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 6, 2015

Stupid public holidays. It looks like I skipped a week or something, because there is a whole range of new faces on the top 10. It’s on one hand a bit jarring – like stepping into your local and just seeing the faces of strangers. On the other hand, wasn’t I complaining not too long ago that there isn’t enough …

Right now, Captain America: Civil War is starting to sound more like a sneaky Avengers sequel, thanks to the plethora of guest capes popping up in it. With Iron Man, Hawkeye and various other heroes throwing down, you just know that the film is going to lead up to something massive. And according to the good captain himself, the third …

I am pretty sure that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be horrified astounded with all the different iterations of his very famous Sherlock Holmes. The detective has been in huge blockbuster movies played by Iron Man Robert Downey Jr., in the absolutely stellar Sherlock Holmes, and even has a TV series where his sidekick is played by a rather attractive Asian woman… Yeah, lost me there …

The war, such as it is, is heating up in the first full trailer for FX’s The Strain season two. With *SPOILER ALERT* the island of Manhattan overrun by vampires it’s time for the blood bags humans, lead by CDC Doctor (and walking trope machine) Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), to fight back; and from the looks of things it doesn’t appear to …

Whatever happened to straight forward filming? Between 3D, continuous shots, found footage, heck even shooting a movie over an eleven year period a la Boyhood, there are lots of different gimmicks to choose from when making a movie. Some work, some don’t. Now, we have an entire movie shot on an iPhone. Granted, it was mostly done with budget and …

When watching Avengers: Age of Ultron on IMAX a few weeks ago, it was the first time I got to see some of the trailers for this year’s bigger blockbusters on the supersized format, and boy was I glad I did! Phwoar! But while I was threatening to leave moist stains on my seat after watching a virtually life-sized Millennium …

Looks like Josh Trank just lost out on a big one. We still don’t know who the new director on the planned second Star Wars Anthology spinoff movie will be after Trank was reportedly fired by Disney/Lucasfilm, but now we may know what the movie is about. Before Lucasfilm made their movie plans known, there were lots of rumours swirling …