Tag: Sam Raimi
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It’s Time to Give ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Another Chance
Back in 2021, audiences were blown away by the release of Jon Watts’
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Sam Raimi horror, ‘The Watchers’ among new indie shoots approved by SAG-AFTRA
Six further titles added to interim agreement list.SAG-AFTRA has provided interim agreements to a further six independent productions after announcing an initial 39 on Tuesday including Sam Raimi horror Don’t Move and The Watchers, which has been shooting in Ireland.Capstone is financing and Capstone Global handling world sales on Don’t Move, which is scheduled to…
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All the ‘Evil Dead’ Films Are Now Streaming on Max
2023 has been another defining year for the horror genre. Particularly for major franchise returns. At the haunting center of that was Evil Dead in the appropriately titled Evil Dead Rise. The fifth cinematic entry in the series created by genre legend Sam Raimi was a critical and box office smash hit. Now if you’re…
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Oscar-Winning Editor Pietro Scalia to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival
Two-time Oscar-winning editor Pietro Scalia will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Vision Award honoring technical achievements and advancements in film.Scalia, who was born in Sicily but grew up in Switzerland and studied film at UCLA, has won Oscars for “JFK” and “Black Hawk Down.” Over the past two decades he’s collaborated…
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Nick Fury’s First Solo Project Wasn’t ‘Secret Invasion’ — It Was This
Samuel L. Jackson’s beloved super-spy Nick Fury is set to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his first solo storyline with the highly anticipated Secret Invasion, but would you believe us if we told you this wasn’t the first time Nick Fury had his own standalone story? It’s an understandably tough pill to swallow,…
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Keanu Reeves Goes Bad in This Southern Gothic Supernatural Movie
Keanu Reeves has made his way through a stellar career playing nice guy, dog-loving heroes that we like to root for. From Neo in The Matrix to Jack Traven in Speed, and from John Wick to Johnny Utah in Point Break, the titular Constantine, and the legendary Ted “Theodore” Logan – one-half of the lovable…
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‘Spider-Man’ Producer Amy Pascal Didn’t Know if First Movie in 2002 Would Be a Success: ‘I Was Terrified’
Amy Pascal will never forget the world premiere of the first “Spider-Man” movie in 2002.She was the head of Sony at the time, and was so worried that the film wouldn’t succeed she “spent the entire time in the ladies’ room crying,” Pascal recalled at the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” premiere in Los Angeles.“I sure…
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It’s Time We Appreciated the Gwen Stacy That No One Ever Talks About
Gwen Stacy is having a moment, and rightly so. Ghost-Spider is the moment, actually, thanks to her astoundingly successful Marvel Comics run and her increased presence in Sony’s new animated masterpiece Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Before Hailee Steinfeld donned the mask, Emma Stone brought Gwen to vivacious life alongside Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man.…
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This Aspect of ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Changes Everything
Editor’s Note: The following contains light spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Does the world need even more Spider-Man movies? There have now been a grand total of 10 mainline Spider-Man films since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, and we just got through Spider-Man: No Way Home, which advertised itself as a love letter to all things Spider-Man,…
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What Would ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ 3 and 4 Have Been?
Between Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man series and the Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios team-up to incorporate Tom Holland’s Peter Parker into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was, of course, the underdog reboot: The Amazing Spider-Man. In that short-lived film series, Andrew Garfield became the perfect embodiment of Peter Parker. The success of the first film…