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

Punisher 2 director is

Posted 19 years ago

The boys over at our sister horror site Arrow in the Head have broken the scoop wide open on who’s directing THE PUNISHER 2. Early reports surfaced that John Dahl (ROUNDERS) would be directing but Arrow’s reporting that Dahl is...

Another J-horror remake?

Posted 19 years ago

It seems like the time of the J-Horror remake has come and gone and the tastes of the American horror-loving public has shifted to the SAW/Eli Roth-style (I refuse to say “torture porn”). While J-Horror came and went, we still...

Story and the Losers

Posted 19 years ago

Tim Story doesn’t seem to be getting too much love from the fanboy community these days but that’s not stopping him from returning to the comic genre for another turn. No, FANTASTIC FOUR 3 hasn’t been announced (yet – give...

Murray sparks Ember

Posted 19 years ago

Bill Murray will take a rare starring role in a big-budget movie with the upcoming Walden Media adaptation of Jeanne DuPrau’s CITY OF EMBER. The story takes place in a fictional land where there is no sun, moon or stars...

Gus sips the Kool-Aid

Posted 19 years ago

Nearly 40 years after its publication THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST is finally coming to the big screen. Gus Van Sant will direct the adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel from writer Lance Black (HBO’s “Big Love”). The book followed author...

Snyder talks Watchmen

Posted 19 years ago

The MTV Movie Awards was a couple of days ago but we’re still getting some bits of information trickling out from the day’s festivities. MTV apparently talked to 300 director Zack Snyder about his next project, the adaptation of Alan...

Vantage Point trailer

Posted 19 years ago

It’s not the I AM LEGEND trailer or the 30 DAYS OF NIGHT trailer (which will be online later today), but I was pleasantly surprised by this trailer for VANTAGE POINT. VANTAGE what you ask? Yeah, I wasn’t all that...

Campbell is Unstoppable

Posted 19 years ago

Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE) is in negotiations to direct UNSTOPPALE, a film Fox hopes can be one of their next summer blockbusters. The film follows a runaway train loaded with toxic chemicals and the race to try and stop it....

Leoni heads to Town

Posted 19 years ago

Tea Leoni has signed on to co-star with Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear in the upcoming comedy GHOST TOWN. David Koepp, who was the winner in the INDIANA JONES 4 script sweepstakes, will write and direct the film for DreamWorks....

Connery out of Indy 4!

Posted 19 years ago

Wow, I was just heading out to lunch when some breaking news came across the inbox. It’s official: Sean Connery is OUT of INDIANA JONES 4. Said the actor in a statement, “I thought long and hard about it and...

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