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

Lilly goes Afterwards

Posted 19 years ago

Few “Lost” stars have made the transition to films despite the show’s success. Matthew Fox recently starred in WE ARE MARSHALL and Naveen Andrews had a small role in GRINDHOUSE but beyond that, not much. Evangeline Lilly is looking to...

Kasdan does Titans

Posted 19 years ago

Legendary screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK) has signed on to write the remake of CLASH OF THE TITANS set up at Warner Bros. The original film starred Harry Hamlin as Perseus who is...

Galactus is?…

Posted 19 years ago

So now that Tim Story has confirmed a Galactus appearance in FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER, the obvious follow-up question is what the big man is going to look and sound like. Well I can’t vouch for how...

Singer drinks Milk

Posted 19 years ago

It’s been a while since we had any good competing projects racing towards a greenlight. For a while it was the Jim Carrey/Leonardo DiCaprio Howard Hughes movie (which obviously Leo won) and the Baz Luhrmann/Oliver Stone Alexander the Great movie...

Shia in Indy confirmed!

Posted 19 years ago

Finally after weeks of rumors, reports and denials we’ve got official confirmation – Shia LaBeouf will star in INDIANA JONES 4. They’ve stopped short of confirming LaBeouf as Indy’s son but the actor says, “I can tell you I’m sort...

Ricci joins Speed

Posted 19 years ago

The fantastic casting continues on the Wachowski brothers’ SPEED RACER as they’ve signed Christina Ricci to join the cast as Speed’s girlfriend Trixie. Ricci joins the already cast Emile Hirsch, John Goodman and Susan Sarandon. With Ricci cast as Trixie...

Barbarella’s back!

Posted 19 years ago

Drew Barrymore and writer John August (BIG FISH) tried to get a remake of BARBARELLA off the ground but were never successful. That, however, is not going to stop producer Dino De Laurentiis. He is starting fresh and has brought...

Forest and Denzel

Posted 19 years ago

Forest Whitaker has signed on to star in the upcoming Denzel Washington drama THE GREAT DEBATERS for The Weinstein Co. The film is based on the true story of a black 1930s East Texas debate team who makes it through...

No Mummy for Weisz

Posted 19 years ago

The original MUMMY stars have made a decision about returning for the third installment – Brendan Fraser will be back while Rachel Weisz will not. Fraser was lured by his “rich deal,” details of which weren’t released. Weisz wasn’t swayed...

RIP: Kurt Vonnegut

Posted 19 years ago

Obituaries are often hard to write, so I’ll leave this one to the wire reports. But author Kurt Vonnegut, who died Tuesday in New York, will be missed. His work was insanely influential and we all owe him a debt...

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