1. Sam Raimi is best known for directing the first three films in the Evil Dead franchise and the Spider-Man trilogy.
32 Facts About Sam Raimi
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Sam Raimi directed the superhero movie Darkman, the revisionist western The Quick and the Dead, the neo-noir crime thriller A Simple Plan, the supernatural thriller The Gift, the supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell, the Disney fantasy Oz the Great and Powerful, and the Marvel Studios film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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Sam Raimi's films are known for their highly dynamic visual style, inspired by comic books and slapstick comedy.
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Sam Raimi founded the production companies Renaissance Pictures in 1979 and Ghost House Pictures in 2002.
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Sam Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, to a Conservative Jewish family.
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Sam Raimi is a son of merchants Celia Barbara and Leonard Ronald Raimi.
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Sam Raimi's ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Hungary.
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Sam Raimi's younger brother Ted is an actor, and his older brother Ivan is a screenwriter and physician.
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Sam Raimi's older sister, Andrea Raimi Rubin, is a court reporter.
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Sam Raimi mentioned that Sander first introduced him to Spider-Man, igniting his love for comics.
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Sam Raimi graduated from Groves High School and later went on to attend Michigan State University and later Universita Bocconi in Milan, Italy, where he studied English but left after three semesters to film The Evil Dead.
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Sam Raimi became fascinated with making films when his father brought a movie camera home one day.
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Sam Raimi began to make Super 8 movies with his friend Bruce Campbell, whom he met in 1975.
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Sam Raimi began work on his third film Crimewave, which he co-wrote with the then-unknown Coen brothers, shortly after.
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Sam Raimi then returned to the horror genre with the seminal Evil Dead II.
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Sam Raimi made cameo appearances in Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, and with Joel Coen in Spies Like Us.
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Sam Raimi worked in front of the camera in The Stand as a dimwitted hitman, John Carpenter's Body Bags as a murdered gas station attendant, and Indian Summer in what is perhaps his biggest role as a bumbling assistant to Alan Arkin.
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Sam Raimi produced the entire English-language The Grudge franchise, based on the original Japanese films.
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Blizzard Entertainment announced on July 22,2009, that Sam Raimi would be directing a film adaptation of the Warcraft video game series, but at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con, it was revealed that he would not be the director.
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Sam Raimi will produce the remake of the Danish thriller The Substitute, which will be directed by Scott Derrickson under his new label Spooky Pictures.
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Sam Raimi produced with his company Ghost House Pictures the British thriller flick Burst 3D, directed by Neil Marshall.
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Sam Raimi directed Oz the Great and Powerful, which was released on March 8,2013, by Walt Disney Pictures and grossed $493 million worldwide.
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Sam Raimi said he would not be directing the planned sequel.
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Sam Raimi confirmed plans to write Evil Dead 4 with his brother; it was later specified that this film would be Army of Darkness 2.
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On February 26,2016, it was confirmed that Sam Raimi is attached to direct the upcoming film World War 3 for Warner Bros.
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On February 16,2017, it was reported that Sam Raimi will be directing a thriller about the Bermuda Triangle for Skydance Media, with the script being written by Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard.
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On February 5,2020, it was announced that Sam Raimi was in talks with Marvel Studios to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Sam Raimi confirmed his involvement in April 2020.
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In 2008, Sam Raimi executive produced a syndicated TV series called Legend of the Seeker, based on Terry Goodkind's best-selling The Sword of Truth fantasy series.
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Sam Raimi executive produced the Starz original television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Spartacus: Vengeance and Spartacus: War of the Damned.
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Sam Raimi directed the pilot episode of Ash vs Evil Dead for Starz.
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Since 1993, Sam Raimi has been married to Gillian Greene, daughter of Canadian actor Lorne Greene.
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In 1995, Sam Raimi donated $450 to the campaign of then-Republican Senator Arlen Specter.