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Blizzard Entertainment announced on July 22, 2009 that Sam Raimi will be directing a film based on the Warcraft universe.
Raimi is set to direct Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, which will be released in 2013 by Walt Disney Pictures.
On December 11, 2006, the website SuperHero Hype reported that director Sam Raimi and Michael Uslan will co-produce a new Shadow film for Columbia Pictures.
Soon after, Alexander Volks himself puts Raimi into a machine to brainwash him, so he will become a new soldier for Project Z.
When he eventually tries to leave with a helicopter sent by CR-2, he already knows Raimi will not leave until he has his body back and he says goodbye.
They will not do anything or get less frightened when Raimi dispossesses them, so they can be possessed again at any time.
Raimi and turn
The real Raimi meets his body's new occupant several times during the game, who in turn tries to deter him at every opportunity.
Raimi and writing
After the good experience of writing the screenplay for a film called Easy Wheels, Sam and his brother Ivan Raimi decided to co-write the film together.
Together, they began writing the script for The Hudsucker Proxy in 1981, and continued during the filming of Crimewave ( 1985 ), and post-production on Blood Simple ( 1985 ), in which Joel and Ethan Coen shared a house with Raimi.
Tom Cruise and Sam Raimi are in the process of creating a movie adaptation of Sleeper with Warner Bros., in which Cruise may star and Brad Inglesby is writing the screenplay.
Raimi and directing
In the 1990s Raimi moved into other genres, directing such films as the western The Quick and the Dead ( starring Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman ), the critically acclaimed crime thriller A Simple Plan ( 1998 ) ( starring Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton ), and the romantic drama For Love of the Game ( 1999 ) ( starring Kevin Costner ).
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.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
However at Comic-Con International 2012, Raimi stated that he was no longer involved in the project, saying “ Actually, they don ’ t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had to move on to another director.
Raimi and over
LoDuca sat down with Raimi and they went over the entire film, scene by scene.
While Dino De Laurentiis gave Raimi and his crew freedom to shoot the movie the way they wanted, Universal Pictures took over during post-production.
Raimi ran into further troubles with the Motion Picture Association of America over the film's rating.
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 ).
The movie has grossed over $ 800 million worldwide, spawning two sequels: Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, both directed by Raimi and both grossing roughly $ 800 million each.
This amazing stop-motion sequence, never since equaled by a single individual, took over four months to complete, and helped to inspire an entire generation of subsequent filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Tim Burton, Sam Raimi and James Cameron, among many others.
Universal Pictures was nervous on having Woo direct a feature, and sent in director Sam Raimi to look over the film's production and to take Woo's place as director if he were to fail.
Raimi has the same control over a host body that he would over his own.
For Raimi, he wanted to emphasize Peyton / Darkman's arc over the course of the film.
Durant's finger collection developed over the Pfarrer and Raimi brothers drafts.
In his review for the Washington Post, Joe Brown wrote, " Though Raimi seems to be trying to restrain himself, his giddily sick sense of humor still pops out all over the place – Darkman is a frenetic funhouse ride that has you laughing and screaming at the same time ".
In 2006, Dynamite Entertainment published a cross over that pitted Darkman against Sam Raimi ’ s Ash Williams of the Evil Dead / Army of Darkness franchise.
Raimi and feature
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 and filmmaker
Raimi turned down the offer, but De Laurentiis continued to be interested in the young filmmaker.
" Stone's presence nicely underscores the genre-bending tactics of Raimi, the cult filmmaker now doing his best to reinvent the B movie in a spirit of self-referential glee.
" Terrence Rafferty of The New Yorker said, " Raimi works from inside the cheerfully violent adolescent-male sensibility of superhero comics, as if there were no higher style for a filmmaker to aspire to, and the absence of condescension is refreshing.
Raimi and .
Army of Darkness, also titled Bruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness, Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or just Evil Dead III, is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi.
The film was written by Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan, produced by Robert Tapert, and stars Bruce Campbell and Embeth Davidtz.
Later, Ash is at the S-Mart store telling a male co-worker ( Ted Raimi ) all about his adventure back in time, and how he could have been king.
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.
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.
Raimi says that Ivan " has a good sense of character " and that he brought more comedy into the script.
Campbell and Tapert would read the script drafts, give Raimi their notes and he would decide which suggestions to keep and which ones to discard.
However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.
Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.
To achieve this effect, Raimi used 60-foot-tall Scotchlite front-projection screens, miniatures and background plates.
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.
* The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi, John Kenneth Muir.
After meeting Sam Raimi in Wylie E. Groves High School, the two became very good friends and started making movies together.
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.
A few years later, Campbell and Raimi got together with family and friends and began work on The Evil Dead.
Raimi wrote, directed and edited, while fellow Michigander Rob Tapert was producer.
On July 13, 2011, Campbell announced that he would be producing the remake of The Evil Dead along with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert.
The show was directed by Eric Gruendemann, and was produced by various people, including Sam Raimi.
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