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

Jason Lee a Chipmunk

Posted 19 years ago

Jason Lee, he of newfound “My Name is Earl” fame, has signed on to star in ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, the live-action/CGI pic based on the popular cartoon characters. Lee will star as David Seville, the father figure/manager to the...

Reese vs. Smokin Joe

Posted 19 years ago

Five weeks before filming on BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING was scheduled to begin, the flick’s star and producer herself has gone missing. Reese Witherspoon has abruptly pulled out of the project for unknown reasons leaving director Joe Carnahan (SMOKIN’ ACES)...

Shia is Indy’s son

Posted 19 years ago

The rumors were true: Shia LeBeouf will star as the son of Indiana Jones in the long-awaited INDIANA JONES 4. LeBeouf, who apparently wowed director Steven Spielberg with his work on TRANSFORMERS, is in “final talks” to star in the...

Mamma loves Pierce

Posted 19 years ago

Pierce Brosnan has signed on to co-star with Meryl Streep in the upcoming adaptation of the Broadway musical MAMMA MIA. Brosnan will play one of the men suspected of being the father of the a young woman about to be...

McConaughey the Dude

Posted 19 years ago

Matthew McConaughey has signed on to star in the upcoming surfing drama SURFER, DUDE for producer Tom Hanks. The film will have McConaughey playing a surfer in the midst of an existential crisis. Sounds like this could be a big...

M. Night’s next at Fox

Posted 19 years ago

I’m a huge admirer of M. Night Shyamalan but it was getting really tough to defend the guy after LADY IN THE WATER (despite the fact that I still think it’s a pretty damn good flick). I was worried when...

Official Venom art!

Posted 19 years ago

If you haven’t read either of the two “Art of SPIDER-MAN” books that detail, in photographic form, the making of the SPIDER-MAN movies, you’re missing out and I suggest you pick them up now. Today AICN has a sneak peek...

No Tink till 2008

Posted 19 years ago

If you’ve gotten any Disney DVDs recently you’ve likely seen the teaser trailer for the upcoming animated TINKERBELL movie. Today’s DVD release of PETER PAN will include the full trailer for the film, which has Tink voiced by Brittany Murphy....

Heath as the devil?

Posted 19 years ago

When I start thinking about PARADISE LOST I start experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and start flashing back to junior year English class. Not exactly fun for a high school student but Hollywood is hoping it’ll be more of...

Cruz gets erotic?

Posted 19 years ago

Recent Oscar nominee Penelope Cruz and Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley are attached to star in ELEGY, based on the Philip Roth’s novel “The Dying Animal.” The film would star Kingsley as an older professor who takes up a sexually...

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