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

Gervais ready to Retire

Posted 19 years ago

Ricky Gervais is attached to star in the comedy EARLY RETIREMENT for Warner Bros. based on a pitch by Mark Perez (ACCEPTED). In the film, Gervais would star as a guy tired of his worklife who decides to quit to...

CON: Iron Man 2/2

Posted 19 years ago

MARVEL STUDIOS PANEL IRON MAN As you might have read, Jon Favreau showed a sneak peek at the IRON MAN footage at Paramount’s Thursday panel. He didn’t stay long though and didn’t have any talent with him so he came...

CON: Incredible Hulk

Posted 19 years ago

MARVEL STUDIOS PANEL THE INCREDIBLE HULK If you were trying to get into Hall H for the big Marvel Studios panel – that showed off both IRON MAN and THE INCREDIBLE HULK – I hope you were one of the...

Norton wrote Hulk script!

Posted 19 years ago

While this year’s Con had a lot of cool stuff, it wasn’t exactly overflowing with scoops as it had been in previous years. One exception was the word on the HULK panel that there was a new writer on the...

Depp set for Rum!

Posted 19 years ago

Johnny Depp has been rumored to be starring in THE RUM DIARY for years now and in 2004 it seemed like the film was getting close with Josh Hartnett and Benecio Del Toro among those ready to co-star. Obviously the...

Diaz a real Keeper

Posted 19 years ago

Cameron Diaz is set to star in the upcoming New Line adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel MY SISTER’S KEEPER. The film will be directed by Nick Cassavetes (THE NOTEBOOK) with a script by Jeremy Leven. The chick-lit novel follows...

Hilton sings opera?

Posted 19 years ago

In a casting decision that was wisely timed to come out after the Comic-Con (where it could be widely laughed at), Lionsgate and director Darren Bousman have cast Paris Hilton in the horror musical REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA. Which means...

CON: Indiana Jones 4

Posted 19 years ago

Well I was all set to report on the goings-on at the INDIANA JONES portion of the Comic-Con but the dudes at LucasFilm have done all my work for me. They put the entire INDIANA JONES clip online at the...

CON: Iron Man 1/2

Posted 19 years ago

Paramount moved the IRON MAN panel from its originally scheduled time during their studio slot to the Marvel Studios panel on Saturday with THE INCREDIBLE HULK. But Paramount and director Jon Favreau couldn’t resist doing a little something for IRON...

CON: Hot Rod

Posted 19 years ago

The first big panel of the first day of Comic-Con was Paramount’s panel and they kicked it off by bringing out the HOT ROD boys of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccome and Akiva Schaffer. There were some “Lonely Island” fans in...

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