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

Could Bob: The Musical finally make its way to the big screen?

Posted 16 years ago

As long as I can remember writing for JoBlo.com, I can remember writing about BOB: THE MUSICAL, a film that has gone through various forms of development at Disney. I don’t remember when the project first got started but I’d...

Russell Crowe wants you to convince Fox to make a Master and Commander sequel

Posted 16 years ago

Russell Crowe wants to film a sequel to one of his movies but it’s not GLADIATOR 2, THE NEXT FOUR DAYS or 3:11 TO YUMA that he’s pushing. Instead, Crowe took to his Twitter account yesterday to convince his 110,000...

Kathryn Bigelow to squeeze in another film before the Tom Hanks movie Triple Frontier

Posted 16 years ago

Kathryn Bigelow’s planned follow-up to THE HURT LOCKER, the international suspense thriller TRIPLE FRONTIER, is taking a little too long to get going for the director’s tastes. Though she locked up the services of Tom Hanks to star in that...

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 and 6 to shoot back-to-back?

Posted 16 years ago

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES doesn’t hit theaters until next year (and the trailer not until TRON: LEGACY hits on December 17) but Disney is apparently so excited with what they’ve got that they’re putting two more sequels...

PT Anderson prepping his next film, wants Robert Downey, Jr. to star?

Posted 16 years ago

Back in September, Jeremy Renner confirmed what most of us suspected: Paul Thomas Anderson’s planned follow-up to THERE WILL BE BLOOD, an untitled dissection on Scientology, isn’t happening. As Renner told it, during rehearsals he, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Anderson...

NASA finds life unlike anything ever recorded on Earth

Posted 16 years ago

At a 2pm EST press conference later today, NASA is expected to announce that they have found an alien life form on Earth, in a lake in California (of all places). Now before you go wrapping tinfoil around your head...

Alex Proyas to direct sci-fi film from Robopocalypse author

Posted 16 years ago

Author Daniel H. Wilson just sold his latest novel “AMP” to Doubleday two weeks ago. Yesterday, Summit already snatched up the feature film rights to the project and have Alex Proyas (DARK CITY, KNOWING) attached to produce and direct. Wilson...

Cool Videos: Michael Bay directed Victoria’s Secret ad

Posted 16 years ago

We report here on new commercials directed by the likes of David Fincher, Spike Jonze and Alfonso Cuaron so why not one by Mr. Michael Bay. He may not have the accolades of the aforementioned but his films have grossed...

Pron: Legacy for those who thought Tron needed more sex

Posted 16 years ago

TRON: LEGACY finally hits theaters later this month and while early reports claim the film is tracking weakly, they’ve already begun work on a spinoff. A porno spinoff, that is. PRON is currently filming and will mix plot elements from...

Ralphie himself producing A Christmas Story: The Musical

Posted 16 years ago

As the “Elf” musical kicks off on Broadway this holiday season, another Christmas musical could be coming to the Great White Way. Peter Billingsley, who directed COUPLES RETREAT and produced IRON MAN and ZATHURA, is producing a musical adaptation of...

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