Tom Cruise and Spider-Man trilogy director Sam Raimi are setting up Sleeper at Warner Bros, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sleeper was a comic book series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips and published by DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint.
Sleeper centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to…
Sam Raimi, best known for his Spider-Man movies, has just become the next director to get behind an adaptation of literary master Dennis Lehane (Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone) The book rights to The Given Day were acquired by Columbia Pictures.
The Given Day…
Spider-man trilogy director Sam Raimi spoke to SHH about Spider-Man 4. Would come back to direct? Has he read the script? And how does he feel about recasting?
“James Vanderbilt is writing the script and I’m excited to read it. I think it’s going to be done in a few months,” Raimi told us, adding, “I’m hoping it’s as great as our…
Cinematical got a rather interesting scoop from a source who says that Spiderman 4 and 5 may end up being filmed at the same time.
Apparently, in the last few weeks, James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) has turned in a working draft of Spider-Man 4 to the studio. However, according to our source, “his story arc has encompassed two films, making…
Sam Raimi has directed a couple of horror movies in the past such as Evil Dead 1 and 2, The Gift and Army Of Darkness and now he is set to direct Drag Me to Hell. Raimi will be returning to the horror genre after spending the last few years directing a small trilogy known as Spiderman. Oscar nominated actress Ellen Page has joined to lead the cast, according to Variety. Ellen has recently stared in Juno and played Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) in X-Men 3. The film is described as…
Zodiac screenwriter James Vanderbilt recently spoke to BlogTalkRadio.com about his work on the next Spiderman film. There is no word yet if Sam Raimi will return, along with Tobey Maguire or Kirsten Dunst. Some people want a whole new trilogy with whole new actors and direction, where as some want to continue what we already have. For me it is the latter. It…
When I first read about this I nearly wet myself…with excitement. Over the past year or two people having been wondering whether Peter Jackson would return to his Middle Earth roots and direct The Hobbit. The only thing stopping this wonderful event is a rather big legal battle between Jackson and New Line Cinema over profits for Fellowship Of The Ring. I don’t know the ins and out of it but something tells me they both didn’t expect the film to make $871 million worldwide, so Jackson wants what a bit of what he deserves…moneywise.
New Lines Bob Shaye went as
Despite the image, Hulk will not be battling Spiderman, however that would be kinda cool. The people in the know regarding these two films have spoken. Leterrier has spoke about the villains in upcoming The Incredible Hulk, and Sam Raimi has spoke about his involvement in the next Spidey outing, and where it is heading. Here they are:
From Wizard
“Obviously, General Ross is the villain, so he had to be in it,” added Leterrier. “But the Abomination, Emil Blonsky, was who Marvel wanted to put in this chapter—the first chapter
What I gathered from Spiderman 3’s release was that making huge movies really takes it out of Sam Raimi. He was under a lot of pressure from the studio and the fans to produce a quality third instalment. Some loved it, some thought too much was crammed into one film . Overall I thought it was great, apart from the dancing, what the hell was that?
Wizard got a chance to talk to the man himself.
Looking back, you’ve worked on Spider-Man in some way for nearly eight years. Has the excitement stayed with you?
RAIMI: I’m just as
Back in August 2003, a little movie called Freddy vs Jason came out. For the first time in years, these two horror icons stood face to face in the ultimate battle royale. The movie cost about $25 million to produce, but made New Line Cinema well over $115 million in worldwide gross. Of course, as soon as the film was a success, rumblings of a sequel began. The only logical way to go for the next installment would be to bring in yet another horror icon: none other than Ashley J. Williams of Evil Dead.
Jeff Katz was brought in to
