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

Summit to remake hit Norwegian thriller Headhunters

Posted 15 years ago

The Norwegian crime-thriller HEADHUNTERS was one of my favorite films at this year’s Fantastic Fest (read my review here) and it’s so good, I knew walking out that it was only a matter of time before it got a Hollywood...

Some early thoughts on Scorsese’s Hugo from last night’s secret NYFF screening

Posted 15 years ago

Last night the New York Film Festival held what was supposed to be a “Secret Screening” of a “work-in-progress” by a master filmmaker. Was it J. EDGAR? GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO? ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED? As it turns...

Steve Jobs wanted Aaron Sorkin to write a Pixar movie

Posted 15 years ago

Pixar is known for its homegrown “Brain Trust” made up of animators like John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter. But the Pixar team, as insular as they may seem, is not above bringing in an outsider to...

Woman sues because she thought Drive was going to be like Fast and Furious

Posted 15 years ago

This is why we can’t have nice things. Michigan woman Sarah Deming has filed a lawsuit against FilmDistrict, the distributor of Nicolas Winding-Refn’s DRIVE, claiming the studio used “misleading marketing” in promoting the film, making her believe it was “very...

Netflix bails on Qwikster, will continue to operate DVD service

Posted 15 years ago

RIP Qwikster, we hardly knew ye. Less than a month after announcing that they’d be spinning off their DVD-by-mail service into a new, separate company named Qwikster, Netflix has announced this morning they’ll be abandoning that plan. A Netflix spokesperson...

Tom Cruise in talks to star in All You Need Is Kill (which has a new title)

Posted 15 years ago

Back when it became a hot spec script, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL was a story that followed a young soldier in a futuristic war who, not unlike GROUNDHOG DAY, keeps reliving the same brutal battle over and over. But...

Has the director of Dredd been booted from the editing room?

Posted 15 years ago

JUDGE DREDD, the 1995 Sylvester Stallone film, was one of the box-office bombs that almost put the A-list actor completely out of commission in Hollywood. DREDD, the Lionsgate reboot of the franchise starring Karl Urban, was supposed to reverse the...

Aaron Eckhart to star as Frankenstein’s monster in a modern re-telling

Posted 15 years ago

Lionsgate is moving forward on its long-planned I, FRANKENSTEIN project, today announcing that they’ve signed Aaron Eckhart to star as Frankeinstein’s monster in the film. Hey, if SNOW WHITE can get to “re-imaginings” then Frankenstein can at least get one…...

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Ewww! Dissecting the grossest scenes in The Human Centipede 2

Posted 15 years ago

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 hits select theaters today across the U.S. Soon you people will know the pain that Eric Walkuski and I endured reviewing this for the site. Sometime yesterday, we started debating what was the grosses part of...

Cinemark threatens to boycott Tower Heist over premium VOD plan

Posted 15 years ago

Earlier this week, it was announced that Universal was testing a new “premium VOD” plan that would offer up TOWER HEIST three weeks after its November 4th release date for $60 per rental. I reacted like most people who read...

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