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

John August to write Monsterpocalypse for Tim Burton

Posted 16 years ago

I’m not saying that I lost faith in Tim Burton after ALICE IN WONDERLAND but…OK, I am saying I lost faith in Tim Burton. ALICE was just so bad in every possible way that I can’t believe this is the...

F. Gary Gray to direct Willis and Foxx in Kane and Lynch

Posted 16 years ago

Newcomer Simon Crane was originally scheduled to make his feature directorial debut on KANE & LYNCH, the adaptation of the popular video game with Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx starring as the titular characters. But somewhere along the way, those...

Mr. T not a fan of the new A-Team movie

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE – Mr. T, as it turns out, has not seen THE A-TEAM and certainly did not say any of the quotes below. Turns out someone just made that shit up (which seems highly unethical at best). Whether Mr. T...

John McClane to work 24/7 in new Die Hard?

Posted 16 years ago

Despite LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD being anything but a DIE HARD film, Bruce Willis and Fox are still moving ahead on a fifth film in the series. I’d think that, like INDIANA JONES 4, it would be enough to...

Chris Mintz-Plasse to star as Evil Ed in new Fright Night

Posted 16 years ago

The FRIGHT NIGHT remake set up at DreamWorks seemed to be trucking along nicely with relatively little backlash until recently. First there was the news that Peter Vincent, who in the original was a an aging horror TV show host,...

Excited for the Voltron film? Don’t be, it’s been scrapped

Posted 16 years ago

Just last October we ran an article titled “Voltron movie lives” and it indicated that the popular 80s toy/cartoon franchise was getting the movie treatment with a lucrative new deal. Yeah, not so much. Today it was announced that VOLTRON...

Cool Videos: 1979 Alien toy commercial

Posted 16 years ago

ALIEN was released in 1979 with an R-rating for “strong violence, gore and language” but that didn’t stop toymaker Kenner from trying to market some action figures. The original toy was an 18-inch tall alien with a glow-in-the-dark skull and...

Gordon-Levitt finds a leading lady for Premium Rush

Posted 16 years ago

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is currently in New York City training with a bicycle for his upcoming starring role in the Sony Pictures thriller PREMIUM RUSH. He’ll star as a bike messenger who’s delivering a package than a crooked cop is desperate...

Get a jump on Tom Cruise as Knight and Day opens early

Posted 16 years ago

KNIGHT & DAY was a film that could’ve easily been dismissed (Tom Cruise playing yet another puckish spy?) but along the way, the trailers have impressed and the word of mouth has actually given the film a boost. Fox has...

Scott Pilgrim and Harry Potter show off new footage at MTV Awards

Posted 16 years ago

Near as I can tell, last night’s MTV Movie Awards were a complete bore. Normally, despite the constant TWILIGHT wins, there’s some humor to be had at the awards but this year it just seemed stale. Not surprisingly, the standouts...

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