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

Forbidden movie coming

Posted 18 years ago

J. Michael Straczynski (CHANGELING, “Babylon 5”) has signed on to write the script for the Warner Bros. adaptation of FORBIDDEN PLANET. Joel Silver is working on the project for WB, who took over after DreamWorks put the project in turnaround...

EXCL: Boobie Watcher!

Posted 18 years ago

I’m sure I’m not the only one out there who made up their own comic books when they were in school. I was utterly bored in just about every class I was in and with a few sheets of paper...

New DTESS footage

Posted 18 years ago

Back in September, Fox ran a “sneak preview” of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL during the premiere of “Fringe.” That footage was essentially Comic-Con stuff reedited for TV. Now today more footage from DTESS has popped up online that...

Nolan’s fave TDK scene

Posted 18 years ago

The second part of the LA Times’ fantastic extended interview with Christopher Nolan is online today and in this installment Nolan talks about his favorite scene of the movie: the Batman/Joker interrogation. As Nolan says, “I could actually talk about...

Drag Me to pics

Posted 18 years ago

I didn’t know what to think about the mixed response to DRAG ME TO HELL at Comic-Con. I didn’t see the footage but the JoBloers that did told me it was a mixed bag. I’m still looking forward to the...

Hellraiser director

Posted 18 years ago

In the interests of full disclosure, HELLRAISER scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. It was one of those horror movies that I was probably a little too young to see and the flesh ripping and...

Wall-E gets Oscar push

Posted 18 years ago

As expected, Disney/Pixar will formally launch a Best Picture campaign for it’s summer hit WALL-E this week with, among other things, a full-page ad in Variety turning the trade newspaper into “Variet-E.” An animated film has never won Best Picture...

Adams is a Queen

Posted 18 years ago

Amy Adams has signed on to star in the upcoming indie drama DAUGHTER OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA. The film is based on the biography of Jacki Lyden, a reporter for NPR who memoired about growing up with her mother’s...

Jonas, farts and dogs

Posted 18 years ago

The Jonas Brothers are set to make their feature film debut with an upcoming Fox comedy based on the popular bestseller “Walter the Farting Dog.” Say what? Oh, it’s true. The Brothers, who have learned nothing from CROSSROADS, COOL AS...

Harry Potter trailer

Posted 18 years ago

Now would be the time that kids of all ages would be getting themselves ready to see HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE in theaters next month…if Warner Bros. didn’t push the film back to 2009. Just a few months...

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