Extras! 05 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 5, 2014
Microsoft South Africa is listening
We sat down with local Microsoft people to discuss the upcoming Xbox One launch and get answers to all your questions, or at least try.
Top List Thursdays – Top Five DVD commentaries
When DVD’s first came out, the new medium needed a gimmick that would help sell the idea of movies with better audio and visual quality. And then a genous hit on the idea of dropping an additional audio track into a film, that would consist of cast and crew sitting down and talking about the film while it ran. Genius. Since …
Is Jared Leto eyeing the role of the sorcerer supreme for DOCTOR STRANGE?
We’ve got a director for Doctor Strange, but like most Marvel movies, this will most likely be the kind of flick where we’ll need a star that can get along with whoever is in charge. Think Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man. Joss Whedon and everyone else in the Avengers. And now, think Scott Derrickson and maybe …
Director Dean Deblois talks HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 – A saga with a beginning, middle and end
How To Train Your Dragon is the kind of animated film that gets better with repeated viewings. Hell, I wasn’t even sold at first, but after being convinced to give the movie a second chance, I found myself appreciating it more. What I did particularly enjoy in round deux however, was that it was a done-in-one story. Still, How To …
Chronicle's Josh Trank is directing the other Star Wars spinoff movie
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, we knew absolutely nothing with any certainty about Lucasfilm/Disney’s plans for more Star Wars movies, other than there were going to be more Star Wars movies. But now we have JJ Abrams’ toiling away on Star Wars: Episode VII, with a fully revealed cast, not to mention leaked set pics popping up …
The METAL GEAR SOLID feature film has finally found its director
Way back in 1998, playing legendary game designer Hideo Kojima’s soon to become classic video game, Metal Gear Solid, for the very first time, I remember turning to a friend of mine as soon as the opening credits started appearing on-screen and loudly exclaiming “Cowabunga, dude! This game is like, totally rad. It’s lank kiff how it looks and feels just …
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen are VERY GOOD GIRLS in this trailer
Once upon a time, a very young girl by the name of Dakota Fanning, possessing acting talent far beyond her years, was being praised as the next big thing in Hollywood. Then she screamed at Tom Cruise (a lot!) and hooked up with some vampires, and all of a sudden she wasn’t a big deal anymore. Once upon another time, …
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