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: January 9, 2015

Despite a rather somber first trailer, I’ve still got hope that Ant-Man is going to be a fun movie. A movie, despite a rocky road to production, that will manage to retain the sense of adventure and wonder that previous Marvel movies have managed to exude as of late. With director Edgar Wright leaving the film last year after having …

From award winning creator Vince Gilligan, who brought us Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in February, comes a new cop show called Battle Creek. This time though Gilligan isn’t going it alone and has teamed up with House creator David Shore to bring us a show that looks a lot lighter than what we would expect. Featuring Josh Duhamel (Transformers) and Dean Penn (John Wick) as detectives working the …

When it comes to the Bourne characters, I’m like a teary Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice, except instead of choosing between my children I’d have to select my favourite covert super spy Last Updated: January 9, 2015

Be still my beating heart. Marvel have just issued a press release announcing two-time Golden Globe winner and Oscar-nominated actor Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica, Stand and Deliver) will join Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in a major recurring role during the latter half of the second season of the show, which is currently in the midst of its mid-season break. Olmos will …

We all love our pets. And most of us probably talk to them, because pets make for great listeners. But what if your dog or cat could talk back to you? What would they say? My cat would probably ask for some milk, while my dog would probably tell me to take him for a walk and give him a …

Please tell me someone got the Batman pun in the title? *Ahem* anyway, here’s what’s opening this week… Birdman Birdman is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor – famous for portraying an iconic superhero – as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and …

Confused by that contradictory headline? Then let me explain: Despite being what you might call “a big deal” in Hollywood, even a multiple times Oscar-nominated filmmaker like David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, The Fighter) can sometimes run into money trouble on a production. That’s what happened on Nailed, a pic that Russell was developing way back in 2008 …