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Style Or Substance? 20 Visually Stunning Movies That Go For Broke
No matter what you think of Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," opening this week in ultra-luxurious 3D, one thing's for sure – it looks pretty spectacular. Filled with lovingly crafted costumes, opulent sets, and computer generated imagery that makes ragtime New York seem like a quasi-futuristic met...
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CinemaCon: Directors Raimi, Stone and Del Toro Argue Horror, Provoking vs. Pleasing Audiences, Seeing Red
At CinemaCon last year the Filmmaker Forum included Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee, while this year directors Oliver Stone, Guillermo del Toro and Sam Raimi submitted to questioning by moderator Elvis Mitchell. Not surprisingly, all three reveal very different takes on how to please audiences--or wheth...
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The New 'Evil Dead' is Better Than the Old One
Why do some people love "Evil Dead II" for improving on the original and hate "Evil Dead" for the same reason?
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Watch: Sam Raimi's Resurrected Short Film Precursor to the Original 'Evil Dead'
As Sam Raimi has long hence entered the big-studio realm and we brace ourselves for Fede Alvarez's upcoming revamp of "The Evil Dead," a rarely seen early-80s short film by Raimi has resurrected online.
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Review: 'Evil Dead' Is A Grim, Humorless, Ultraviolent Update Of A Horror Classic
When the "Evil Dead" remake was first announced, everyone pretty much assumed that it was going to suck. This was something that star/producer Bruce Campbell acknowledged during the Q&A at the film's SXSW World Premiere last month. But after years of being assaulted with fan questions about a fourth...
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The 5 Best & 5 Worst Horror Movie Remakes
This weekend the new, gore-soaked remake of Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead" (review here) chainsaws its way into theaters nationwide. A bold reimagining that jettisons much of the original film's humor, replacing it with an unrelenting bleakness, it's the kind of movie that sometimes feels less like an ...
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Watch: 'Oz the Great and Powerful' Opening Credit Sequence, Where All the World's a Stage
As Sam Raimi's "Oz the Great and Powerful" makes its way towards $200 million at the domestic box office (and $400 million worldwide), check out the film's inventive opening credit sequence, which features CG pop-up cutouts that progressively become trippier and trippier.
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Watch: A Demon Warns of Bad Things to Come in Early Scene From 'Evil Dead' Remake
Fede Alvarez's studio remake of Sam Raimi's horror cult-classic "Evil Dead" has gotten mixed of reviews with most veering on the positive side. While the 1981 original is famed for its innovative blend of slapstick and suspense, Alvarez's "Evil Dead," which premiered at the opening night of SXSW, dr...
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Sam Raimi To Direct Fox Dramedy Pilot 'Rake' Starring Greg Kinnear
Over the past few years, as Hollywood has drifted more and more towards $200-million-budgeted tentpoles, more filmmakers and actors have run into the warm embrace of television networks. The latest actor to make the move to a series? Greg Kinnear, and he’ll be getting some help from Sam Raimi.
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Sam Raimi Will Direct Greg Kinnear in Fox's Pilot 'Rake'
FX announced last week that Ang Lee would be directing the pilot for its new project "Tyrant," and now sister network Fox has lined up its own high profile filmmaker to helm the pilot for "Rake."
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