Tag: Sam Raimi

  • Star Movies Action announces its superheroes movie line-up

    Star Movies Action announces its superheroes movie line-up

    MUMBAI: This May, Star Movies Action brings you the best of superhero movies to your homes. The channel announced the fantastic lineup of superhero movies including Spiderman 1 & 2, Ghost Rider and Iron Man 3 to be aired on on Sunday  11 May, 2014. The event called  “Superhero Sunday” will have the superhero franchise converging on one platform with super-human action at its definitive level.
     

    Ghost Rider (1pm) – When a motorcycle-riding stuntman offers his soul to Mephistopheles in order to save the life of the one he loves most, he is forced to play host to a powerful supernatural entity whose flaming skull visage strikes fear into the heart of his enemies in this feature-film version of the long-running comic series. By day, Johnny Blaze (actor and comic-book devotee Nicolas Cage) is one of the world’s best-known stuntmen, but when the sun goes down and he is in the presence of evil, the death-defying daredevil bursts into flames to become the indestructible, motorcycle-riding antihero known to the world as the Ghost Rider.

     
    Spider Man (3pm)  –  Spider Man is a 2002 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, a high-school student who when bitten by a genetically modified spider gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.

     
    Spider Man 2 (6pm)- The sequel to the 2002 film Spider-Man, it is the second film in Raimi’s Spider-Man film trilogy. Set two years after the events of Spider-Man, the film focuses on Peter Parker struggling to manage both his personal life and his duties as Spider-Man, while Dr. Otto Octavius (Doctor Octopus) becomes diabolical following a failed experiment and his wife’s death. He uses his mechanical tentacles to threaten and endanger the lives of New York City’s residents. Spider-Man must stop him from annihilating the city.

     
    Iron Man 3 (8pm) – Marvel’s “Iron Man 3” pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
     

    Speaking on the occasion Star India General Manager – English channels Kevin Vaz said, “We have always seen a demand of superhero movies every summer. This year we have a selection of all- time favorite superhero movies on one day consecutively so that our audience can engage with their favorite characters all day long. We have also initiated Superhero Contest for our viewers who get an opportunity to win original Marvel merchandise during the movie broadcasts.”
     

    The channel is giving its viewers a chance to win exclusive Superhero merchandise by watching their favorite superhero movies and answering simple questions via SMS. 100 winners will be given Original Marvel merchandize throughout the day with this contest.
     

    Star Movies Action, India’s biggest action movie channel is dedicated to bringing the best of Action movie line-up from Hollywood. The channel was launched in June 2013 keeping in mind the action movie buffs, making it the first action movie channel in the English movie category in India. The channel has overtaken long-existing channels in the genre beating them by substantial figures.

     
    So be ready on 11th May for some super action with your favorite superheroes. Catch Spiderman 1 & 2, Ghost Rider and Iron Man 3 from 1pm onwards only on Star Movies Action.

  • Sam Raimi remaking Poltergeist for MGM

    Sam Raimi remaking Poltergeist for MGM

    MUMBAI: Sam Raimi, the filmmaker who got his start with Evil Dead, is all set produce the remake of the 1982 film Poltergeist for MGM. The original was made by Steven Spielberg.
     
    It is also clear that Raimi will not direct the remake but will help oversee the search for a helmer. David Lindsay-Abaire, who had earlier worked on Disney‘s Oz: The Great and Powerful for the producer will write the script that focuses on a family whose house was built on a holy site and their daughter is abducted by the ghosts.
     
    The remake of Poltergeist is one of the two horror remakes on which MGM is in active development, the other being Carrie.

    Raimi is currently producing a remake of his Evil Dead that is being directed by Fede Alvarez. The film is scheduled to release on 12 April 12.

  • Sony, FilmDistrict to distribute Evil Dead remake

    Sony, FilmDistrict to distribute Evil Dead remake

    MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and FilmDistrict in association with Ghost House Pictures will distribute the upcoming remake of The Evil Dead to be directed by Fede Alvarex.

    While Sony will handle the worldwide distribution, except for France and the UK, FilmDistrict will handle the distribution in North America.

    The film will be produced by Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead star) and the original director Sam Raimi.

    For 30 years, Sam, Bruce and I have been looking for the right home where we could return the deadites to the big screen,” Tapert has been quoted to have said. “Amy Pascal and Jeff Blake at Sony and Peter Schlessel at FilmDistrict have always been incredible partners who share our passion for great storytelling as well as our obsession for scaring the pants off the audience. Together, we are looking forward to terrorizing a whole new generation,” he added.

    The shooting of the film is expected to star next year.

  • Sony to release ‘Spiderman 3’ in May 2007 in Imax

    Sony to release ‘Spiderman 3’ in May 2007 in Imax

    MUMBAI: Imax and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced that Columbia Pictures’ Spiderman 3 will be simultaneously released at theatres throughout the world and at Imax theatres on 4 May 2007.

    Spiderman 3 will be directed by Sam Raimi, who also directed the first two installments of the franchise. The film will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of Imax.

    In Spiderman 3, Peter Parker has finally managed to strike a balance between his devotion to M.J. and his duties as a superhero. But there is a storm brewing on the horizon. As Spider-Man basks in the public’s adulation for his accomplishments and he is pursued by Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard), who rivals M.J. for his affections, Peter becomes overconfident and starts to neglect the people who care about him most.

    His newfound self-assuredness is jeopardised when he faces the battle of his life against two of the most feared villains ever (Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace), whose unparalleled power and thirst for retribution threaten Peter and everyone he loves