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

28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo in talks to direct Highlander reboot

Posted 15 years ago

Summit thought they had a good thing going when they attached FAST FIVE director Justin Lin to their HIGHLANDER reboot before he became one of the hottest acts in town. But once FAST FIVE blew up at the box-office, Lin...

Top Gun to take the highway to the danger zone in 3D with theatrical re-release

Posted 15 years ago

If you feel the need for something more than just the need for speed, you might be excited to learn that TOP GUN is being prepped for a 3D re-release in 2012. Four minutes of the newly converted 3D footage...

Russell Crowe signs to sing alongside Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables

Posted 15 years ago

Russell Crowe, who fancies himself something of an amateur crooner as the lead singer of Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God, will get a chance to test his pipes on a more professional level. The actor has signed...

Take a look at what Pinhead would’ve looked like in the rebooted Hellraiser

Posted 15 years ago

Earlier this week, Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer (DRIVE ANGRY) admitted that their planned HELLRAISER reboot at Dimension Films was “unlikely to happen.” Today we get a look at what Lussier and Farmer had in mind for our favorite Cenobites....

2011 Fall Movie Preview!

Posted 15 years ago

Fall is here! That means football and Halloween and apple cider and sweaters and all that good stuff. It also means the summer movie season of blockbuster after blockbuster is over and we’re into some more diverse fare. We’ve got...

John Malkovich to battle zombies in Warm Bodies

Posted 15 years ago

As director Jonathan Levine hits the road to promote his film 50/50, something Summit is positioning as an awards season candidate, he’s also busy prepping a very different project. WARM BODIES, a zombie take on “Romeo & Juliet,” is Levine’s...

JJ Abrams, Michael Bay and Robert Rodriguez teaming up…but for what?

Posted 15 years ago

A few months ago, JJ Abrams ditched his agent at WME and sparked a lot of controversy when he never signed with a new agency. Could he be going rogue? Why yes, he could. And he did. Abrams teamed with...

Exclusive: Seann William Scott and Liev Schrieber get bloody in Goon character posters!

Posted 15 years ago

Let’s be honest – it’s been a while since we’ve had a decent hockey movie. MIRACLE was okay (I’m a sucker for Kurt Russell in a pair of plaid slacks) but you’d probably have to go back to SLAP SHOT...

Fantastic Fest announces full lineup for 2011 plus JoBlo.com will be there!

Posted 15 years ago

I don’t get to do a whole lot of festivals and frankly I’m not that upset about it. Chris Bumbray covers both Sundance and Toronto for us (in fact, he leaves for TIFF today) and he does a fantastic job....

Cool Videos: The lost footage of Barbra Streisand in Temple of Doom

Posted 15 years ago

I’ll warn you up front that the audio and video quality of this clip is far from pristine but considering how rare this footage is, I hope you’ll appreciate nonetheless. As the Hollywood rumor went, Barbra Streisand showed up on...

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