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

Exclusive: Storyboards from Eric Bana and Saoirse Ronan brawling in Hanna!

Posted 15 years ago

I was talking to some friends the other day and noting that, while the end of the year is a long time away, I’d be surprised if I didn’t find room for HANNA on my Top 10 of 2011 list....

Rob Riggle joins Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street

Posted 15 years ago

The Sony-produced adaptation of 21 JUMP STREET is continuing to chug along towards a summer start with the addition of Rob Riggle to its cast. Riggle will star alongside Jonah Hill (who also produces), Channing Tatum, Brie Larson and Ice...

Sofia Vergara to seduce the Stooges?

Posted 15 years ago

While Peter and Bobby Farrelly continue to search for their Moe to close out the casting of the lead roles in THE THREE STOOGES, they’ve locked in on their first female role. Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”) is in talks to...

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Ye Olde Set Visit: Your Highness!

Posted 15 years ago

ReadPart 2 of our set report here! here is a prop trailer sitting quietly outside the soundstages where YOUR HIGHNESS is filming in Belfast, Ireland. Extras are bustling to and fro dressed in Old English style amongst catapults, rickshaws, pushcarts...

The MPAA pulls trailers for The Hangover, Part II from theaters

Posted 15 years ago

Last week, Warner Bros. debuted the full trailer for THE HANGOVER, PART II online and set it to run before prints of SOURCE CODE in theaters. Just yesterday, Warner Bros. sent an urgent notice to all theater owners notifying them...

As his daughter preps to have a baby, Natalie Portman’s dad writes a pregnancy thriller

Posted 15 years ago

Natalie Portman is due to give birth to her first child sometime this spring, right around the same time her father hopes to release his first book…all about having a baby. Avner Hershlag, Portman’s father (yes, Hershlag is her given...

Stallone’s next film loses its director, will Sly step in?

Posted 15 years ago

Back in February it was announced that Sylvester Stallone would star in HEADSHOT, a cop drama for director Wayne Kramer. It was notable mainly because Stallone hasn’t worked for a director other than himself since 2003’s SHADE (which I’m not...

Cool Videos: Johnny Lawrence returns to heckle Ralph Macchio

Posted 15 years ago

This is probably the first and last time I ever include a clip that has footage from “Dancing With the Stars” under the category of a “Cool Video” but anytime you can reunite Billy Zabka and Ralph Macchio, you’re a-OK...

Mark Wahlberg takes the Bait for Universal action-comedy

Posted 15 years ago

After trying his hand at unintentional comedy in M. Night Shyamalan’s THE HAPPENING, Mark Wahlberg decided to give some actual comedy a try. He had THE OTHER GUYS last summer, is prepping to film the Seth MacFarlane comedy TED and...

Cool Videos: Take a look at the new animated ThunderCats

Posted 15 years ago

There was a THUNDERCATS movie in the works a few years back that never got off the ground and instead they decided to relaunch the franchise with a series on Cartoon Network. The network had a big presence at WonderCon...

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