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

Scorsese heads to AC

Posted 19 years ago

Growing up by the Jersey Shore, I always felt the story of Atlantic City would make a fascinating cinematic story. I guess I was right. DEPARTED buds Mark Wahlberg and Martin Scorsese are teaming for an HBO movie mini-series about...

Galactus IS in FF2!

Posted 19 years ago

It wasn’t long ago that FANTASTIC FOUR star Ioan Gruffudd asserted that Galactus was NOT in RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER. I thought that would be as close to definitive word as we would get and end the speculation but...

Berry checks out bust

Posted 19 years ago

Back in 2004 Halle Berry set up the based-on-a-true-story Brockovichian drama TULIA but the project never got off the ground. About three years later Lionsgate has come aboard to breathe new life into the film. The film would star Berry...

WB plans for Plame

Posted 19 years ago

Warner Bros. has signed a deal to develop a film based around the Valerie Plame scandal. The studio has secured the rights to Plame’s story and the story of her husband Joseph Wilson. Should the CIA approve Plame’s planned memoir...

Boyle climbs Tower

Posted 19 years ago

Danny Boyle might not see his SUNSHINE in theaters for a while but he’s moving on to his next project. He has signed on to direct PONTE TOWER a film that will take place in South Africa’s 54-story skyscraper. The...

Persia concept art?

Posted 19 years ago

I’m not enough of a gamer to know much about this PRINCE OF PERSIA, but it’s apparently a pretty big deal with a pretty big fanbase. Hollywood tried getting a movie on the ground that would’ve been released last year...

UK Sunshine poster

Posted 19 years ago

It certainly looks like we’re not seeing Danny Boyle’s sci-fi thriller SUNSHINE any time soon here in the states (definitely pushed back to summer, possibly pushed back to fall), but the UK gets this flick early this May. They also...

Arkin gets Smart

Posted 19 years ago

Recent Oscar winner Alan Arkin has signed on to star in Warner Bros. upcoming comedy GET SMART. Arkin will play the head of CONTROL, the top secret agency that Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) and Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) work for...

Downey hears Thunder

Posted 19 years ago

Robert Downey, Jr. and Jay Baruchel (FANBOYS) have signed on to star in the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy TROPIC THUNDER for DreamWorks. Downey, Jr. will actually star in the role Stiller had been recruiting Tom Cruise for, playing Kirk Lazarus,...

Sprechen Sie Die Hard?

Posted 19 years ago

LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD is being known as DIE HARD 4.0 pretty much everywhere else other than the US probably because the “live free” angle is inherently American. I’m still not sure though why the international community is getting...

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