The trick is to do it right, and Raimi finds exactly the right tone here.
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"It's something I really didn't even expect, " said Franco, who starred in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man franchise.
All this is orchestrated by the director, Sam Raimi, with a halting, scattershot approach that verges on panic.
That was Humphreys - as was the original poster for Spider-Man director Sam Raimi's debut movie The Evil Dead.
The remake was produced by the 1983 original's filmmakers, director Sam Raimi and producer Rob Tapert, and its star, Bruce Campbell.
Raimi loves kinetic camerawork and he shows it off in this film.
Once again, Sam Raimi is the director, and once again the plight is one of uncertainty: to swing or not to swing?
This particular version of the life and times of spider-bite victim Peter Parker looks like a more sophisticated take than the Sam Raimi version.
The ascension, years later, of horror gods like Cronenberg and Raimi to critical and mainstream respectability validated all those hours of flipping through Fangoria.
It is expected to be a huge hit for Columbia Pictures and both Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire have already signed up for a sequel.
Actor James Franco, star of Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel, is to make his Broadway debut in the John Steinbeck classic Of Mice and Men.
He was joined at the ceremony by actor Seth Rogen and director Raimi, with whom he is working once again in Oz the Great and Powerful.
Director Raimi, who had to raise the money needed for his original film - borrowing from friends and family, went on to fame and fortune, rebooting the Spider-Man franchise in 2002.
Audiences will, of course, turn out in staggering numbers for "Spider-Man 3, " which, like its two predecessors, was directed by Sam Raimi, and find plenty of special effects to keep them pop-eyed.
Sam Raimi has brought a very good version to the screens, given that Spider-Man was created so long ago its hardly surprising that Raimi has dabbled slightly with Spider-Man, though nothing major.
According to the industry newspaper, New Line had been trying to make another sequel involving Ash, the hero of the Evil Dead movies, but was unable to agree terms with director Sam Raimi.
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Director Sam Raimi's 2002 "Spider-Man" earned both bundles of money and high marks from critics, helping make the Marvel brand -- now owned by Disney -- one of the most prized in Hollywood.
And while the hype for the new Spider-Man film has been huge, there is almost no chance that this reboot (which looks like a rehash of the first Spider-Man film) will be as profitable as the Sam Raimi-directed trilogy.
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The production design and the saturated colors are close enough that this movie really does work as a prequel (albeit in 3-D), and while the CGI is unmistakably 21st century, Raimi's unironic celebration of pure artifice does suggest a continuum of sorts.
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Presumably they were wary of messing with a solid gold classic, but while "Oz" does present a wide target for critics, they shouldn't have worried: Director Sam Raimi ("The Amazing Spider-Man, " "The Evil Dead") takes care to honor the original in spirit and in style.
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