After meeting Sam Raimi in Wylie E. Groves High School, the two became very good friends and started making movies together.

Raimi became fascinated with making films when his father brought a movie camera home one day and he began to make Super 8 movies with childhood friend Bruce Campbell.

Through family, friends, and a network of investors Raimi was able to finance production of the highly successful horror film The Evil Dead ( 1981 ) which became a cult hit and effectively launched Raimi's career.

Ted Raimi became a core member of the cast from the second season as Joxer.

At this point, according to Raimi, " it became the story of a man who had lost his face and had to take on other faces, a man who battled criminals using this power ".

The more Raimi worked, the more Darkman became a crime-fighting figure, " a non-superpowered man who, here, is a hideous thing who fights crime.

As he became that hideous thing, it became more like The Phantom of the Opera, the creature who wants the girl but who was too much of a beast to have her ," Raimi said.

Raimi was forced to wear a full-body, latex costume, crouch in a small hole in the floor acting as a " cellar ", or on one day, both.

The film was written by Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan, produced by Robert Tapert, and stars Bruce Campbell and Embeth Davidtz.

This was used after Sam Raimi was unable to use his original title " The Medieval Dead.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

Universal, however, wanted a PG-13 rating, so Raimi made a few cuts and was still stuck with the MPAA's R rating.

Campbell and Raimi collaborated on a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead film, titled Within the Woods, which was initially used to attract investors.

Raimi wrote, directed and edited, while fellow Michigander Rob Tapert was producer.

The show was directed by Eric Gruendemann, and was produced by various people, including Sam Raimi.

Work on a script for a further film has started although it was announced on July 13, 2011 that Raimi and Campbell would now shift focus to a remake of the original film.

The limited edition Blu-ray with a newly restored picture was released on August 31, 2010 in the United States, featuring two discs with audio commentary with writer / director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce Campbell.

With the approval of both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, a musical version of the film was staged, enjoying a successful workshop in Toronto and performances at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2004.

The film was written by Raimi and Scott Spiegel, produced by Rob Tapert and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams.

After Crimewave was released to little audience or critical acclaim, Raimi and Tapert, knowing that another flop would further stall their already lagging careers, took Shapiro up on his offer.

Spiegel and Raimi wrote most of the film in their house in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, where they were living with the aforementioned Coen brothers, as well as actors Frances McDormand, Kathy Bates, and Holly Hunter ( Hunter was the primary inspiration for the Bobby Jo character ).

The film's production was not nearly as chaotic or strange as the production of the original, largely because of Raimi, Tapert and Campbell's additional film making experience.

The film was directed by Sam Raimi.

In January 2010 it was announced that the Spider-Man franchise would be restarted, therefore dropping Dunst, Maguire, and Raimi from the film series.

Raimi, the fourth of five children, was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, and grew up in Birmingham, Michigan.

Raimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man ( 2002 ), which was adapted from the comic book series of the same name.

Prior to directing the Spider-Man films, Raimi lobbied to direct Batman Forever when Tim Burton was ousted from the director's chair, but was rejected in favor of Joel Schumacher, whose reputation at the time outshone Raimi's.

Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

LoDuca sat down with Raimi and they went over the entire film, scene by scene.

Raimi ran into further troubles with the Motion Picture Association of America over the film's rating.

A few years later, Campbell and Raimi got together with family and friends and began work on The Evil Dead.

On July 13, 2011, Campbell announced that he would be producing the remake of The Evil Dead along with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert.

He later recorded an audio play adaptation of Make Love with fellow Michigan actors including longtime collaborator Ted Raimi.

Raimi and Co. managed to secure a shooting budget of less than $ 375, 000 and with the cast and crew, headed for a wilderness cabin in the woods near Morristown, Tennessee.

* Ted Raimi as Possessed Henrietta, Annie's possessed mother who uses her memories to lure her in order to kill her and everybody else, but gets killed when Ash stabs her through the chest with his chainsaw.

Raimi contacted his old friend Scott Spiegel, who had collaborated with Campbell and others on the Super-8 films they had produced during their childhood in Michigan.

At the film's wrap party, the crew held a talent contest, where Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell sang The Byrds ' " Eight Miles High ", with Nicotero on guitar.

In a recent interview with PC Magazine, Valve CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell said that they wanted to make a Half-Life feature film themselves, rather than hand it off to a big-name director like Sam Raimi, and that their recent Team Fortress 2 " Meet The Team " machinima shorts were experiments in doing just that.

Raimi returned to the horror genre with the seminal Evil Dead II ( which added slapstick humor to the over the top horror, showcasing his love of the Three Stooges ).

Raimi frequently collaborates with Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning when Joel was one of the editors of Evil Dead.

The Coens co-wrote Crimewave and The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi in the mid-1980s ( though Hudsucker was not produced for almost a decade ).

Raimi made cameo appearances in Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, and with Joel Coen in Spies Like Us.

The Coen brothers gave Raimi advice on shooting in snow for A Simple Plan, based on their experiences with Fargo.