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

What About Banks?

Posted 19 years ago

Elizabeth Banks (INVINCIBLE, SPIDER-MAN 3) has signed on to star in and produce the upcoming romantic comedy WHAT ABOUT BARB? for Universal. In the film Banks will play an uptight socialite who has to convince her misfit cousin to be...

Carrey back to comedy

Posted 19 years ago

Jim Carrey hasn’t done a straight up comedy since 2003’s BRUCE ALMIGHTY (no, I’m not counting FUN WITH DICK AND JANE primarily because it wasn’t funny in the slightest) but he’s returning to form with the upcoming Fox comedy ME...

Chuck & Larry trailer

Posted 19 years ago

One of the things that might actually get me to see this summer’s Adam Sandler entry I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY is that it has a script by Alexander Payne of SIDEWAYS and ELECTION fame. It also has...

EXCL: Treasure 2 cast!

Posted 19 years ago

UPDATE – Just remember where you heard it first…. NATIONAL TREASURE 2 is already filming in Washington, DC so it’s surprising that no casting details have been announced yet. Well that’s what JoBlo.com is here for! We’ve got the scoop...

New Line to Xbox 360

Posted 19 years ago

New Line is the latest company to partner with Microsoft to make films from its catalog available for download through Xbox 360’s Video Marketplace . New Line will make flicks available in both HD and standard-definition while Paramount has finally...

D’works steals Disney man

Posted 19 years ago

Chris Sanders was a promising talent at Disney where he had directed LILO AND STITCH, one of the few promising original films Disney had churned out in the post-LION KING era. His next film, AMERICAN DOG, was highly anticipated at...

Myers back? Seriously?

Posted 19 years ago

We’ve heard all the talk and rumors about Mike Myers supposedly getting ready to make his big comeback after not starring in a funny movie since AUSTIN POWERS 1. Unfortunately nothing was really happening and people (nay, me) were beginning...

A Forest at Night

Posted 19 years ago

Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker is in talks to join Keanu Reeves in the upcoming cop drama THE NIGHT WATCHMAN. In the film, Reeves will play a cop who suddenly comes to question the violent and ruthless tactics that got him to...

Indy’s sidekick is..

Posted 19 years ago

Move over Short Round, Indy’s got a new sidekick! Paramount and director Steven Spielberg have set Ray Winstone to star in INDIANA JONES 4 as Indy’s partner-in-crime. Winstone, who did amazing work in THE DEPARTED, will be a fantastic addition...

Abbie a Bright Star?

Posted 19 years ago

I’m not sure why I know Abbie Cornish’s name, but I do. Whoever her publicist is should get a big fat raise because without IMDB, I had no idea she was in A GOOD YEAR with Russell Crowe or that...

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