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

Around the JoBlo.com Watercooler! Mad Max, Fight Club and more!

Posted 16 years ago

In this new weekly column we take a look at some of the hot conversations currently taking place around the virtual watercooler in the JOBLO.COM FORUMS. Each week we’ll present you with some new conversations that you can jump in...

World War Z not dead yet

Posted 16 years ago

Paramount won a bidding war back in 2006 for the feature film rights to the Max Brooks novel WORLD WAR Z. Four years later the film is still stuck in development hell but the studio isn’t ready to give up...

First look at the next teen girl assassin

Posted 16 years ago

Below we have our first look at the heroine in the upcoming Joe Wright action-drama HANNA, which follows a teen girl trained by her father to be a ruthless assassin: Are you the Salmon girl? Why yes, that is Saoirse...

Sacha Baron Cohen to stare at goats in next film?

Posted 16 years ago

While rumors spread that Sacha Baron Cohen might be considering THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, there’s another project Cohen is working on that’s a higher priority. Cohen and writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, and David Mandel pitched at least...

MOVIE POLL # 571

Posted 16 years ago

Bryan Singer hires his Usual Suspects writer to help catch a Giant

Posted 16 years ago

Bryan Singer has worked with Oscar-winning writer on THE USUAL SUSPECTS and VALKYRIE and now he’s bringing him to his next project. McQuarrie has signed on to rewriter JACK THE GIANT KILLER, the big-budget retelling of “Jack and the Beanstalk”...

Marvel developing low-budget superhero movies?

Posted 16 years ago

IRON MAN 2, which theaters in just about two weeks, has a budget around $295 bazillion dollars (this is just a rough estimate – don’t quote me on that) but that doesn’t mean every Marvel movie has to cost an...

Jack Nicholson to star in next Hangover movie?

Posted 16 years ago

We all know what happens when a movie becomes unexpectedly successful – the copycats come out of the woodwork. Such is the case with THE HANGOVER as now a number of scripts making the rounds in Hollywood are being described...

Sony rubbing the bottle for I Dream of Jeannie remake

Posted 16 years ago

It’s no secret that Hollywood wants to make an I DREAM OF JEANNIE movie. In fact, I dusted off this 2004 article from the JoBlo archives where Lindsay Lohan was attached to star in a JEANNIE movie. The film has...

Gulliver guys reteam for Stretch Armstrong

Posted 16 years ago

While we’ve yet to see anything publicly on GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, the big-budget adventure comedy from Fox that stars Jack Black as a modern spin on the classic tale, Universal Pictures must have seen enough to know that they want to...

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