in the series), director SamRaimi is already talking about SPIDER-MAN 2."I've just signed on to do SPIDER-MAN 2 actually," Raimi said. "We have...
SamRaimi is currently in heavy polish mode for the May release of SPIDER-MAN, while also gearing up for heavy PR mode, hoping to lure fans of the 40 year old hero to his next big screen incarnation.While talking to MOVIELINE about his long-awaited take o...
Nothing too shocking there since he's said it many times since SPIDER-MAN 3 hit theaters. Still, SamRaimi gave his take on the development of SPIDER-MAN 4 while talking to our good friends over at Wizard Entertainment. He confirms that developing the fir...
Raimi on SPIDER-MAN 2 by Christopher Allan Smith and Arnold T. Blumberg (Wed 05-01-2002)
SamRaimi is talking about both SPIDER-MAN and SPIDER-MAN 2 in an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE, carried in two parts on our website today.He confirmed for us he's beginning work on the sequel, even though the first film in the series centering on Ma...
More news has crossed the wires confirming the thoughts that SamRaimi and Columbia Pictures still have a decent working relationship.Last week, Raimi hinted that he may be up to returning to do Spider-Man 4 after a year of saying he needed a break and a ...
SamRaimi & Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures have picked up the rights to the video game SIREN from SCE Worldwide Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment's worldwide game development studios.The movie will center on an American medical school student who go...
In an interview with SFX magazine, director SamRaimi talks briefly about his experience in working on The Gift and what he would like to take from it to apply to his latest endeavor of filming Spider-Man. Here is what he had to say:`Spider-Man won`t be ...
SamRaimi hinted that he may be ready to return for a fourth Spider-Man film to the movie magazine Premiere. "I love Spider-Man and I love working with Kirsten, Tobey, James," said Raimi, "I have to make sure that when I'm done with this p...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Columbia Pictures has pre-emptively picked up a action-adventure from writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift for SamRaimi and Josh Donen to produce through their Buckaroo Entertainment banner.The project, whose title i...
...ther than SamRaimi to lead the project offering him anything and everything.
We know that Raimi has been laying low recently and has stated that while he would like to "produce" and "help out" in the SPIDER-MAN 4 project for Sony...
In the glow of his SPIDER-MAN triumph, director SamRaimi is putting his money where his love is and starting a genre film label with longtime producing partner Rob Tapert. The label, which still does not have a name, will producer "midbudget" horror, sci...
Sony Pictures Entertainment has set SamRaimi to direct THE WEE FREE MEN. Pamela Pettler will write the script, which will be based on Terry Pratchett's bestselling young-adult novel.The story centers on a 9-year-old farm girl who heads off to a parallel ...
Director/producer SamRaimi has already indicated this opinion once before about who should direct THE HOBBIT and he hasn't changed his mind. A number of A-list directors and stars of the LOTR series feel the same way which has put New Line into a de...
Stephanie Sanchez over at IESB got a scoop on THE HOBBIT, a pretty impressive one if it turns out to be true. An inside source is saying that director SamRaimi may not be directing the rumored CLASH OF THE TITANS remake after all, as previously reported,...
Paramount Pictures is dusting off its rights for Jack Ryan stories, based on Tom Clancy's created character, and plans to bring a new series of films to the big screen with SamRaimi set as director. The new films will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventur...
SamRaimi, the director of the Evil Dead and Spider-Man films, has said numerous times over the last year that he will only be aboard more Spidey installments as an executive producer, preferring to take a break into different projects. Since those quotes...
In a quick interview with the CALGARY SUN, SPIDER-MAN star Toby Maguire and director SamRaimi thankfully side-stepped the normal boosterism of creatives hyping their next film, and let us in on how directors sometimes mess with the heads of actors to get...
Just the interest of SPIDER-MAN director SamRaimi caused a seven figure bidding war over the rights to the vampire comic 30 DAYS OF NIGHTS. The story is one of the projects Raimi is contemplating after finishing SPIDER-MAN 2, which starts shooting in Jan...
Normally, I would have skipped over this latest interview with Raimi because too many sites/interviewers seem to be asking Sam the same question too many times. The director/producer has already stated on numerous occasions that he will not...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER states that Shaun Cassidy (yes, that Shaun Cassidy) and SamRaimi will work together once again to deliver a currently untitled "latter-day Jekyll-and-Hyde" series for CBS. The show will center on a forensic psychiatrist.The pair pr...
Director SamRaimi has helped to create some original Internet shows for FEARnet, a horror and thriller Web site and video-on-demand provider. His Ghost House Pictures has launched the first of two such series, DEVIL'S TRADE, this week. The seri...
We were just discussing the subject of SamRaimi's future in yesterday's Del Toro-Hobbit story and now we have an answer as to what he will be working on. He has hinted about this in previous interviews but the latest press release has this...
SamRaimi's upcoming syndicated fantasy series "Wizard's First Rule" is set to premiere in all of the top 50 markets in the US, reports Variety.The ABC/Disney show, based on the "Sword of Truth" books by Terry Goodkind, is greenlit for...
...arvel and SamRaimi to include Venom and Gwen Stacy adversely affected this film. This forced the screenwriters to effectively remove the Sandman – apparent death – and Harry Osborn – amnesia – early in the film to make roo...
Horror comes easy for director SamRaimi and producer Robert Tapert who haven't forgotten their EVIL DEAD roots as they've become major Hollywood players in TV and film (Raimi after all was responsible for that little superhero franchise SPIDER-MAN).While...
...ious that SamRaimi has read some SPIDER-MAN comics in his time - which is more than can be said of most people directing comic book adaptations. Anyway, I thought your review was a fair assessment of the film and not just full of vitriol like most cri...
Spider-Man 2 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 07-01-2004)
...Making It:SamRaimi (Director); Alvin Sargent, Michael Chabon, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar (Screenwriters); Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, Ian Bryce (Producers).Premise:Spider-Man faces off against a new menace: the diabolical Doctor Octopus, a brilliant scien...
...knew that SamRaimi was going to do it, I knew that Tobey [Maguire] was going to do it, and that really identified it for me as something special because I thought they weren't the usual people off the list to make a movie like this," says Dafoe. "Then...
Scoring for SamRaimi seems to be the best and worst thing that could have happened to Joseph LoDuca. Both men showed themselves to be frighteningly talented when they made their respective directing and film scoring debuts with 1982's THE EVIL DEAD. Even...
... director SamRaimi heartfelty shared that Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man, which will don the classic red and blue Spider-Man costume with updates to bring it into the year 2002 (hopefully not that spandex look from the awful 1978 The Amazing Spider-Man T...
Here's a story that's causing us (and probably a lot of others) to blink in surprise: according to a just published Latino Review SPIDER-MAN director SamRaimi is quoted as saying that Sony Pictures Vice Chairman Amy Pascal has told Raimi to wrap things u...
...eenplay), SamRaimi (Producer), Robert G. Tapert (Producer)Release Date: October 19, 2007Premise: Based on a Steve Niles graphic novel, the story is set in a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty cons...
After his additional music credit on SPIDER-MAN 2, Christopher Young has been hired to compose the original score for SPIDER-MAN 3, to be released on 7 May, 2007. Shooting began on earlier this month, once again under the direction of SamRaimi. Tobey Mag...
The upcoming Vampire story 30 Days of Night may not be in theaters till this Halloween but that won't stop distributor Sony or producer SamRaimi from planning ahead. An inside source/scooper over at Cinema Blend are passing along that both Sony and Raimi...
The rumors about FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH are true. Today's Hollywood Reporter confirms that New Line Cinema has entered discussions with director SamRaimi, the fellow who helmed the three EVIL DEAD pictures and who owns the copyright to Ash, the sarcast...
.../director SamRaimi was most guilty in trying to add more…And while Thomas Hayden Church was a great choice for his role, Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom…not so much. I just couldn’t buy “Eric Forman” as a malevol...
... include; SamRaimi, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron. New Line's Bob Shaye was quick to add that there is a short list of directors that they're looking into but no decisions have been made at this point. As a sidenote, SamRaimi was offered the ...
If you've been off-planet for the past few months, SPIDER-MAN 2 (a.k.a. "The Amazing Spider-Man") has been filming in New York City and Chicago for the past month. Director SamRaimi and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst all return in the sequel to 20...
...oduced by SamRaimi’s Ghost House Productions and directed by David Slade (Hard Candy), the film brings Niles and Templesmith’s story to the screen with fangs bared and an R-rating. I had a chance to talk to Steve about his experience...
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SamRaimi remakes his classic camp horror film and takes everything a step further than he did before. A classic in genre films! In case you don’t know the film is about a group going to a remote cabin and accidentally wa...
...dback and SamRaimi announced optioning the series for a TV spin-off after nearly 10 months of negotiations. Now with this newest release it seems the Seeker of Truth tale does not lack for commercial momentum, but just how well has the meandering seri...
...producers SamRaimi (EVIL DEAD, DARKMAN, SPIDER-MAN and SPIDER-MAN 2), Rob Tapert (THE GIFT, EVIL DEAD, HERCULES and XENA) and Taka Ichise (RINGU and DARK WATER). THE GRUDGE is the curse of someone who has died in the grip of a powerful rage and the st...
...t to give SamRaimi a heart attack? That's evil. Sorry, that's not happening any time soon. I would just say no for Sam's sake so that he can have a break. We would all do it together, because Sam, Tobey [Maguire] and I are a team now, but there's no w...
In a recent article by EW.com, a few juicy quotes surfaced from SamRaimi regarding The Hobbit, as well as from various others regarding Spider-Man 4."Peter Jackson might be the best filmmaker on the planet right now," said Raimi when asked abou...
...ook it to SamRaimi and Rob Tapert. I first showed it to Rob and said, "We've got to get this to Sam and let him see it." And Rob said, "Ah, I don't know if Sam wants to do another horror picture." And I said, "Well, please just show it to him." I got ...
...king with SamRaimi to prep the SPIDEY 2 script."We can't really talk too much about the story -- because the X-Men will be sent out to kill us -- but you will see Peter grow and evolve," Gough said when asked what's in store for Peter Parker in part 2...
...ll apart. SamRaimi who was attached to the project in principal dropped out due to other commitments and the possibility of an EVIL DEAD remake. Eventually, New Line dropped the project and everyone went their seperate ways including the original scre...
... Director SamRaimi has accomplished what even the truest of true believers were starting to think they'd never see in their lifetimes: He's brought Spider-Man to the big screen in all his quirky, underdog glory. Treating the material with loving respe...
... Director SamRaimi and producer Robert Tapert provide the first commentary, but you can tell they've talked about this movie until they're blue in the face with Tapert remembering more about the filming than Raimi himself. For a second commentary thou...
A day after the announcement SamRaimi would be directing the big screen version of Steve Niles' vampire tale, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, Niles contacted our own Editor-In-Chief Anthony C. Ferrante about his joy at the developments. "I couldn't be more thrilled," ...
...on films. SamRaimi had been preceived as the initial front-runner as director but Del Toro had emerged in recent months as the likely candidate.The studios didn’t give a start date on production and don’t yet have a script. Though no scree...
The first EVIL DEAD was half grueling horror and half nonsense, so for the followup, SamRaimi apparently decided to embrace the nonsense intentionally. Half-sequel and half-remake, the film treads much of the same ground as the original, but this time th...
While talking to Blog Talk Radio, screenwriter James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) briefly talked about the experience of writing Spider-Man 4. He's in charge of setting the overall story for Sony's Columbia Pictures while SamRaimi, Laura-Schuler Donner, Avi Arad ...
... Simpson. SamRaimi, Josh Donen and Dan Farah are producing while Chris Lemos and Luis Guerrero both executive produce. Production is already under way in Los Angeles.
Plot Concept: Ulrich will play Dobbs, a scruffy member of an armored truck co...
The Pacifica production company is in negotiations to acquire the feature film rights to D. Graham Burnett's book A TRIAL BY JURY as a vehicle for SamRaimi to direct and produce.The book tells the true life story, in two parts, of the author's experience...
Paramount Pictures has preemptively picked up the rights to Monster Zoo, says the Hollywood Reporter. The production will be based off an upcoming graphic novel from Doug TenNapel, for a live-action adaptation that will be produced by SamRaimi and Josh D...
... director SamRaimi involved, "it's not like it's just a superhero movie," Dunst adds. "You feel connected to these characters. You feel like you can relate to them. There are many places we can go with my role and Peter's role and I really feel like i...
...GHT, with SamRaimi producing and Niles working on a screenplay.The book tells the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is a...
Evil Dead #1 by Kurt Amacker, Columnist (Tue 01-15-2008)
...sion from SamRaimi and Ghost House Pictures, Verheiden and Dark Horse have expanded on the story of the film. For those unfamiliar with the series – a bunch of young adults gather at a cabin in the woods once inhabited by an archaeologist t...
... director SamRaimi and producers Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad and Ian Bryce have all signed on for the sequel.THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN is scheduled to begin filming in January, 2003, with a May 7, 2004, release.Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think ...
OK, so we all know the wall-crawler's big screen debut was a monster smash, yadda yadda yadda. Thanks to the efforts of director SamRaimi, stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe and the many men and women behind the scenes of this summer's firs...
...New York, SamRaimi wrapped principal photography on his SPIDER-MAN movie.On the embryonic level came word that Steven Spielberg was already giving the thumbs up for development to start on a fourth JURASSIC PARK film, prior to the release of the third...
...nbsp;When SamRaimi asked Young to come aboard to compose additional music for Spider-Man 2, most significantly providing the thrilling subway battle between Doctor Octopus and the web-slinger. Now with the super-powered successes of the Young-scored G...
... director SamRaimi and producers Laura Ziskin and Marvel Studio's Avi Arad, the successful film making team responsible for the first two films. Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace have also been added to the cast of the blockbuster franchise.KJ's Ta...
... director SamRaimi does - with "Spider-Man 3" due to open on May 4, star Tobey Maguire has said he may let someone else play the web slinger.KJ's Take: Holy god, $200 million on Shazam?! You can't be serious.
...oduced by SamRaimi and Robert Tapert, for whom LoDuca has worked on the EVIL DEAD trilogy, among other things. MovieScore Media announces the online soundtrack release of the music from the political drama LAND OF THE BLIND directed by Robert Edwards ...
...oduced by SamRaimi and Robert Tapert, for whom LoDuca has worked on the EVIL DEAD trilogy, among other things. The film is directed by Hong Kong's Pang Brothers and stars Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan McDermott, Kristen Stewart, John Corbett and Dustin M...
...en Susco. SamRaimi, Rob Tapert and Taka Ichise will produce. Mandate Pictures' Joe Drake & Nathan Kahane and Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee & Doug Davison will executive produce.
According to ComingSoon, Sony has revealed, via SamRaimi, that they will make a Spider-Man 4, 5 and 6.Raimi revealed the information in LA at a press junket, but also said that he hasn't had the time to decide on his own involvement in the project.He lat...
... director SamRaimi brought in other composers to write additional cues. The opening music credits read "Original Music Themes by Danny Elfman" and "Score by Christopher Young," while the end credits list a great number of specific ...
...y trusted SamRaimi obviously and Rob Tapert to deliver a decent horror movie and there was very little in the way of intervention in the terms of, "That's too much" or "That's not Hollywood enough for us." There was none of that re...
...oduced by SamRaimi and directed by David Slade based on a screenplay by Stuart Beattie, Niles and Brian Nelson.
A new redband clip for the film has showed up over at Sony's site. You can check it out here.
Plot Concept: Set in the isolated town of ...
...otlighted SamRaimi a few weeks ago), the basement scene has a The Hills Have Eyes poster in it. Wes Craven, who obviously loved the Evil Dead movies, caught it early on in his viewing of it. As a show of fellow respect, in his next film A Nightmare on...
...ies; with SamRaimi already filming SPIDER-MAN 2 and a release date stamped out for next summer, it's bad publicity for the studio. For Marvel, it may give other movie studios pause to reconsider licensing one of the remaining Marvel superhero charact...
If you've been sitting around waiting for SamRaimi to announce the start of filming for EVIL DEAD IV, the next best thing is happening: there's going to be a sequel to ARMY OF DARKNESS in comic book form.ARMY OF DARKNESS #1 will hit store shelves this co...
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SamRaimi directs this fantastic sequel this time pitting Spidey against Doc Ock.
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Will Farrell plays a 6 foot tall man raised with Santa’s elves that decides to seek out his birth father in this holiday com...
... director SamRaimi had been asked to direct "The Hobbit." He said, however, that although there was no workable script yet for the film, he intended to release it in 2009.Peter Jackson is not expected to direct the film due to a falling out ...
According to the Irish Examiner, the cast of SPIDER-MAN 3 has been called back to do various reshoots after complaints from test audiences."The next thing I'm shooting? Re-shoots on Spider-Man... Probably next month," said James Franco. (Director Sam Rai...
...ducer(s): SamRaimi, Rob Tapert and Taka Ichise (Producers); Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane, Roy Lee, Doug Davison (Executive Producer)Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Jennifer Beals, Arielle Kebbel, Teresa Palmer, Sarah Michelle GellarStudio: Columbia Pictures Producti...
... director SamRaimi in the not-too-distant future.
Harry Turtledove weaves an alternate historical fiction of an early civilization’s first trek into the world beyond their glacier-ridden home in the hardcover release Beyond the Gap wh...
...olumn on SamRaimi?
If you did, you would have noticed I thought about doing a feature on Clint Eastwood.
That same effect has held true this week. I’ve continued onward on him but I’m having what I some people (or rather ...
... likes of SamRaimi and Quentin Tarantino… and ultimately George A. Romero. We were hearing from all our heroes basically, about how much they enjoyed it. You spend years loving George A Romero’s films and making a film that’s entire...
Spider-Man 4 by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Wed 10-31-2007)
Status: Script Stage
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Director: TBA
Producers: SamRaimi, Laura-Schuler Donner, Avi Arad, Laura Ziskin
Writer: James Vanderbilt
Plot Concept: TBA
Release: Sometime in 2009 or 2010.
...e between SamRaimi, Rob Tapert and Mandate Pictures, will once again unleash terror on horror fans with 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails. This chilling gore fest about blood-thirsty vampires is inspired by Steve Niles’ ground-breaking graphic...
...oduced by SamRaimi and they've got their own specific fan base. Why should you get it: The pilot episode alone is one of the best pieces of horror television from the past ten years (and that includes The X-Files). SOUTH PARK: THE COMPLETE FIRST FIVE ...
...me on you SamRaimi), Exorcist The Beginning (would have been kind of interesting if it didn't have the word Exorcist in the title) Resident Evil II (Quite possibly the worst of the bunch. I can't believe I didn't walk out.) Oh. The Horror. BUT.. ...th...
... director SamRaimi would all be returning to work on SPIDER-MAN 3, and that the film (which hasn't even got a script yet) will be released on May 4, 2007. Nothing like planning ahead for getting your tickets, right?Got a scoop? Know something that yo...
... as well. SamRaimi and the producers and cast have delivered a great film."The opening for the sequel beats the ticket receipts record held by the first SPIDER-MAN film ($39.4 M) back in 2002. As well, the second film has set a new record for the larg...
Grudge, The by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 07-01-2004)
... director SamRaimi, and Senator International are producing the remake. Screenwriter Stephen Susco adapted the project and the english version will be directed by Takashi Shimizu, the same fellow who helmed the original film.THE GRUDGE is about what h...
... director SamRaimi serving as one of the producers. The film rights to CRIMINAL MACABRE, Niles new horror mini-series, sold to MGM this past June.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
Lucy Lawless, the Warrior Princess we all know as Xena, will star in the horror flick BOOGEYMAN, now shooting in New Zealand. The film is being produced by Ghost House Pictures, the partnership formed by XENA creators SamRaimi and Robert Tapert, Screen G...
...producers SamRaimi and Robert Tapert, will find a way to retain the jolts while putting a little more heart into the proceedings.Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at feedback@cinescape.com.
Criminal Macabre by Corona's Coming Attractions (Tue 08-10-2004)
...opment at SamRaimi and Robert Tapert's production company. Issue two of CRIMINAL MACABRE arrives in stores today.[The Hollywood Reporter.]August 9, 2004... Writer Bragi Schut has been hired to fashion Steve Niles' CRIMINAL MACABRE comic book into a fe...
Universal has reportedly passed on making a film out of the AMERICAN GOTHIC TV series, which aired from September 1995 to July 1996 on CBS. The series was created by Shaun Cassidy and executive produced by SamRaimi and Robert G. Tapert.The show centered...
... director SamRaimi. "The special challenge of BOOGEYMAN came from Stephen Kay, our director," LoDuca says. "He asked me for a gritty, non-melodic score that morphed electronic and acoustic elements into something fresh and organic. As far as musical t...
In an article mentioning the success that SamRaimi, Robert Tapert and Senator International have had with the first release from their Ghost House Pictures company (specifically THE GRUDGE), Variety reveals a new horror project in development at the prod...
Hong Kong directors/twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, creators of THE EYE, have been tapped to make their American feature film debut with SCARECROW, a horror film in development with Blue Star Pictures and Ghost House Pictures. SamRaimi and Robert Tap...
Rerun Madness by Andrew Hershberger (Mon 06-09-2003)
... pm, TNT) SamRaimi has shown a strong Sergio Leone influence in his EVIL DEAD trilogy, but when he tries to do a Leone western all he gets is egg on the face. Certainly not a case of the student becoming the master, pity.BATTLEFIELD EARTH (9 pm, SCI-F...
UNDEAD Heads by Anthony C. Ferrante (Wed 11-30-2005)
.... Romero, SamRaimi and Peter Jackson, Undead follows the denizens of a small Australian town who are transformed into zombies after a meteorite hits. While the film is certainly hardcore when it comes to horror, it also has a decidedly sci-fi twist th...
... director SamRaimi, SPIDER-MAN 2 sensibly assumes we're reasonably familiar with the earlier film, though a comic book-style title sequence brings us up to speed with previous key events. This allows the filmmakers to skip either inventing a mythology...
SamRaimi and Rob Taper's Ghost House Pictures will fully finance and develop the MONKEY'S PAW, a pitch from writers Dave Kajganich and Tom McAlister. Raimi and Taper will produce the "spooky family" film.The story centers on a father who brings home an a...
... director SamRaimi, executive producers Stan Lee and Avi Arad, and composer Danny Elfman.Joining the Spider-stars were other celebrities like Bill Paxton (FRAILTY), Ted Raimi (XENA), our favorite "Man in Black" Will Smith, Kelly Preston (BATTLEFIELD E...
It's hard to remember as the May 3 release date for SamRaimi's SPIDER-MAN rushes at us, but the famous web slinger's first big screen adventure has been in development for over 10 years. Why? Because with Marvel Comics 1990s bankruptcy and more legal hur...
... director SamRaimi the battle-fatigued filmmaker overseeing the character's big-screen debut."Ever since I was a little kid, I loved Spider-Man," said Raimi in the summer of 2000, nearly two years to the day before the film's scheduled unveiling. "My...
SamRaimi confirmed at Comic Con the rumors that Topher Grace (THAT 70's SHOW) will indeed be playing the big black alien, Venom. At the roundtable panel he went on to talk about the look of venom, something fans were anxious to hear about. The room was r...
... director SamRaimi will be there. And Raimi, who has sent contradictory messages about his future plans, might at last indicate whether he'll helm the next installment."It would be great to have everybody back," Ziskin says. "But no one...
...b Tapert, SamRaimi, and a few others who would provide the genesis of THE EVIL DEAD team, some of whom would carry on with them to the XENA and HERCULES days. Campbell's book shares stories of his earliest brushes with greatness as a dresser for summ...
Though both SamRaimi and Bruce Campbell have repeatedly declared that there are no plans for another EVIL DEAD movie, the persistent rumor has risen again due to producer Robert Tapert.According to Fangoria, while appearing at a recent screening of EVIL ...
Both Sony and SamRaimi are said to be feeling pretty good about the potential for a sequel to their coming SPIDER-MAN movie.According to Variety, Sony and Raimi are said to have already begun to make preparations to fast-track a sequel for the comin...
No, thats not a personal jab towards the series from me. That's just the current news coming from SamRaimi after meeting with Sony. A few weeks ago, it was announced that Raimi, producers and Sony would be sitting down for a meeting to discuss the next i...
The year started off with two prominent movies based on Marvel comic series taking big steps forward.On a Los Angeles soundstage, a major press conference heralded the start of filming of SPIDER-MAN with SamRaimi helming. Raimi was on hand, as well as so...
... director SamRaimi (for whom he composed DARKMAN and A SIMPLE PLAN) when he begins scoring SPIDER-MAN. The film is already sparking some interest, with as many fans wondering what Elfman is going to do with the music as they are wondering how Raimi wi...
... based on SamRaimi's ARMY OF DARKNESS horror film which features Bruce Campbell's Ash character, the demon-butt kicking smarmy hero of Raimi's EVIL DEAD duology. As you may recall, New Line Cinema had been considering adding the character of Ash into ...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE, director SamRaimi revealed what's in store with the EVIL DEAD remake he'll be producing. "We want to find a director who will make the film his or her own, with a fresh take on the material," says Raimi. "I will ...
... director SamRaimi, Kevin Smith and plenty more.Among the entertainment panels being held at this year's con are:-- Presentations by Warner Bros. previewing their upcoming lineup of genre films, such as GOTHIKA, TROY, LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION, TOR...
Steve Johnson, the anaimatronic designer working on the Doctor Octopus tentacles in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, told Sci-Fi Wire the reasons why the Doctor's mechanical arms will be real and not pixels."Sam's [Raimi, the director] a fan [of animatronics], and...
Director SamRaimi told Cinescape that he has enlisted Danny (Sleep Hollow) Elfman to compose the score for his Spider-Man feature film. `He is [perfect for the film]. He`s a great composer,` said Raimi, during an online chat Friday. `I really have enjoye...
...s between SamRaimi and Danny Elfman during the post-production of SPIDER-MAN 2, Raimi brought in other composers to complete the unfinished score. One of those composers was Christopher Young, and according to sources close to Raimi and Elfman, it app...
...Director: SamRaimi, and Best Writer: Alvin Sargent. It also won Best Special EffectsKILL BILL VOL. 2 also received multiple honors for Best Film (Action/Adventure/Thriller), Best Supporting Actor: David Carradine, and Best Supporting Actress: Daryl H...
Director SamRaimi and leading stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst said they would prefer a few years off before jumping back into the Spider-Man franchise and it seems that's exactly what Sony and Columbia Pictures is planning to do. There have been re...
...he show), SamRaimi, Renee O'Connor, and many others.And the winners were:Best Science Fiction Film: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MINDBest Fantasy Film: SPIDER-MAN 2Best Horror Film: SHAUN OF THE DEADBest Action/Adventure/Thriller Film: KILL BILL: ...
... director SamRaimi, who's adapting Terry Goodkind's fantasy series Wizards's First Rule into a television series and is now in charge of launching a new Jack Ryan movie franchise for Paramount. Kelvin and El Mayimbe claim that sources within the p...
... director SamRaimi and company have to resort to a few narrative shoehorns to squeeze it all in, including more than a few happy coincidences and back-and-forth editing. It takes so long to set up the Sandman storyline that one begins to wonder whethe...
It seems while the rest of us were doing whatever we were doing last weekend, a few lucky fans were invited to four special screenings of SamRaimi's SPIDER-MAN.So, according to those who were there, what can we expect a few short weeks from now? Keith Ba...
...Director: SamRaimi. Highly regarded as one of the best independent horror films of all time, THE EVIL DEAD concerns five young friends who go up to a remote cabin in the woods, only to unearth a horrifying evil lurking in the forest. The film is a tr...
Columbia Pictures will distribute the American remake of THE GRUDGE, based on the Japanese horror movie JU-ON. Ghost House Pictures, the film production company of director SamRaimi, and Senator International are producing the remake. Screenwriter Stephe...
... the next SamRaimi or Darren Aronofsky? We think you do!The winner will not only get the chance to make their movie a reality, but the making of the project will also be filmed and broadcast as PROJECT GREENLIGHT 3 on Bravo TV. You get to hang out wit...
...opment at SamRaimi and Robert Tapert's production company. Issue two of CRIMINAL MACABRE arrives in stores today.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
Video game distributor THQ has announced the release of EVIL DEAD: A FISTFUL OF BOOMSTICK for the PlayStation 2. Developed with EVIL DEAD's director SamRaimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce Campbell, A FISTFUL OF BOOMSTICK serves as a semi-sequel...
While the majority of people were taking it easy and enjoying the Easter long weekend, that wasn't the case with SamRaimi and the cast and crew of SPIDER-MAN 2. The production was filming scenes involving Spider-Man swinging above city streets -- and wi...
Plans are afoot at MGM to remake the 1961 film EL CID. Scott B. Smith, the novelist who penned the book A SIMPLE PLAN (and who eventually wrote the screenplay that SamRaimi directed the film from) has been hired to write the new CID script for producer A...
...director) SamRaimi back before the first movie came out," explains Gough. "Then, after the first movie came out, David Koepp approached the studio and said he had an idea for the sequel that he wanted to write himself exclusively. The studio felt that...
Before my phone interview with Bruce Campbell on Thursday evening, I spent the better part of an hour and a half trying to calm down. I was nervous, to say the least. I undertook my usual pre-interview ritual drinking. This time, it was two swallows of B...
...e Romero, SamRaimi and Peter Jackson. Includes the rock anthem "Little Green Men" performed by Buttkrak and features exclusive liner notes from the composer and the directors. http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Undead.html
...ch led by SamRaimi and Robert Tapert. No deal to bring back Sarah Michelle Gellar for the second encounter with vengeful Japanese ghosts has been made -- so far.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it to us!
... director SamRaimi and his brother Ivan have come up with into a working screenplay. So far no details concerning the third movie's storyline or even who the main villain will be have surfaced.SPIDER-MAN 3 hits theaters May 4, 2007.Got a scoop? Know ...
... director SamRaimi, producer Laura Ziskin and star Tobey Maguire while the second track features special effects supervisor John Dykstra and members of his FX team. Additional material available on the first disc include a blooper reel, trailers, Trai...
...inger and SamRaimi), Jackie Chan, James Bond and Halle Berry (41, 42, 43).Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at feedback@cinescape.com.
... Director SamRaimi, Producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad, Creator and Executive Producer Stan Lee, John Dykstra (Special Effects), and screenplay writers Michael Chabon, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. From the soundtrack Chris Carraba (Dashboard Confe...
...e tearing SamRaimi a new a**hole. They were like, 'The movie's going to suck!' But now, they've settled down. I don't need that kind of torture in my life; I get enough from the life that I lead."With his revamp of the Emerald Archer a big splash amon...
EVIL DEAD how do I love thee, let me count the ways. My love of SamRaimi's schlock-horror-comedy series is no secret. Unfortunately, while extremely well-drawn-and-colored and occasionally amusing, the ARMY OF DARKNESS comics have never been quite up t...
When the film rights to the horror comic 30 DAYS OF NIGHT first sold last summer, anticipation started to swell. Attached to possibly direct the movie was none other than SPIDER-MAN helmer SamRaimi (who was most definitely involved as one of the film's ...
James Franco, who played Daniel in the cult hit TV show FREAKS AND GEEKS and Harry Osborn in the film adaptation of SPIDER-MAN, was elated to work with Robert De Niro in the new release CITY BY THE SEA."Working with him was like a dream," says Franco of h...
With the SPIDER-MAN movie release months away, it isn't surprising to hear that there will be further shooting on the project.According to Variety columnist Army Archerd, next week SamRaimi and company will be shooting added action sequences as well as r...
... director SamRaimi and co-stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, which given the status of the film, is not a large surprise. What the special Collector's Edition will also include is a reprint of AMAZING FANTASY #15, which recounted SPIDEY's first ap...
It looks like Sony is getting crazy serious about getting SPIDER-MAN 2 to the big screen, possibly as early as the holiday 2003 movie season. According to a story in VARIETY, not only has the studio already signed director SamRaimi (see related news item...
More of the features of the SPIDER-MAN DVD release have been revealed, and it looks like SamRaimi and Kirsten Dunst will be giving commentary on the film, along with producer Laura Ziskin and co-producer Grant Curtis. Also along for some commentary is le...
...less than SamRaimi) as well as for his days running Full Moon's post-production and special effects departments. Today, he runs Fat Cat Post and turns out direct-to-video fare such as WITCHOUSE 3: DEMON FIRE, but back when Matt Walsh and he met, the O...
Rather like the original title, in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter you'll once again be given the delightful task of facing masses of deadly minions, most of which answer to one evil dude - Mental's his name and getting on Sam's nerves is hi...
Something that typically happens with a new series is that the more you watch it, the more you start to question possible plot issues. I’ve been complaining about the Andi/Sam stagnant relationship that could get boring after a while and this w...