Samuel M. Raimi is a multi-talented American filmmaker well known for producing the Evil Dead series that made a cult following, and he is also very well as the director of the box office record-breaking original Spider-Man trilogy (between 2002-07), Xena: Warrior Princess and the famous2009 horror movie Drag Me to Hell. The multi-talented filmmaker is also a writer, an actor, and a talented producer. Some of Raimi’s scary and horrific film is known to have sprung up substantial cult followings and a large follower base.
Raimi’s original camera techniques, which include close up scenes of a fast-moving character or object, wild camera moves, and a direct depiction of violence, have marked his movies from most others and are currently being employed by different filmmakers. Raimi is additionally known always to feature his car in most of the movies in which he directed. With all these major achievements ascribed to one man, one may wonder what his current net worth is and how much he earns from his career currently from film-making. Do not worry anymore, here, you will find all you need to know concerning Sam Raimi’s net worth. But first, let us take a look at how he really got to his current financial state.
How Sam Raimi Found big Success as a Filmmaker
Raimi became associated in filming after his dad bought a movie camera and being motivated and encouraged by his father who also liked making home movies he and a colleague named Bruce Campbell, started making Super 8 movies.
At college in Michigan State, Mr. Raimi, Campbell, and Robert Tapert shot three horror movies, Within the Woods, which grossed over $375,000, Clockwork, a seven-minute horror, and also. It’s Murder!.
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Raimi dropped college to work on The Evil Dead and being funded by investors, friends, and his family he completed the project in the year 1981, which became a cult masterpiece launching Raimi into the spotlight. There was a follow-up series Evil Dead II in 1987 with Raimi experimenting with the extension of humor to the horror, which was a huge success too. Raimi produced his first superhero film Darkman. Even though it was not a major film hit like Evil Dead, Raimi used the given opportunity to improve on his film-making skills as it was similarly his first major studio picture, he was then able to get funding for the third movie of the Evil Dead series which was retitled Army of Darkness.
In the nineties director, Raimi took a walk from the horror style to test the waters with the western film, The Quick and the Dead, the crime thriller movie, A Simple Plan and the romantic drama, For Love of the Game achieving breakthrough in some of them and growing himself further for his directing profession.
The early 2000s marked Raimi excel in his film-making profession, with the production of a blockbuster film about a wall climbing and web-shooting crime fighter, Spider-man, an adjustment of Stan Lee‘s comic book superhero, Spider-Man. The film hit over $800 million worldwide at the box office alone, a major success at the time.
Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 matched up soon enough, with each being a box office smash like the first making Raimi a prevalent figure to associate with film-making. Raimi thought of creating more sequels for Spider-Man, but he could not get a suitable script to suit the series.
Sam Raimi’s Other Successful Gigs
Raimi has served in front of the camera and played roles in lots of movies sometimes in films where he is the director. Some of the movies in which Raimi have starred in include Its Murder!, Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except, Attack of the Helping Hand, Innocent Blood, Shemp Eats the Moon, The Evil Dead, Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter, Hefty’s, Spies Like Us, Evil Dead 2, Maniac Cop, Intruder, Miller’s Crossing, Maniac Cop 2, Army of Darkness, Indian Summer, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Flintstones, Galaxis, 3 Geezers! And The Jungle Book as a sound actor. Raimi has additionally acted roles in Television Series, including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Body Bags, The Stand, and The Shining.
Raimi have similarly directed and produced several other successful television series, some of the Tv series he directed is Rake, M.A.N.T.I.S., and Ash vs. Evil Dead, those that he produced are Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, Hercules and the Circle of Fire Hercules in the Underworld Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur, Spy Game, Young Hercules, American Gothic, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Jack of All Trades, Cleopatra 2525, Legend of the Seeker, 13: Fear Is Real, Zombie Roadkill, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Spartacus: War of the Damned. In late 2013, Raimi directed Oz, the Great and Powerful an adventure prequel to the masterwork, The Wizard of Oz.
Raimi established the production company Renaissance Pictures in 1979 and has penned scripts for the film Easy Wheels and Crimewave (co-written with the Coen brothers).
What is Sam Raimi’s Current Net worth?
According to some sources, Sam Raimi’s net worth is estimated to be worth $60 Million, and this is to be expected given that he is multi-talented and has directed many movies which were box office hits!
Raimi earns around $10 million annually and is one of the most productive directors in Hollywood. He has additionally gotten lots of awards in his career including Best Director Award Sitges – Catalan International Film Festival 1990, Prize of the International Critics’ Jury, Sitges – Catalan International Film Festival 1981, Time-Machine Honorary Award, Cognac Festival du Film Policier 1999,Sitges – Catalan International Film Festival 1992, Golden Raven Award, Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 1993, Critics’ Award, Fantasporto 1993, Special Jury Prize, Best Director Award, Saturn Award 2004, Best Director Award, Empire Award 2004. So far, it is safe to say that Samuel Raimi is living a fulfilled life.
