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Box Office: 'Oz The Great And Powerful' Builds A Money Brick Road With Massive Opening
While the next few weeks will determine if “Oz the Great and Powerful” meets or succeeds expectations, it's off to a good start. Disney insiders were long forecasting an $80 million plus take for its first three days, and they pretty much hit that figure dead on (but didn't exceed it wildly as some ...
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Sam Raimi Won't Direct 'Oz The Great & Powerful' Sequel; Finally Saw The 'Spider-Man' Remake
Maybe it's kind of a restlessness we don't understand. After a rather pitiable box-office this past winter, one of the worst on record, "Oz The Great And Powerful," of all things, is somehow poised to make around $70 million this weekend. The expensive "Jack The Giant Slayer" movie proved not all fa...
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SXSW Review: Why Fede Alvarez's 'Evil Dead' Remake Can't Match the Fun of the Originals
The first two entries in Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" trilogy -- released in 1981 and 1987, respectively -- delivered such delightfully inventive takes on the horror genre that no remake could possibly match their originality. Respectably enough, with his snazzy redressing of the first movie, director Fe...
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Division Division: 'Oz: The Great and Powerful'
The most divisive movie of the week is the new film from director Sam Raimi.
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Immersed in Movies: Puppet Cams, China Girl and VFX Wizardry in 'Oz the Great and Powerful'
Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi both embraced lighter, kid-friendlier fables with "Jack the Giant Slayer" and "Oz the Great and Powerful," tapping into their inner child while pushing virtual production and 3-D with theatrical flair. While the results have been mixed (it's hard to pull off innocence afte...
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The Wizard of Oz Vs. Army of Darkness
Sam Raimi's new film is a fairly faithful prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" and a kind of insanely faithful kid-friendly remake of the third "Evil Dead" movie.
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Classical Filmmaking: The Theme That Drives All of Sam Raimi's Movies
Sam Raimi has two trademarks that pop up over and over again in his work -- and more often than not, one represents the other.
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Risk-Taking James Franco In Risk-Free 'Oz the Great and Powerful'
Flying moneys, good. Flying baboons, bad. That's one difference between the classic, 1939 'Wizard of Oz' and 'Oz the Great and Powerful,' Disney's pricey new extravaganza with James Franco as the pre-wizard carnival con man. More important: don’t go on comparing them. The new 'Oz' is loaded ...
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Review: Likable 'Oz the Great and Powerful' Is Overstuffed With Digital Wizardry
Disney’s “Oz the Great and Powerful” is a $190-million prequel to the turn-of-the-century L. Frank Baum 14-book series. Directed by Sam Raimi, the film is bloated in length and overstuffed with digital 3-D wizardry, yet somehow manages to be a horse of a pleasing -- if not particularly different -- ...
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Sam Raimi Explains Why He Left Both 'Spider-Man 4' & 'World Of Warcraft'
It seems as if after "Spider-Man 3," all the king's horses and all the king's men just couldn't put Spidey back together again. Famously, series architect Sam Raimi tried with an attempt at a fourth film featuring John Malkovich as the Vulture, with Anne Hathaway in an unspecified role believed to b...
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