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

Megan Fox luvs Rourke

Posted 17 years ago

One of the hottest actors in Hollywood just got one of the hottest actresses on his side. Megan Fox has signed on to star alongside Mickey Rourke in the upcoming indie drama PASSION PLAYS. The Hollywood Reporter describes the film...

Basterds hit Cannes

Posted 17 years ago

As was widely expected, Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS will premiere at this May’s Cannes Film Festival where it has been invited to screen in competition. That would put BASTERS up against Pixar’s UP in what should be the oddest head-to-head...

EXCL: Stepfather poster!

Posted 17 years ago

One of the things I loved about movies as a kid was going to the video rental store and making my way into the horror section and checking out all the awesome box art. These were movies that my parents...

MIB 3 confirmed

Posted 17 years ago

While at the Sony presentation at ShoWest, president Rory Bruer mentioned in his intro that they have a lot of interesting projects in the works for 2010 and 2011. Those included the previously announced SPIDER-MAN 4 and GHOSTBUSTERS 3 but...

New Pelham trailer

Posted 17 years ago

In just about two hours, Sony will be unveiling a bunch of new footage from their summer films at ShoWest. Among those films will be THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 (even though I know you guys are really dying to...

ShoWest: GI Joe!

Posted 17 years ago

Last night before the screening of THE SOLOIST at ShoWest, Paramount announced they had a special treat before the movie was about to start. They had about four minutes of footage from GI JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA to show...

ShoWest: Meatballs!

Posted 17 years ago

Not to animation studios: it’s probably not the best idea to schedule your footage screenings directly after Pixar. The Disney/Pixar footage of UP ran long so Sony was forced to wait a bit to start their 3D presentation of CLOUDY...

ShoWest: Disney 3D

Posted 17 years ago

3D seems to be the big theme of this year’s ShoWest as the studios are pitching the theater owners to add more screens and help make this the next big thing. To show how important it was to them, Disney...

Drag Me poster!

Posted 17 years ago

The buzz out of the early screenings of Sam Raimi’s DRAG ME TO HELL has been phenomenal. So much so that I’m slightly annoyed they brought it to SXSW and not here to ShoWest (but on the upside, I get...

Showest 2009!

Posted 17 years ago

We’re coming to you live from Las Vegas where ShoWest kicked off today! Johnny Moreno and I will be covering the festivities this year in style and bringing you a special edition of the JoBlo Movie Show in the process...

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