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: May 20, 2015

Jack Reacher was an entertaining action movie (we reviewed it, and liked it) that was intended from the start to launch a new action franchise with star Tom Cruise, but it took Paramount a while to green light a sequel when it didn’t quite meet their lofty box-office expectations early on. However it’s on and it’s called Jack Reacher: Never …

My mother always told me that video games were a gateway drug to realms of apes named Donkey and invaders that were possibly from space. My mom was of course right, because I’ve been tripping on retro Atari games for way too long now according to the leaderboard on my emulation programs. Thank the Triforce that those are just games …

No, not that Phase Two. There’s nothing Marvel-ous here. Well, unless you count the box office success of 2014’s The Maze Runner, which pulled in just shy of $341 million worldwide off a production budget of just $34 million. Even more importantly, it was actually kind of good. First-time feature film director Wes Ball and his young cast did a …

And the number one movie of the weekend is… not what you might have thought! Nope, a certain road warrior had to make way for four singing teenagers. I can already hear the gnashing of teeth… Last Updated: May 20, 2015

It’s difficult to get a movie trailer right, and trailers for TV shows are even harder, given the amount of material they have to work with. You need to show enough to get a decent amount of hype, but you don’t want to overplay your hand and give everything away. You also need to piece it together juuust right. It’s …

In a few weeks time, director Brad Peyton will be reteaming with his Journey 2: The Mysterious Island star Dwayne Johnson for San Andreas, which will see “The Rock” trying to survive some devastating destruction. Had Peyton had his way though, this sophomore team-up would have happened years ago and it would have been Johnson causing the devastating destruction, probably …

Mad Max: Fury Road is a modern action movie masterpiece. Breathlessly frenetic, meticulously realized, it’s deceptively spartan story wrapped around the best mind-boggling vehicular action ever captured on-screen, George Miller’s long gestating fourquel is the type of fearless filmmaking that we usually just don’t see in the Hollywood studio system any more. So of course we want more of it. …