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

The Fighter director adapting comic 2 Guns for Vince Vaughn

Posted 16 years ago

Usually I save the “Extra Tidbits” for that little section at the bottom of this article. But today I’m leading off with my Extra Tidbit: 3 of the 5 nominees for the Director’s Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in...

Is a Tron: Legacy sequel speeding closer to a greenlight?

Posted 16 years ago

TRON: LEGACY didn’t do much to wow critics. The film currently sits at 49% on Rotten Tomatoes. But if sequels were greenlit based on critical response, we never would’ve gotten to LITTLE FOCKERS. Money is the real issue here and...

Edgar Wright returns to work on Ant-Man

Posted 16 years ago

While it is far from a done deal, ANT-MAN is inching closer to being the next Edgar Wright film as the director confirmed to the LA Times that he’s finally returned to working on the film’s script. Wright says he...

Get your first good look at Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander

Posted 16 years ago

While we’ve seen what Rooney Mara looks like as Lisbeth Salander in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO via crudely taken paparazzi photos, we’ve never seen anything proper. That’s about to change as Mara sat for a W Magazine photoshoot,...

No Ghostbusters without Bill Murray and why that’s a good thing

Posted 16 years ago

I’ll be honest – I’m really sick of writing about GHOSTBUSTERS 3. And I sympathize with you, because I’m really sick of reading about GHOSTBUSTERS 3 as well. But I wanted to post one last thing and I promise that’ll...

Fox hires writers for adaptation of Atari game Missile Command

Posted 16 years ago

If James Cameron thinks the BATTLESHIP movie is stupid, I don’t want to be around to hear what he has to say about the MISSILE COMMAND movie. Atari began pitching the film rights to the classic video game property around...

Finally! MGM sets start date and November, 2012 release for Bond 23

Posted 16 years ago

Just when you thought it might never happen, MGM announced today that director Sam Mendes will begin filming later this year on BOND 23 for a November 9, 2012 release date. There were rumors in early December that the latest...

Director creates a full-length film with Grand Theft Auto IV

Posted 16 years ago

Gamer/Amateur filmmaker Mathieu Weschler must love him some “Grand Theft Auto.” The French commercials director wrote a script and spent over two years using the “Grand Theft Auto IV” engine to bring his movie to life. Yes, the movie is...

Cool Videos: The animated short with the five-breasted woman…

Posted 16 years ago

I’m not even sure what to say about this video. It’s an animated short from France titled “Tous de Monstres” (“All Monsters”) and couldn’t be further from MONSTERS INC. if it tried. It’s a NSFW tale of a hunchbacked young...

Real life superhero Phoenix Jones fights crime, gets his ass kicked

Posted 16 years ago

The costumed superhero above is Phoenix Jones. He is not in THOR, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES or THE AVENGERS. He’s a real-life crime fighter in Seattle; the masked alter-ego of a local citizen. For a few months, Phoenix (Mr. Jones?),...

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