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David Fincher is bringing your favorite Swedish hacker girl Lisbeth Salander to life in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo — but he almost tackled Spider-Man instead. In our exclusive interview, the director told us how he would have handled the web-slinger... and walked us through his operatic title sequence in great detail. More »
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What if Sam Raimi wanted his Green Goblin to look more like an actual monster, and less a man in a mask? Then Willem Dafoe would have looked a lot like this. These clips of the rejected make-up tests for Raimi's Spider-Man are scary... but not necessarily in a good way. More »
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Next summer, Spider-Man gets a fresh start, with a brand new reboot starring Andrew Garfield. But this won't be just a second chance for Spidey — the web-slinging hero has had plenty of second and third chances on the big screen already. More »
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Since Sucker Punch failed to conquer the box office, there's been lots of speculation about why it was a box office failure. Was it too stylized? Was it the reviews? Did it fail to appeal to women or older adults? More »
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A new Day of the Triffids movie sounds like a dreadful idea — unless it's true that Sam Raimi is directing. Raimi and Mandate Pictures paid seven figures for the film rights, so it sounds like he's serious about this. More »
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A young Bruce Campbell talks about growing up with Sam Raimi, surrounded by monstrous heads. It's just one of the many, many delights available in The Incredibly Strange Film Show, a 1988-1989 British series about "psychotronic movies" that's on YouTube. More »
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A documentary crew follows "working class heroes who exterminate alien threats in deep space." Smokers sounds like a dream TV series, even before you hear it's the brainchild of Brian K. Vaughan, co-produced by Sam Raimi. Too bad it's Fox. More »
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After he directs a prequel to Wizard of Oz, Sam Raimi is going an even more awesomely weird direction. He's adapting scifi western comic Earp: Saints for Sinners. More »
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There are many creeptastic moments in Boogeyman, but this is the creepiest. First the murky bath-monster abducts a woman, then a guy gets mummified with cling-wrap. And using a box-cutter to remove the cling-wrap turns out to be ill-advised. Shockingly. More »
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The Spider-Man director and the Iron Man star are teaming up for Disney's Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful. More »
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Given that our first two choices — Peter Jackson, who said he can't, and Guillermo del Toro, who just bailed — are out of the running, who should step up to the plate? Here are five names worth considering. More »
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Last year, we told you about a strange website chronicling thousands of people's dreams about the same man. Though the site was a hoax created by marketers, that isn't stopping Sam Raimi from producing a movie about it. More »
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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of studio execs? Sony let the movie rights lapse on Sam Raimi's dream pulp project The Shadow. Undaunted, Raimi's shopping around the rights to other studios, and possibly recruiting a Twilight director. More »
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Now that McG's 20,000 League Disney origins movie is beached, Sam Raimi's adaptation of the Jules Verne novel has a chance to get made. But this version is missing one important element: the same one lacking in Watchmen. More »
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This is what Sam Raimi left Spider-Man for? Granted, it's hard for us to look at any fedora-wearing night stalker-type and not think "Frank Miller's Spirit, kill it with fire!" Then again, Alec Baldwin's 90's Shadow movie wasn't much better. More »
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The DC Comics crossover that you've been waiting for in Green Lantern isn't happening after all. And we're wondering if this has anything to do with the ongoing superhero director shakeup in Hollywood. Could Raimi be helming Superman's next film? More »
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Last night the Golden Globes allowed for plenty of updates about the new Spider-Man reboot. Rumored director Marc Webb shared what he'd like to see from Spidey, and we found out yet another reason why Spidey was killed. More »
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So Sony have dumped Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire, and plan to reboot the Spider-Man movie franchise by taking Peter Parker back to his high school days to start all over. Sounds like half of a great idea, at least. More »
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We hear Sam Raimi's already picked his replacement director for the Spider-Man movie series: Predators director Nimrod Antal. Which is a much more pleasant rumor than the idea that Robert Pattinson will play Peter Parker. Stop these rumors now! More »
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Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke is reporting that Sony has officially pulled the plug on Spider-Man 4 after Sam Raimi quit the project. Intead, Sony's rebooting the wall-crawler's saga, and sepdning him back to high school. More »
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It's official: Spider-Man 4 is being delayed indefinitely over concerns with the script. And we can't help feeling grateful that Sam Raimi took some time to do Drag Me To Hell and get some perspective. More »
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Ten years ago, superhero films and video-game films were both minor genres. You had your Batman Forever and your Mortal Kombat, but not much else. Both genres blew up in the 2000s, but superhero films won much bigger. For now. More »
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Peter Parker battles supervillains on screen, but they're giving Sam Raimi an off-screen headache as well. Production has reportedly halted on Spider-Man 4 while Raimi and the Sony suits hash out supervillains and dastardly deeds. More »
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The Spider-Man 4 rumors have our bullshit detectors tingling again, but this time it's not about Black Cat. Rumor has it John Malkovich is joining the cast as the leotard wearing, winged Vulture. And he's bringing a Vultress. More »
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It took Peter Jackson's patronage of Neill Blomkamp to make District 9, and now Sam Raimi is getting in on the "mentoring up-and-coming sci-fi filmmakers" act. He's signed up Panic Attack's Federico Alvarez for a big-budget debut movie next year. More »
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Another "She who would be Black Cat" rumor is churning through the Internet. This time, it's Get Smart star Anne Hathaway rumored to be up for the role. More »
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The same things that terrify us can also make us die laughing, and as long as there's been horror, there's been silly horror-comedy. Check out our history of the silliest horror movies of all time. More »
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Dylan Baker is down for another round as Peter Parker's professor Curt Connors in the next Spider-Man movie. So are we finally getting a visit from Dr. Connors' supervillainous alter ego, the Lizard? More »
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Bruce Campbell is definitely done making cameos in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies - but that doesn't mean he's done with the webcrawler. Just the opposite, in fact; Raimi is confirming a "meaty role" for the actor in Spider-Man 4. More »
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Worried that Spider-Man 4 will continue the third outing's overload of villains? Sam Raimi is here to make everything alright by admitting that the Venom/Sandman mash-up didn't work, and promising to do better next time. More »
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With over a year and a half until the announced release date, Sam Raimi has announced that filming for the fourth Spider-Man movie is expected to start next March, and that pre-production is already underway. More »
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Drag Me To Hell director and all around horror mastermind Sam Raimi is taking on Yetis in his new film Refuge. This infusion of new monster blood is exactly what the supernatural scene needs. More »
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Seabiscuit writer/director Gary Ross, who also penned Big and Pleasantville, has been hired to rewrite Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4, replacing edgy playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. So it may be months until we discover who the big bad will be. [Variety] More »
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Movie sequels that don't suck are rare creatures — like flying unicorns — but they do exist. But it's almost impossible to find an example of a third movie in a series that didn't self-immolate. Why is that? More »
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Can you even imagine a Star Trek reboot without all the lens flares? Maybe, if Sam Raimi had taken the director's chair when he was offered it. Meanwhile, J.J. Abrams addresses those rumors that Jack Black will play Harry Mudd. More »
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With slapstick horror flick Drag Me To Hell, Sam "Spider-Man" Raimi returns to the genre that first inspired our love for him. Full of goofy gore, genuine chills, and a plot that plays nicely on our recessionary fears, this is the best summer movie yet. More »
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Even though Spiderman 3 made a boatload of cash there were still many "issues" that irked fans to no end: The dancing, hair flips, or the omelet scene. Now we know director Raimi took the audience's commentary to heart. More »
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Hope you weren't too excited about the prospect of Spider-Man 5 being shot back-to-back with Spider-Man 4. According to Spider-director Sam Raimi, that's not the plan at all... or, if it is, no-one's told him. More »
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Sam Raimi denies responsibility for Spider-Man 3, and you people? You tell him that he's apologizing for the wrong thing. Is there no way for this financially secure, successful, famous movie director to win? More »
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In a recent magazine interview Spider-Man director Sam Raimi passed the buck to Sony for the subpar third installment. Hopefully this means the next Spidey will be free of omelette dances and jazz hands. More »
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