Extras! 11 June 2014
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! Last Updated: June 11, 2014
This second trailer for CONSTANTINE will drive your demons away
The trailer isn’t just about a, shall we say, fateful easter egg though, there are also tons of really cool angelic/demonic visuals that show that NBC are not skimping on this series’ budget. And I’m also rapidly warming up to Matt Ryan’s take on the acerbic magic man. Still no chain-smoking though, which is kind of disappointing, seeing as how …
Marvel and Netflix's DAREDEVIL series has found its Kingpin
There’s a lot – A LOT! – to fault the Ben Affleck starring Daredevil movie on, but casting the late Michael Clarke Duncan as the blind hero’s antagonist, Wilson Fisk aka The Kingpin, was certainly not one of them. Yes, so there’s the little matter of Duncan being black while the Kingpin has traditionally been white, but the people who complained …
Brace Yourself For THE LION KING Animated Series
We all know there are very few sacred cows in pop culture and that proportion shrinks with popularity. So do not be too surprised that Disney has announced plans for a Lion King animated series. The highly successful Lion King franchise is returning to television in November 2015 with an hour-long movie, followed in January with an episodic series. Targeted …
Midweek Mouth-off: If he's in, I'm out
Easily the biggest of releases this weekend coming is the sci-fi actiion thriller Edge of Tomorrow. You may have heard that I thought that it really was damn good, a sentiment echoed by most international critics as well. And yet, despite the superb trailers, the great buzz and director Doug Liman’s established track record, I’ve heard/seen several remarking that they’re not interested …
You don't need nurses for this first trailer for DUMB AND DUMBER TO
It’s been 20 years (yes, you really are that old) since we’ve last seen everybody’s favourite brightly coloured tuxedo wearing, dog-van driving, bird decapitating, IOU issuing buffoons Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunn. Despite numerous talks about sequel almost immediately after the Farrelly Bros’ cult classic comedy released, it’s taken two decades of stop-starts, schedule reshufflings, and a prequel whose existence we …
Extras 10 June 2014
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! Last Updated: June 10, 2014
Will Denzel Washington Be One Of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN?
The Western genre remains an oddity. It has fallen a little from grace since its heyday during the golden age of movies. Then again, back then it was all about Great White Men and the Savage Indians disgruntled over the new occupying settlers Last Updated: June 10, 2014
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