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

Seth Rogen to star in a spy comedy for Disney?

Posted 14 years ago

Seth Rogen’s last foray into the action-comedy, THE GREEN HORNET, didn’t exactly go over very well. It was a noble effort, I suppose, but in the end, misguided. But Rogen is ready to give it another shot with the Disney...

Exclusive: Joss Whedon on The Avengers in 3D, promises it won’t be obnoxious

Posted 14 years ago

In news that should surprise nobody, Disney announced this afternoon that the upcoming epic superhero film THE AVENGERS will be released in both 3D and 2D. I caught up with AVENGERS director Joss Whedon shortly after the news broke and...

INTERVIEW: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director David Fincher!

Posted 14 years ago

“I feel that there are real genuine stories about the making of movies and a lot of that gets lost.” David Fincher not suffer fools gladly. This I know even before I meet the director in a New York City...

Jaws gets an official Blu-ray release date?!

Posted 14 years ago

For so long, I waited for all my favorite movies to come out on DVD and when I finally collected all of them, along came Blu-ray. And now here I am again, waiting and wondering when we’ll get some classics...

Interview: Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director David Fincher!

Posted 14 years ago

Bill Murray (allegedly) puts his Ghostbusters 3 script through the paper shredder

Posted 14 years ago

A few months ago I issued a promise to you, the good JoBlo.com reader, that I’d stop with the GHOSTBUSTERS 3 nonsense as we had come to the mutual conclusion that it was driving us all crazy. So I present...

Star Trek 2 won’t be shot in 3D after all, but possibly IMAX

Posted 14 years ago

There were some rumors back in November that JJ Abrams would be shooting STAR TREK 2 in 3D but the director has taken to the internet to debunk those rumors and put an end to the 2D/3D controversy. Abrams told...

Check out Iron Man, Thor and Cap in two new pics from The Avengers

Posted 14 years ago

We’re catching up on a lot of trailers for big 2012 movies the past few weeks. There’s THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, WRATH OF THE TITANS, BATTLESHIP, MEN IN BLACK 3, JACK THE GIANT KILLER, THE EXPENDABLES 2 plus THE HOBBIT...

Cool Videos: Tom Cruise is in a hurry

Posted 14 years ago

Between the supercuts of Brad Pitt eating and now Tom Cruise running, I think we’ve exhausted all the minutiae of famous actors doing mundane things. Unless, of course, someone does the “George Clooney smirking” supercut. So now we do have...

Ridley Scott says there will be no aliens in Prometheus

Posted 14 years ago

Ridley Scott has been saying for some time that PROMETHEUS will have the DNA of the very first Alien film but that’s a deliberately vague statement that’s not helping us clear up the confusion about the supposed ALIEN prequel. But...

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