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

Butler to Escape NY?

Posted 19 years ago

Prior to 300 most people (aside from his rabid PHANTOM OF THE OPERA fans) weren’t all that knowledgable about Gerard Butler. Now with the $70 million-plus opening of 300, I don’t think Butler will have that problem anymore. Case in...

Rob back with Sandler

Posted 19 years ago

This is a sentence I could have typed a hundred times by now since I started writing for JoBlo.com but…Rob Schneider has signed on to join Adam Sandler in his latest comedy. Schneider will co-star with Sandler in YOU DON’T...

Sam beats Ashton!

Posted 19 years ago

This movie doesn’t have snakes or planes but it does have Samuel L. Jackson kicking Ashton Kutcher’s ass and that sounds like my kinda movie. Kutcher has signed on to co-star with Jackson in the upcoming thriller LAKEVIEW TERRAGE where...

Murphy a Marshall

Posted 19 years ago

Eddie Murphy has signed on to co-star with comedian Katt Williams in the upcoming DreamWorks comedy MARSHALS. The movie, based on a script written by Williams, follows the first black Marshalls in the Old West. Murphy and Williams struck up...

Speed Racer speeds up

Posted 19 years ago

You kinda had to suspect that the SPEED RACER vs. INDIANA JONES 4 face-off next year on Memorial Day weekend wasn’t going to last long. Someone would blink and avoid the eventual showdown and someone has. Warner Bros. has moved...

Watts Kicked & Bitten?

Posted 19 years ago

Naomi Watts has signed on to star in the upcoming adaptation of Amy Sutherland’s book “Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World’s Premiere School for Exotic Animal Trainers.” The book follows Sutherland as she works with students...

The Iceman cometh

Posted 19 years ago

Back when I was a wide-eyed college student studying pre-law at Rutgers, I had to write a case study on notorious local legend Richard “Iceman” Kuklinski. Kuklinski was a hitman for the Gambino crime family and bragged at killing over...

Shazam in August

Posted 19 years ago

Writer John August (CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY) let slip on his blog that he’d be writing the script for a upcoming DC comics movie only he couldn’t say which one. Speculation was rampant with some sites even tossing out...

Clint and Angelina

Posted 19 years ago

Angelina Jolie will star in Clint Eastwood’s next directorial effort, the Universal thriller THE CHANGELING. The film was originally set up at Universal and Imagine for Ron Howard to direct but it was becoming clear that Howard’s schedule would preclude...

1st look at Watchmen!

Posted 19 years ago

Late yesterday night I got an e-mail about some brewing controversy about the first image of Rorshach from THE WATCHMEN. Apparently, if you pause this uncut trailer (which looks to me to be exactly what was shown at Comic-Con) at...

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