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

Universal signs Vin Diesel for third Riddick

Posted 17 years ago

I honestly never thought I’d see the day when another RIDDICK movie would get made. I know Vin Diesel has been talking about it since, well before the CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK came out, but once that film failed so spectacularly...

A Year in Movies: Holiday Style

Posted 17 years ago

With the news that holiday-centric movie VALENTINE’S DAY is getting a spinoff/sequel titled NEW YEAR’S EVE, I wondered what percentage of a yearly calendar’s holidays have actually been turned into movies. My criteria was that the film had to be...

Full Toy Story 3 trailer online!

Posted 17 years ago

The new trailer for TOY STORY 3 is here and delivers a lot more substance in terms of what to expect in the third installment. I was a bit skeptical after the first teaser but this full trailer delivers in...

EXCLUSIVE: The Ghost Writer TV Spot!

Posted 17 years ago

First thing’s first. THE GHOST WRITER isn’t about an actual ghost. Don’t expect to see Ewan McGregor walking around with a sheet over his head like Alec Baldwin in BEETLEJUICE. But that doesn’t mean this film is lacking in suspense...

Universal running a Whorehouse

Posted 17 years ago

Universal Pictures is looking to remake the classic early-80s musical THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS and has hired LEGALLY BLONDE writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith to write the script. The original 1982 film starred Burt Reynolds and...

Reboot of the Day: National Lampoon’s Vacation

Posted 17 years ago

Just this past Sunday, Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo reprised perhaps their most famous roles, Clark and Ellen Griswold, in a 14-minute short for a travel site. Now today we have news that the Griswolds are about to get the...

CONTEST: Be the next Suicide Girl!

Posted 17 years ago

In 2007, E! ran a special on the “Sexiest Jobs in Hollywood.” I’m not sure if they went down that far but I’d guess Internet Webmaster is probably around 7,879th on that last right under Robin Williams Back Waxer but...

Spider-Man reboot will be in 3D

Posted 17 years ago

It’s a move that has been speculated for a while but Sony Pictures made it official today – the next SPIDER-MAN movie will be in 3D. Of course this is the new Marc Webb-directed SPIDER-MAN reboot and not the Sam...

Cars 2 stalls, pushed back to December 2011

Posted 17 years ago

UPDATE – Coming Soon has confirmed that CARS 2 has NOT moved and is still set for a June 24, 2011 release. Happy happy, joy joy. I’m hardly a “Pixar fanboy” (I’m more just a “good movie fanboy”) but I...

SXSW announces panels with Tarantino, Gondry and more!

Posted 17 years ago

I’m sure you’ve already heard by now the lineup for this year’s SXSW festival. In addition to some pretty kick-ass movies like, well…, KICK-ASS, they’ve got some pretty bitchin’ panels they’ve just announced. Quentin Tarantino, Michel Gondry, David Gordon Green,...

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