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Sam Raimi Is Planning A Movie About The Bermuda Triangle

February 18, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Sam Raimi has been taking his time between movies. After three Spider-man films in five years between 2002 and 2007, we’ve only had Drag Me To Hell and Oz the Great and Powerful in the last decade. While he has several things in the works, he’s just added another as THR reports that he’s teaming up with Skydance Productions for a movie about the Bermuda Triangle.

There’s no details about the plot of the film, but it will inevitably revolve around the area between Bermuda, Miami and Puerto Rico, where legend says ships, planes and anything else that enters it can disappear even in calm seas. It’s not the only film about the supposed phenomenon in the works, as Universal and Warner Bros. are also working on Bermuda Triangle movies.

Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard wrote the script for the movie Raimi is attached to, which is described as a mystery thriller. The film has been in the works for several years, with Skydance hoping that Raimi’s involvement will finally get it made.

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Sam Raimi Is Getting Ready To Start World War 3

February 28, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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It seems a bit extreme for a film director to want to start World War 3, but that’s just what Sam Raimi is doing. Variety reports that he’s set to helm a movie by that name, which he’s currently developing.

Perhaps most worryingly for a film with that title is that it’s based on a non-fiction source, George Friedman’s book ‘The Next 100 Years’. The sysnopsis describes it as, ‘A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists.

I’n his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR — the preeminent private intelligence and forecasting firm — focuses on what he knows best, the future. Positing that civilization is at the dawn of a new era, he offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century all based on his own thorough analysis and research. For example, The U.S.-Jihadist war will be replaced by a new cold war with Russia; China’s role as a world power will diminish; Mexico will become an important force on the geopolitical stage; and new technologies and cultural trends will radically alter the way we live (and fight wars). Riveting reading from first to last, “The Next 100 Years” is a fascinating exploration of what the future holds for all of us.’

Of course, whether any of that will actually happen is impossible to know, but it certainly gives Raimi an interesting sandbox to play in.

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Sam Raimi Takes On Love May Fail With Bi Screenwriter Mike White

October 15, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

sam-raimiWe haven’t heard too much from Sam Raimi since Oz The Great And Powerful, but now he’s plotting his next move, as Deadline reports that he’s in negotiations to make the dramatic thriller Love May Fail.

The always dependable Mike White (The Good Girl, School Of Rock) has written the screenplay, based on Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick’s novel. The story follows ‘a woman who is coming off a demoralizing ending to her marriage to a cheating husband returns to her hometown determined to clear the name of her favorite English teacher, whose career was ended forcibly after a classroom scandal.’

The novel isn’t due to be published until June 2015, so Raimi is certainly getting in early and obviously believes this is a story worth turning into a movie.

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DIRECTORS: Mike White, Sam Raimi  

Sam Raimi Is Going To The Outpost For An Afghanistan War Drama

June 27, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

sam-raimiSam Raimi may be one of the top directors in Hollywood, but he doesn’t exactly overwhelm us with movies. Indeed he’s only helmed 13 movies since The Evil Dead in 1981. Since Oz The Great And Powerful he’s been mulling over various possibilities, and now he’s added one more, as Deadline reports he’s signed up to produce and possibly direct The Outpost.

The film will be an adaptation of Jake Tapper’s book, The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, which tells the real-life story of 53 American soldiers stationed at Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan. On the morning of October 3rd, 2009, they were attacked by over 400 Taliban fighter, but despite being heavily outnumbered, they managed to prevail.

Raimi will now oversee script development with writers Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Fighter) coming up with the actual screenplay.

The director commented, “The Outpost is an epic story of bravery, courage, and sacrifice of our men in uniform, and is absolutely a picture meant for the big screen. I’m honored to be a part of it.”

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Evil Dead II – Special Edition (Blu-ray)

April 22, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Ted Raimi
Director: Sam Raimi
Running Time: 84 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: April 15th 2013

With a remake of Evil Dead in cinemas, Studiocanal has dusted off Sami Raimi’s 1987 movie Evil Dead II for a spruced up Blu-ray re-release, with some new extras added in. There’s no doubt the film is a horror classic. While less grossly gory than the original Evil Dead (although no slouch on the gore front), it’s much funnier and yet still manages to be original, strange and scary. [Read more…]

Oz The Great And Powerful (Cinema)

March 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff
Director: Sam Raimi
Running Time: 140 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: March 8th 2013

After much fanfare and a marketing blitz, Oz The Great And Powerful is finally here. So is it worth going down the yellow brick road on Sam Raimi’s trip to L. Frank Baum’s magical world? Are the Friends Of Oscar as good as the Friends Of Dorothy? The answer is yes, even if the film is far from perfect.

James Franco is Oscar Diggs, a Kansan sideshow magician and huckster who sells his illusions as real magic. He has an eye for the ladies and doesn’t care that’s he’s left a thousand broken hearts behind him, but things catch up to him when the circus strongman realises Oscar has been dallying with his gal. Oscar escapes in his hot air balloon (goodness knows why he was one, but he does), which then gets caught up in a twister and transports him all the way to Oz. [Read more…]

Oz: The Great and Powerful Sequel Already In The Works

March 8, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

oz-great-powerful-poster3Disney must have a fair amount of confidence in Oz The Great And Powerful, as the studio already has a sequel in the works. Variety reports that Mitchell Kapner, who co-wrote the first screenplay with David Lindsay-Abaire, has been hired to pen the follow-up.

It’s early days and nothing has been released about the story, although it will presumably follow Oscar Digg’s further adventures in Oz, between the first movie and the arrival of Dorothy. There are still a few legal issues they’ll have to get around through, as while L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is in the public domain, anything specifically added by MGM for the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is out of bounds (as it’s owned by them), such as Dorothy’s ruby slippers.

Mitchell Kapner was hired to work on the sequel script months ago, although Disney hasn’t commented on the sequel plans at this time.

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ACTORS: James Franco  DIRECTORS: Sam Raimi  FILMS: Oz The Great And Powerful  

Poltergeist Remake Gets Monster House Director Gil Kenan

March 7, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

poltergeist-dvd-coverEven before MGM’s bankruptcy there was talk of remaking Poltergeist, but it’s been moving very slowly through development. Now it’s got a little more inpetus, as Deadline reports that MGM has brought on director Gil Kenan (Monster House, City of Ember) to helm the movie.

Last November Sam Raimi signed up to producer, with David Lindsay-Abaire rewriting an earlier screenplay by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. The original 1982 Poltergeist, which starred Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams and Dominique Dunne, centered on a family living in a lovely new house, who are haunted by an evil presence that eventually takes their daughter into another realm. It’s not known if the remake will deviate from the original story, although it will likely be set in present day.

At the moment it hasn’t been revealed when it will shoot.

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DIRECTORS: Gil Kenan, Sam Raimi  FILMS: Poltergeist  

Is Sam Raimi Planning To Write Evil Dead 4 This Summer?

March 2, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

sam-raimiWith a high-profile remake on the way, many fans of Evil Dead had presumed that meant we’d never get another instalment of Sam Raimi’s original series. However Sam doesn’t seem to think the do-over should stop him from making an Evil Dead 4, as Bleeding Cool reports he may be planning the script for the movie.

While at a press event, The Oz: The Great and Powerful filmmaker said, “I would love to make Evil Dead 4. My brother and I plan to work on the script this summer.”

Presumably the brother is Ivan Raimi, who co-wrote the screenplays for Army Of Darkness, Darkman, and Drag Me to Hell. His other brother, Ted Raimi is better known as an actor, and while he has written a few things, it’s Ivan who’s more of a writer.

Of course, Raimi making a comment at a press event is a long way from the film being a reality. Indeed the director has already been distancing himself from the comments, telling HeyUGuys he was just appeasing fans with his comment, while also hinting that while there’s nothing definite, it’s not impossible.

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Final Oz The Great & Powerful Trailer Arrives – Heading into the wonderful world

March 1, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


It’s just a week until Oz The Great And Powerful hits cinemas on March 8th, and in case people weren’t excited enough, Disney has released a final trailer showing off the excitement and incredible visuals of Sam Raimi’s movie.

Here’s the official synopsis: ‘Disney’s fantastical adventure “Oz The Great and Powerful,” directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved wizard character. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting.

‘Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself not only into the great wizard but into a better man as well.’

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ACTORS: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis  DIRECTORS: Sam Raimi  FILMS: Oz The Great And Powerful  
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