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Spider-Man 4 Finally Gets Its Villain

Spider-Man 4 Finally Gets Its Villain

Well folks, no need to wonder any longer. Spider-Man 4 director Sam Raimi has reportedly decided on at least one villain to throw at Spider-Man.
Completely blowing out of the water the numerous villains whose names had been tossed around to be Spider-Man’s potential nemesis in the fourth film, Raimi is going with Black Cat as [...]

Dylan Baker Signs on for Spider-Man 4

Dylan Baker Signs on for Spider-Man 4

We may have just taken a step forward in finding out who’ll be Spidey’s nemesis in the upcoming Spider-Man 4.
During a question and answer session following a screening of Trick ‘r Treat, Dylan Baker announced that he had received a call regarding Spider-Man 4 earlier in the day, and that he had agreed to join [...]

Fan Choices for Spider-Man 4 Villain Grab Director’s Attention

Fan Choices for Spider-Man 4 Villain Grab Director’s Attention

With Spider-Man 4 confirmed to be going into production next year, audiences can’t help but wonder which of Marvel’s villains Peter Parker will be faced with next.
Unfortunately, with production not set to start until March 2010, it’s still too early to expect any specifics of the film to be revealed. However, director Sam Raimi has [...]

Raimi Grabs Saving Private Ryan Scribe For Warcraft

Raimi Grabs Saving Private Ryan Scribe For Warcraft

Now this is some nerd news right up my alley: Sam Raimi, the director of the Spiderman films and Army of Darkness, has hired Robert Rodat, the writer of Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot, to draft his World of Warcraft film. On IMDb, it’s simply being called Warcraft, which seems to work just as [...]

Sam Raimi’s Substitute is Spooky

Sam Raimi’s Substitute is Spooky

Sam Raimi’s Ghost House horror genre production label will now branch into a new one — Spooky Pictures, which will focus on delivering horror/thriller films to family audiences. This seems odd coming right off the heels of Disney’s deal with Guillermo Del Toro to create Double Dare You.
The first film to be produced under Spooky [...]

Zombieland Writers Still Drooling Over Venom

Zombieland Writers Still Drooling Over Venom

A film based on Spiderman’s mirror nemesis Venom (seen and poorly depicted in Spiderman 3) is still in the works, alongside the progress being made on Spiderman 4.
Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (also responsible for The Joe Schmo Show) talked to SciFi Wire on Friday about the progress being made on Venom. “We’ve [...]

Your Friendly Neighborhood IMAX

Your Friendly Neighborhood IMAX

I can assume that on May 4th, 2007 no one felt like a bigger dunce than yours truly. While most would say I walk through every single day as a nimrod, it never rang truer than when I dressed up as black costume Spider-Man for the midnight IMAX showing of Spider-Man 3. After feeling like [...]

Bruce Campbell Gets Bigger Spidey Role

Bruce Campbell Gets Bigger Spidey Role

Bruce Campbell, B-movie actor extraordinaire famous for his role as Ash in the Evil Dead films, is the unsung hero in my movie-going life. Those films were what got me interested in the filmmaking craft, and the reason they were so magnetic is because of his ludicrous performance.
And while it was great to see him [...]

Drag Me to Hell Review – Philip’s Take

Drag Me to Hell Review – Philip’s Take

Jump scares have become staple of horror films for a long while now. Usually they crop up when a scene is quiet and sets the mood, only to surprise with a scary image and a loud noise. They’re used to make a woman jump into the arms of the male courting her around on that [...]

R-Rated Movies Are For Wussies: Sam Raimi Talks ‘Drag Me to Hell’

R-Rated Movies Are For Wussies: Sam Raimi Talks ‘Drag Me to Hell’

We heard a giant collective sigh coming from horror fans when Sam Raimi’s new thriller, Drag Me to Hell, landed a PG-13 rating -normally a death blow in the genre. The vaunted director of The Evil Dead and Army of Darkness explained the decision and why fans shouldn’t get hung up on his new movie’s [...]

Spidey 4 Villain…Morbius?

Spidey 4 Villain…Morbius?

Thanks to to the chitter-chatter coming from FearNET to Raimi, he spilled about the possibility of the next Spider-Man villain to go vampire mode. He hinted at the notion that the next villain would be Morbius, a scientist who in turn gets the vampire-like qualities thanks to scientific experiments. If this were to be the [...]

Dragging You All To Hell

Dragging You All To Hell

From Spiderman and Army of Darkness director Sam Raimi pops out the latest creation from the inside of his cranium.
Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell is about a loan officer (Alison Lohman) ordered to evict an old woman from her home who finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse, turning her life into a living hell. [...]