Home Entertainment Extras! Avengers 3D Glasses are damn expensive and ugly, Big time producer shows us a lot of zeroes, The Rock gets mashed up and Channing Tatum shocks Rachel McAdams with his cockiness?! Plus much more!

Extras! Avengers 3D Glasses are damn expensive and ugly, Big time producer shows us a lot of zeroes, The Rock gets mashed up and Channing Tatum shocks Rachel McAdams with his cockiness?! Plus much more!

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Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed!

As a tie-in to The Avengers, Disney and Real-D have produced these special edition 3D glasses to be released along with the film. Not only are they blatant cash-ins though, they’re also blatantly expensive. They will be made available for an eye-watering $5 a pair. For those of you whose maths has deserted you in this late hour of the workday, that’s about R60 a pair. Compare that with the ~R5 you’re currently paying.

Have you wondered how much these high profile Hollywood film producers make? Well wonder no more, as an unnamed celebrity producer has provided Vulture with a full write-up of their finances, both income and expenses. Prepare yourself though. I had no idea that you could write numbers that big without also making use of letters and Greek symbols:

Here’s an amazing (but thoroughly twisted) 1 minute long short film titled The Messenger. I don’t want to give too much away, so I advise you to just watch it:

After all that creepiness, I think we need a pick-me-up. So here’s something far more lighthearted: the new poster for the upcoming 21 Jump Street reboot, which features co-stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill trying to look all gangster, but coming off all douchey. And if that groan-inducing tagline at the bottom doesn’t bring a smirk to your face, then nothing will.

Actually, I take all that back. Thin Jonah Hill creeps me out even more than the content of that video.

It’s veteran actor Gene “Why the hell did I ever do Superman IV?” Hackman’s 82nd birthday today. In celebration of this, Movies.com has listed his Top 10 Best Performances

Empire Online has a pictorial of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson film poster mashups. Like the article blurb says, “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be appalled at the punning…”. Here are a couple of the better examples:

Channing Tatum gave his The Vow costar, Rachel McAdams a bit of an eyeful, and possibly a myocardial infarction, when he had to perform a scene with her which required him to walk around a bedroom naked.  According to Stella Magazine (via IMDB), Tatum wanted to get a big reaction out of her as a prank, so for the scene he had the crew make him… well a bit more of a man, you could say, as McAdams tells it:

“Channing got the props department to make a prosthetic, um, member. Literally a fake penis. I didn’t know what to do, I thought, ‘Is that the real deal?’ It was very realistic… It was ridiculous, the scale of it!”

On that ballsy note, I’m out of here. And yes, I also can’t say “infarction” without cackling like Beavis.

Last Updated: January 31, 2012

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