'The Evil Dead' Returns To Drive-In Theaters Across The Country Beginning This Weekend
Sam Raimi's horror classic is returning to drive-in theaters across the country this weekend. Get The Evil Dead drive-in news here.
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'Stranger Things' Throwback Thursday Posters: The Duffer Brothers Never Say Die
The show's Twitter account is rewatching an episode of season one every Thursday and debuting new Stranger Things posters inspired by a 1980s favorite.
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Sam Raimi Is Writing An 'Evil Dead' TV Show [Comic Con 2014]
Details are scarce but Sam Raimi just announced he's doing an Evil Dead TV show with Bruce Campbell. They're in the process of writing it now.
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Watch Sam Raimi's 'Within The Woods', The Precursor To 'The Evil Dead'
This weekend saw the release of Fede Alvarez's The Evil Dead, an even grislier remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 horror flick. But did you know that the so-called "original" was a remake of sorts as well? Granted, Raimi's film wasn't a do-over of a beloved classic -- rather, it was a feature-length retooling of a…
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Here's What Went Down With Angel Shave Club After Shark Tank
Iskra Tsenkova created Angel Shave Club to help empower women. But to go that step further, she needed some extra cash flow
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Remake Bits: Frank Capra's 'State Of The Union' Getting A Remake, 'Evil Dead' And 'Carrie' Reveal New Pics
Remakes of decades-old films are a common sight at the multiplex these days, but even by those standards Identity Films and Flat Penny Films are reaching pretty far back. The two companies have just acquired the rights to Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union, which was adapted into a…
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Remake Bits: 'Robocop', 'Godzilla', 'Evil Dead', 'The Town That Dreaded Sundown'
An especially heart-pounding edition of Remake Bits features updates on Evil Dead, Godzilla, Robocop, and more. After the jump: Frank Darabont talks about the Godzilla reboot Jason Blum is remaking The Town That Dreaded Sundown Listen to ten minutes of the Evil Dead score New pics show the Robocop prototype While we don't have too…
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'Evil Dead' Green Band Trailer: Less Bloody, Less Gory, Still Plenty Scary
In purely practical terms, it's unlikely that Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead remake will live up to the marketing promise that it's "the most terrifying film you will ever experience." But even if it fails to meet that high bar, it's clearly trying its hardest to push that envelope. The first red-band trailer was packed end…
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Can The 'Evil Dead' Remake Possibly Live Up To Its Marketing Promise?
Given that Sam Raimi's original The Evil Dead was billed as "the ultimate experience in grueling terror," the Fede Alvarez-directed remake has big shoes to fill. The first footage from the movie suggested that it goes pretty far out into splatter and gore, especially when compared to the bulk of mainstream horror films that play…
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'The Evil Dead' Red-Band Teaser Trailer: Hating On Remakes? Watch Your Tongue
At the recent New York Comic Con audiences reportedly went crazy for the first footage from Fede Alvarez's remake of Sam Raimi's classic horror debut The Evil Dead. Now you can get an idea of what they were so excited about, as the red-band reaser trailer is online in official form. It's a bloody, splattery…
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The Trailer For 'The Evil Dead' Trailer: Lots Of Green, But No Gore (Yet)
Maybe you were good and decided not to watch the bootleg recording of footage from Fede Alvarez's remake of The Evil Deadthat came out of the New York Comic Con. If so, and you can't wait until tomorrow to see the teaser trailer, here's a bit of footage that will give you a basic idea…
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Let Bruce Campbell Sell You On 'The Evil Dead' Remake
The common reaction to the statement, "They're remaking Sam Raimi's Evil Dead" is disbelief and maybe a scream. Hollywood can remake as many of their own films as they want but the original The Evil Dead was a fully independent production that most people discovered on VHS or cable TV. For those reasons, it's a cult…
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Remake First Looks: Poster And Teaser Recaps For 'Evil Dead' And 'Carrie' Hit The Web, 'Robocop' Bike Revealed
Just because we've already seen and loved the original Carrie, Robocop, and Evil Dead doesn't mean we can't be curious about the remakes. Today we have teaser posters and footage descriptions for Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead and Kimberly Peirce's Carrie, thanks to the Sony panel at New York Comic-Con, and a peek at Alex Murphy's…
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Remake Bits: 'Robocop', 'Carrie', 'Evil Dead', 'The Flamingo Kid', 'Jar City', 'A Bittersweet Life'
Whatever the box office numbers indicate, I'm inclined to believe there are plenty of original ideas left in Hollywood... but you won't find them here, because this post is all about the remakes. After the jump: More Robocop pics; Aimee Garcia joins cast Get first looks at Carrie and Evil Dead at NYCC Allen Hughes…
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Remake Bits: Nate Parker Joins 'Oldboy', 'Carrie' And 'The Evil Dead' Get Synopses, José Padilha Responds To 'Robocop' Rumors
Spike Lee is turning to some familiar faces to help round out the cast of his Oldboy remake. After adding his Do the Right Thing star Samuel L. Jackson a few weeks back, Lee is turning to his Red Hook Summer actor Nate Parker for another supporting role. The up-and-comer's other credits include Arbitrage, Red Tails and…
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Remake Bits: 'Evil Dead,' 'Poltergeist,' 'Ninja Turtles,' And 'Total Recall'
It's a nice slow day for remake news, which means we only have a couple stories instead of a big page full. After the break, Sam Raimi promises a wildly bloody Evil Dead remake, He also says Poltergeist is moving along, if slowly, Delayed Ninja Turtles seems to have had a pretty dire original script,…
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Sequel Bits: 'Avengers 2', 'Iron Man 3', 'Dumb And Dumber 2', 'Machete Kills', 'Fast Six', 'Evil Dead', 'The Hobbit'
With the exception of Machete Kills, which is a sequel to 2010 film, everything in today's Sequel Bits is pretty old school, featuring characters or properties that have been around at least a decade. After the jump: Joss Whedon talks a little bit about The Avengers 2 Bruce Campbell says the new Evil Dead is…
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VOTD: 'Evil Dead' Tribute Animation
Be it movies, music, painting or something else, the best art inspires action in the people who view it. Sometimes that inspiration can lead you to change your life, or maybe simply inspires more art. Daniel Kanemoto is a huge Evil Dead fan and when he saw Olly Moss' 2010 Mondo poster for Sam Raimi's The Evil…
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No-Name Outfit Wants To Make 'Evil Dead 4;' Sam Raimi Sues, As Remake Begins Production
There are strange things going on out in the woods. Not the sort of strange things that happen in Sam Raimi's first two Evil Dead movies. No, these are the things that happen after those films become successful, even iconic. In 1979 Raimi, his producer Robert Tapert, and actor Bruce Campbell formed Renaissance Pictures, which…
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Fede Alvarez's 'Evil Dead' Remake Adds Jessica Lucas And Elizabeth Blackmore
After an early snag that saw Lily Collins landing the lead and then dropping out three weeks later due to scheduling issues, casting on Fede Alvarez's The Evil Dead is now rolling along smoothly. Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood) and Lou Taylor Pucci (Beginners) boarded the project last month, as Jane Levy (Suburgatory) stepped up…
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Casting Bits: Adam Scott In 'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty;' Lou Taylor Pucci In 'Evil Dead' Reboot; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau In 'Oblivion'
The latest actor to sign on to Ben Stiller's remake of the imaginative Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is Adam Scott. He joins stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine and Patton Oswalt in the story of a LIFE magazine photo editor (Stiller) who daydreams his way out of a dull reality. No…
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Shiloh Fernandez Cast In 'The Evil Dead;' Jane Levy In Talks For Lead Role [Updated]
That new version of The Evil Dead is still pulling together a cast, after Lily Collins dropped out of the lead role. Collins would have played a troubled girl who, with her brother and some friends, goes to a remote cabin to detox, where supernatural forces are awakened to threaten the group. With Collins out…
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Lily Collins Will No Longer Play The Lead In 'The Evil Dead'
Just weeks ago Lily Collins (Mirror, Mirror) was announced as the female lead of the new version of The Evil Dead. She was to be the new Ash, essentially, in the Fede Alvarez-directed remake of Sam Raimi's classic horror film. (Calling the character 'the new Ash,' refers to the Evil Dead lead played by Bruce…
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Lily Collins Joins 'The Evil Dead' Remake
The first actual cast member for the remake of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead has been announced: Lily Collins, she of the starring role in Tarsem's Hallmark Channel-looking Snow White film Mirror, Mirror. From what we know of this new version of Raimi's story, it seems like Collins will be playing one of the most…
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Spoilery 'The Evil Dead' Remake Details
Ghost House Pictures, the company run by Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, is getting ready to shoot a remake of The Evil Dead down in New Zealand, with Fede Alvarez directing from a script he co-wrote. (And one that Diablo Cody revised.) We know that the basics of the story are much like those of…
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Sony Will Distribute Fede Alvarez's 'The Evil Dead' Remake
Here's a little bit of movement on that remake of The Evil Dead that Panic Attack director Fede Alvarez will oversee. The movie is based on Sam Raimi's fan-favorite original 1981 film, with a script Alvarez co-wrote with Rodo Sayagues before Diablo Cody did a rewrite. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and FilmDistrict have partnered with…
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Bruce Campbell Won't Cameo In Sam Raimi's 'Oz: The Great And Powerful'
Sam Raimi doesn't have Bruce Campbell to kick around anymore. Not in Oz: The Great and Powerful, at least. Raimi made an early career out of kicking Campbell's ass on a regular basis through the Evil Dead films, and the actor has cameoed in many of Raimi's features that followed. He was set for a…
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