Sam Raimi
LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 17: (L-R) Directors Oliver Stone, Sam Raimi and Guillermo del Toro pose after speaking at a filmmakers' roundtable at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, on April 17, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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We were brought on to design characters for Sam Raimi's OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL and had a big appetite for a combination of prosthetics, animatronics, and digital-enhanced characters. Ours was a different direction than production was headed (it's easy for us to have a big appetite when we're not paying the bills). Ultimately, the job went to our friends at KNB.
Both systems are great. I hope [exhibitors] put them in theaters. They create sonic dimension, and I don’t think home systems will have this for a quite a while.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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'Evil Dead' debuts at No. 1 with $26M box-office take
the movie is well on its way to turning a profit.The remake was produced by the 1983 original's filmmakers, director Sam Raimi and producer Rob Tapert , and its star, Bruce Campbell. The new "Evil Dead" lays the gore on thickly for the story of a group of Read more »
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'Evil Dead' review: Bloody boring remake
in 1981, Sam Raimi 's low-budget horror film "The Evil Dead" introduced us to five college students in a remote cabin who discover a book containing a malevolent spirit. There wasn't much more to the story, because Raimi was too busy inventing cheap ways to Read more »
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James Franco is the wizard in new Oz film, 'Oz the Great and Powerful'
fourth of L. Frank Baum's classic children's books, and so it is now in Disney 's "Oz the Great and Powerful," director Sam Raimi 's original prequel to the whole shebang. Like the novel and the musical " Wicked " did with the Wicked Witch of the West, the Read more »
Around the web
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Blu-ray Review: The Amazing Spider-Man (Mastered in 4K)
of the previous Blu-ray release. Too soon? I'll admit to more than my fair share of sour grapes when it was announced that Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man 4' wasn't to be, despite the finished script, when Sony decided to reboot a franchise not even ten years old. from High-Def Digest Read more »
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'Crimewave' Is Just One Example of Sam Raimi's Pulp-Slapstick Sensibility (Review)
three Spider-Man pictures and the recent Oz: The Great and Powerful, it’s easy to think of Sam Raimi as a go-to orchestrator of mainstream blockbusters. But his journey from scrappy low-budget horror director to the guy who finally cracked Spider-Man took from PopMatters Read more »
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DVD: HomeVideo Review: Crimewave
1985, a young Michigan director named Sam Raimi teamed up with a pair of sibling screenwriters, Joel and Ethan Coen, to make a slapstick-noir comedy called Crimewave. It’s a testament to how poorly the results were received—and how the production embittered from The A.V. Club Read more »
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16 Summer Movie Blunders: The Worst 'Oops' Moments From Blockbuster Season
call this one "The Case of Peter Parker and the Indestructible Lamp." In the first installment of the Sam Raimi-helmed, Tobey Maguire-starring "Spider-Man" trilogy, Parker fumbles and fails in his initial attempts to get the hang of web-slinging. Part of his from Cinematical Read more »
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Tobey Maguire strives to make 'Gatsby' great
Maguire had gotten notices for good work in such movies as The Cider House Rules, but it was appearing in Sam Raimis Spider-Man movies that really accelerated his career. In his most recent role, Maguire, 37, plays Nick Carraway in the latest version of F. from Cincinnati Enquirer Read more »
