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

Theron has Burning sensation

Posted 19 years ago

Charlize Theron has signed on to star in THE BURNING PLAIN, the directorial debut of BABEL and 21 GRAMS writer Guillermo Arriaga. The Oscar-nominated writer had collaborated with Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu on the aforementioned films but the two had a...

Crudup takes Manhattan?

Posted 19 years ago

Poor Billy Crudup. He always seems to be the second choice of directors and producers. Cameron Crowe wanted Brad Pitt for ALMOST FAMOUS but when he bailed at the last minute, he got Billy Crudup. Zack Snyder wanted Keanu Reeves...

Live action Halo vid

Posted 19 years ago

To kick off the E3 conference right, yesterday Microsoft threw a huge bash announcing a number of exciting new products for you to spend your hard-earned money on. As you might expect, much of their talk was centered around this...

A Steve Martin thriller?

Posted 19 years ago

Guy Pearce and Don Cheadle have signed on to star in the upcoming thriller TRAITOR based on a story by Steve Martin. Yes that Steve Martin. Apparently Martin pitched writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff the concept on the set of BRINGING DOWN...

Spacey returns as Lex

Posted 19 years ago

Not much is known about SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL other than Bryan Singer is returning to direct the sequel with Brandon Routh again starring as Superman. But now we know a little more, like who the villain will be. Sadly...

Ethan Haas not Cloverfield

Posted 19 years ago

OK…one more CLOVERFIELD/1-8-08 post and then I’m taking a break for a while. Love the promotional campaign and all but we can’t run stories on this movie all day long. Based upon the amount of e-mails I get though it’s...

Barbaro: The Movie

Posted 19 years ago

Though horse racing might be the sport of kings, it never really resonated much with me. I grew up about a mile from a race track and never went there once. Yet some people are so passionate about it. So...

Kidman’s full Monte

Posted 19 years ago

Nicole Kidman will star in and produce the upcoming romantic comedy MONTE CARLO for Fox and director Thomas Bezucha (THE FAMILY STONE). Kidman first attached herself to the project back in 2005 with Jez and John Butterworth writing the script....

More Cloverfield?…

Posted 19 years ago

I’ve held off posting on this site for quite some time because I was never able to confirm it was actually attached to a movie. Before we get started talking about it, the site is ethanhaaswasright.com. I was initially given...

Gondry back w/ Carrey?

Posted 19 years ago

You may have heard the news that Tim Burton had dropped out of directing Jim Carrey’s RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! for Paramount. They studio and Carrey were searching for a new director in hopes that they could get production...

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