Sam Raimi

American filmmaker

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2023 Produced multiple films including '65' by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, 'Boy Kills World' by Moritz Mohr, and served as executive producer for 'Evil Dead Rise' directed by Lee Cronin.
2023 Produced multiple films including '65' by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, 'Boy Kills World' by Moritz Mohr, and served as executive producer for 'Evil Dead Rise' directed by Lee Cronin.
September 19 2023 Marc Webb was announced as the new director for the Bermuda Triangle film, with plans to hire new writers after the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.
2022 Directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel Studios, continuing his work in the superhero genre.
2022 Produced 'Umma' directed by Iris K. Shim.
2022 Produced 'Umma' directed by Iris K. Shim.
2022 Directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel Studios, continuing his work in the superhero genre.
2021 Produced multiple films including 'The Unholy' by Evan Spiliotopoulos, 'Don't Breathe 2' by Rodo Sayagues, and 'Nightbooks' by David Yarovesky.
2021 Produced multiple films including 'The Unholy' by Evan Spiliotopoulos, 'Don't Breathe 2' by Rodo Sayagues, and 'Nightbooks' by David Yarovesky.
2020 Produced 'The Grudge' directed by Nicolas Pesce.
2020 Produced 'The Grudge' directed by Nicolas Pesce.
July 3 2020 'The Outpost' film was released, directed by Rod Lurie with no involvement from Sam Raimi, after Raimi decided he wasn't the right person to direct the project.
April 2020 Confirmed his involvement in directing 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' for Marvel Studios, marking his return to the superhero genre after 15 years.
April 2020 Confirmed his involvement in directing 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' for Marvel Studios, marking his return to the superhero genre after 15 years.
March 4 2020 Skydance replaced Sam Raimi with Scott Derrickson for the Bermuda Triangle movie project.
2019 Produced 'Crawl' directed by Alexandre Aja.
2019 Produced 'Crawl' directed by Alexandre Aja.
December 2018 Raimi was no longer involved with The Kingkiller Chronicle film project.
January 29 2018 Sam Raimi was announced as the director for the film adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle's first book, The Name of the Wind, with Patrick Rothfuss and Lin-Manuel Miranda as executive producers.
2017 Sam Raimi was associated with 'The Black Ghiandola' film, where he served as a director
2017 Sam Raimi was associated with 'The Black Ghiandola' film, where he served as a director
August 21 2017 NBC cancels its plans for the Xena reboot, with NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke noting the current incarnation is 'dead'.
July 17 2017 Raimi is announced as producer for a television series based on the Tanis podcast, to be developed with Terry Miles and Lee Shipman for Universal Cable Productions.
April 2017 Javier Grillo-Marxuach announces he has left the Xena reboot project due to creative differences.
February 16 2017 Sam Raimi was initially reported to direct a thriller about the Bermuda Triangle for Skydance Media, with a script by Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard.
2016 Produced 'Don't Breathe' directed by Fede Álvarez.
2016 Sam Raimi provided voice acting for a Giant Squirrel character in 'The Jungle Book'
2016 Sam Raimi provided voice acting for a Giant Squirrel character in 'The Jungle Book'
2016 Produced 'Don't Breathe' directed by Fede Álvarez.
2016 Warcraft film was released, directed by Duncan Jones instead of Raimi
June 3 2016 Raimi is confirmed to be attached to produce and potentially direct Stormfall for Warner Bros, with writers still being sought.
February 26 2016 Sam Raimi was confirmed to direct the film World War 3 for Warner Bros., based on potential future scenarios from George Friedman's book The Next 100 Years. No further developments were announced after this initial attachment.
January 22 2016 Deadline Hollywood reported that Sam Raimi was in negotiations to direct a remake of the film 'A Prophet' for Sony, with Neal H. Moritz and Tobe Jaffe as producers and Dennis Lehane writing the script. The project later transformed into 'American Son' directed by Rapman and moved to Paramount Players.
2015 Produced 'Poltergeist' directed by Gil Kenan.
2015 Produced 'Poltergeist' directed by Gil Kenan.
December 7 2015 NBC orders Miracle Man, a series produced by Raimi, with Robert Eisele as writer and Kevin Sorbo starring as Jason Greene.
November 2015 Raimi was reported to no longer be directing 'Love May Fail', with TriStar Pictures taking over the project and Emma Stone set to star in the lead role.
October 2015 Empire announces Corin Hardy will direct Refuge, a project produced by Raimi, with a script by Tom De Ville.
July 20 2015 NBC begins developing a Xena reboot series with Raimi and Tapert as executive producers, initially planned for a 2016 debut.
2014 Produced 'Murder of a Cat' directed by Gillian Greene.
2014 Produced 'Murder of a Cat' directed by Gillian Greene.
October 2014 Raimi is set to produce a film adaptation of The Blade Itself, with Aaron Stockard writing the script and Tobey Maguire set to star and produce.
October 2014 Sam Raimi was in talks to direct the film adaptation of Matthew Quick's book 'Love May Fail' for Columbia Pictures, based on a script by Mike White.
June 26 2014 Sam Raimi was reported to be involved in producing and developing a script for 'The Outpost', an adaptation of Jake Tapper's book, with potential plans to direct the film.
March 6 2014 IGN reports that Raimi is attached to produce a film adaptation of the video game The Last of Us, with Neil Druckmann set to write the script.
January 23 2014 Mike Newell is announced as the director for 'The Day of the Triffids' remake, with Neil Cross writing the script.
2013 Sam Raimi appeared in the film '3 Geezers!' in a role playing himself named Sam
2013 Sam Raimi directed the fantasy film 'Oz the Great and Powerful', marking his return to big-budget fantasy filmmaking after his Spider-Man trilogy.
2013 Sam Raimi appeared in the film '3 Geezers!' in a role playing himself named Sam
2013 Sam Raimi directed the fantasy film 'Oz the Great and Powerful', marking his return to big-budget fantasy filmmaking after his Spider-Man trilogy.

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