Sam Raimi wanted to make a superhero movie. After gifting the world with his absurdist 1987 horror-comedy masterpiece Evil Dead II, Raimi chased the rights to make movies out of both Batman and The Shadow. Both times, he failed. So he invented his own superhero—one who was really more of a deranged and revenge-crazed…
Various adaptations of Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle have been in the works since 2015, with Lin-Manuel Miranda joining the project to produce and compose its music in 2016 and Showtime picking up a TV prequel in 2017. It’s a new year now, though, so it’s time for another update on the Kingkiller…
Evil Dead II is a genuine masterpiece, as grotesque as it is funny. These two sides of the movie have never felt like a mismatch—as America’s Funniest Home Videos, clear precursor to our Golden Age Of Television, shows, grievous injuries are hilarious (no matter what anyone says). Add ghosts and demons to a grainy VHS…
It’s been 10 years since Spider-Man 3 brought Sam Raimi’s vision of the smartass superhero to an end, but the character’s already been rebooted twice. There were Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man movies, which saw Andrew Garfield play Peter Parker as more of an angry nerd, and now Tom Holland’s donned the primary-colored…
Ever since Dope director Rick Famuyiwa dropped out last year, Warner Bros. has been pretty cagey about who might end up directing Ezra Miller in its standalone Flash movie. Now, though, the studio has started floating some high-profile names to take over the film, with The Hollywood Reporter noting that Robert…
According to Variety, Sam Raimi is “in talks” to “possibly direct” an untitled mystery thriller about the Bermuda Triangle, a mysterious patch of ocean in the Caribbean where regular ship and airplane disappearances are thrillingly embellished or fabricated. No plot details have been announced, so all we know is that…
Who would have thought Ash Vs. Evil Dead would actually be this good? When it was originally announced that director Sam Raimi, star Bruce Campbell, and producer Robert Tapert were returning to their legendary B-movie horror franchise, there was reason to believe the dark magic wouldn’t follow. It had been more than…
After the release of Sam Raimi’s third Evil Dead adventure, Army Of Darkness, fans clamored for the return of Bruce Campbell’s Ash Williams. It took more than 20 years, but the big chin finally returned last year in the first season of Starz’s Ash Vs. Evil Dead. But there were many false starts along the way before…
Ellen Sandweiss will be returning to the Evil Dead cinematic universe this fall. IGN confirms that the actress will be returning to her role as Ash’s sister in the upcoming season of Ash Vs. Evil Dead on Starz. “Ash’s sister makes a tiny little guest appearance, causes a little commotion,” explains executive producer…
In the days before we were rebooting superhero movies every seven and a half months, Tobey Maguire was Spider-Man, and Sam Raimi was the mercurial creative force pulling the strings (or, uh, webs). The team made one really good movie and one really, really good movie before stumbling hard with a franchise-killing…
Ash Vs. Evil Dead creator and former Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has signed on to direct World War 3 (not to be confused with its better-known apocalyptic counterpart, World War Z). Warner Bros. has apparently just closed a deal for Raimi to helm a film adaptation of The Next 100 Years, geopolitical forecaster…
In between executive producing his new series Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Sam Raimi recently managed to find the time to direct a car commercial so clever, Don Draper would have approved. Unfortunately, it’s not for the Oldsmobile Delta 88, but for Chevy’s new Malibu and Cruze.
Sam Raimi is mostly known for his inventive horror films, his two good Spider-Man movies, and his one bad Spider-Man movie, but Deadline says that his next project won’t be Spider-Man or horror-related. Instead, it’ll be a remake of the French crime thriller A Prophet. The original film won the Grand Jury Prize at…
Deadline is reporting that NBC has picked up a new drama from Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and Kevin Sorbo, the team that, once upon a time in the ’90s, helped rule the syndicated TV airwaves with Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Now, 20 years later, Sorbo is going from demigod to man of god, for a series about a guy…
Ash Vs. Evil Dead premieres this Halloween night on Starz. It’s hard to believe Sam Raimi’s schlocky little piece of drive-in trash has lived on for so long and that its original star is still fighting Kandarian demons 30 years on—on basic cable, nonetheless. Audiences have watched the character of Ashley Williams…
Ashley Williams is coming back—again. Yes, the big dummy who returned to the cabin where all his friends were brutally killed by Sumerian demons—with a new girlfriend, also named Linda, in tow—will return for a second season of Ash Vs. Evil Dead on Starz. The first season hasn’t even aired yet—the Sam Raimi-directed…
A show like Ash Vs. Evil Dead can surprise you, in that it can reveal what an old stick-in-the-mud you’ve become about people messing with things you like. Overall, Ash Vs. Evil Dead is very faithful to the Evil Dead mythology: In the first two episodes at least, the Deadites appear virtually unchanged, and are even…
Apparently undaunted by the fact that they’re already set to put together five new hours of slapstick horror for their Starz series Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell have said they’d both be open to making more films in the gore-soaked franchise. The pair were talking at the Television Critic Association…
In an interesting reversal of—oh, let’s say, the Gremlins remake or Beetlejuice sequel we’ve been talking about for years but will probably never happen—Lucy Lawless seems to have willed a Xena: Warrior Princess revival into existence simply by mentioning it. Earlier this morning, we reported that Lawless sounds quite…
Lucy Lawless recently reunited with Xena: Warrior Princess producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert—Lawless’ husband—for their upcoming project Ash Vs. Evil Dead. The Evil Dead TV series also stars Xena alum Bruce Campbell, who played master thief Autolycus in the fantasy series. Now, Lawless wants to take that reunion one…
