Mike Sampson

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Favorite Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, Jaws, Boogie Nights, Goodfellas, The Jerk, Raiders of read more the Lost Ark, The Untouchables (recent) 21 Grams, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Anchorman

Likes: German women, the VX-980 hair blower, my chest hair, fighting beach read more crime, my talking black Trans-Am...oh wait, that's David Hasselhoff

Streep, Gandolfini and Hoffman to make movie sure to be nominated for something

Posted 16 years ago

Back in June, rumors started swirling that Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep were set to star in GREAT HOPE SPRINGS, a dramedy about an older couple at the precipice of divorce. Shortly thereafter it became clear that Bridges wasn’t interested...

Cool Videos: Joaquin Phoenix returns to Letterman

Posted 16 years ago

Back in early 2009, Joaquin Phoenix took to the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater for an appearance on “The Late Show With David Letterman” and the result was late night history. Last night, Phoenix returned to visit David Letterman...

Cool Videos: The Jurassic Park Musical

Posted 16 years ago

I pass along this video not because I think “Jurassic Park: The Musical” is exceptionally funny or particularly well put together. I share it with you though because for some of those same reasons, it’s got a certain bit of...

McG and Bryan Singer working on web-only movies?

Posted 16 years ago

While Bryan Singer is busy prepping JACK THE GIANT KILLER and McG is filming THIS MEANS WAR, the two directors are hard at work producing a new series of web shorts for Warner Bros. Looking to replicate the success of...

Goodfellas: 20 years later the cast and crew look back

Posted 16 years ago

“It’s hard to explain why you end up in ERAGON and not GOODFELLAS.” – John Malkovich on turning down the role of Jimmy Conway. GOODFELLAS is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and for a movie that old, it still...

Steven Spielberg inching closer to directing Robopocalypse?

Posted 16 years ago

Besides giving my spell checker fits, the Drew Goddard script for ROBOPOCALYPSE is also causing a frenzy in Hollywood. The CLOVERFIELD writer turned in his adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s upcoming novel and the whole town is atwitter. What’s got...

The Chris Pine reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise gets a new writer

Posted 16 years ago

The Chris Pine reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise that has previously seen Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck starring as the CIA agent extraordinaire, is getting closer to reality with word that Paramount has hired a new writer....

Hackers and pirates take down MPAA site in protest

Posted 16 years ago

This weekend, pirates, hackers and otherwise bored kids on 4chan took down the websites for the MPAA and anti-piracy corporation AiPlex in a series of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks that left the sites down for over 18 hours....

Exclusive: Star Wars Bounty Hunters get immortalized in new Mondo posters!

Posted 16 years ago

If you’ve been keeping up, Mondo Tees has been releasing some beautiful artwork based on the STAR WARS franchise. They’ve wisely stayed away from doing corny stuff like another recreation of a NEW HOPE poster and focused on characters and...

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