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

Asteroids: The Movie

Posted 17 years ago

Though perhaps a little late on the whole killer asteroid/meteor craze that was so popular in the late-90s, Universal has won the rights to make a film based on the 1979 Atari game “Asteroids.” Actually the movie will likely resemble...

Avatar at Comic-Con!

Posted 17 years ago

There’s no details on the panel just yet (the full programming schedule will be available next week) but you can rest assured that James Cameron’s AVATAR will have a big presence. How can we be sure? Well Fox and Comic-Con...

Carriers trailer

Posted 17 years ago

About two years ago, Paramount Vantage started production on a thriller titled CARRIERS about a viral pandemic and starring a young actor named Chris Pine. Vantage, the indie studio of Paramount, hoped the film would be a hit like 28...

Rogen & Streisand?

Posted 17 years ago

There are a lot of projects out there in Hollywood that become nothing at all other than a great idea (case in point: the Judd Apatow produced Will Ferrell/Sacha Baron Cohen Sherlock Holmes comedy). But sometimes it’s fun to check...

Nighy cast in Potter

Posted 17 years ago

Bill Nighy was just about the last of the best British actors that hasn’t been cast in HARRY POTTER. But that’s all about to change. Nighy told The Independent, “I don’t think I’m allowed to say it but I’m going...

Couples Retreat trailer

Posted 17 years ago

COUPLES RETREAT boasts a pretty impressive cast – Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell and Malin Akerman among others – and a pretty funny premise (four married couples each with their own issues at a couples retreat on...

Bruno can Digg it

Posted 17 years ago

The other day Bruno/Sacha Baron Cohen took part in the latest Digg Dialogg, a live interview where the questions are posed by Digg’s millions of users. What separates this from a usual chat is that the moderator doesn’t choose the...

New Basterds trailer

Posted 17 years ago

A new international trailer for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS has popped up online and once again our friends overseas have out done us. This is the best footage I’ve seen from the movie yet and it just has a certain joie de...

Pearce goes Dark

Posted 17 years ago

Guy Pearce, who has a short but memorable cameo in THE HURT LOCKER, has signed on to star in the upcoming horror flick DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK for Miramax. In the film, Pearce would play a husband (to...

Unstoppable stopped?

Posted 17 years ago

The upcoming Denzel Washington action-thriller UNSTOPPABLE has done the unthinkable; it has stopped. The project was on the fast-track at Fox with filming scheduled to begin this September for director Tony Scott but budget disagreements have put the brakes on...

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