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

Cool Videos: Between Two Ferns

Posted 16 years ago

Before the enormous success of THE HANGOVER, “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis” was a regular and hilarious fixture on Funny or Die. Then the film made ten trillion dollars and Zach was an overnight success and sadly the amount...

ShoWest: Toy Story 3

Posted 16 years ago

I wasn’t able to make it to ShoWest this year so I’m missing out on all the shenanigans that El Guapo, Frosty and Ed Douglas are getting into out there but I didn’t want the JoBlo.com readers to miss out....

SXSW: MacGruber!

Posted 16 years ago

Saying that MACGRUBER is the funniest based-on-an-SNL-skit movie since WAYNE’S WORLD is faint praise considering in the years since we’ve had THE CONEHEADS, A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY, SUPERSTAR and LADIES MAN. But MACGRUBER is most certainly the funniest SNL...

Evans opts out of Cap Am for indie drama?

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE – Just got in an e-mail from someone involved with the production who says Variety has its story wrong. Turns out filming on PUNCTURE already wrapped. Since it’s an indie film, it flew under the radar and news of...

As filming begins, Rose McGowan joins Conan

Posted 16 years ago

It wasn’t that long ago that there was a big splash at Comic-Con promoting the RED SONJA movie that would star Rose McGowan and be produced by Robert Rodriguez. Then came some, um, creative differences (i.e., Rodriguez and McGowan breaking...

Scott Pilgrim teaser poster debuts!

Posted 16 years ago

UPDATE – A clean look at the SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD poster is below and you can click to download a super hi-res copy! Also click the links below to download the poster as your desktop wallpaper! 1024×768 –...

Worst kept secret: Jason Segel will star in Muppets

Posted 16 years ago

Since the very day it was announced that Jason Segel would be developing a new Muppet movie for Disney with FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL director Nicholas Stoller, most people assumed that Segel would also be starring in the film. Now we...

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Set Visit: Interview with Jeff Bridges for Tron: Legacy

Posted 16 years ago

There are plenty of times in my career when an invitation for something so cool comes in, I can’t help but feel jealous when I hand the assignment off to one of our writers. Such was the case when Disney...

New Nightmare on Elm Street toys are a little weird

Posted 16 years ago

Have you ever wanted to have an action figure based on a child molester? Well today’s your lucky day! NECA is set to release two action figures from NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET – one pre-burn Freddy Krueger and one post-fire....

David Fincher to make a movie about chess?

Posted 16 years ago

After starting his career with some slick thrillers and moving on to Oscar-nominated epic BENJAMIN BUTTON could David Fincher be entering the geek phase of his career? He recently wrapped production on the Facebook movie THE SOCIAL NETWORK and is...

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