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 7, 2015

Despite the fact that he most recently spent his time trying to flame-grill one, Benedict Cumberbatch is in a fact a tricksy hobbit. Ever since he first burst onto the scene in BBC’s Sherlock, the award-winning British actor has always subscribed to the JJ Abrams School of Shutting the Hell Up when it came to his high-profile roles (See: Star Trek Into …

I’m still genuinely amazed at the airtight lid that has been kept on the Warcraft movie so far. That’s a film project that is going to have some massively dedicated fans rushing to see it, and nothing has managed to escape the watchful eyes of the team working on the movie. There’s still a ways to go before the movie …

The Hollywood Reporter recently hosted an interview session for Agent Carter, the Hayley Atwell-led Marvel series that aired its premiere last night, featuring showrunners Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas. But what does that have to do with Batman/Arrow/DC you ask? Well one of the interviewers was Butters’ husband Marc Guggenheim, who is an executive producer on Arrow. It’s a very …

One of the first horror movies that made me dream all kinds of crazy was the 1990 cult classic Flatliners, a story about a group of students who deliberately end their lives to be brought back at the last minute. Only problem is they end up bringing things back with them. Hang on, I think I just gave you the synopsis for …

Welcome to 2015! If, unlike me, you had loads of free time over December, I hope you managed to get to the cinema to see some of the excellent films that came out in the last few weeks of 2014. As a terribly infrequent movie-goer, I only managed to get to the cinema once during the December holidays, to watch …

To quote the great Muhammad Ali: “It ain’t bragging if you can back it up”. And 20th Century Fox certainly backed it up in 2014. “It” being the dumptruck they backed up to the bank to offload the crazy amounts of box-office money they made around the world last year. Fox officially announced yesterday (via ComingSoon) that helped along by such …

A couple of hours ago, Marvel debuted a trailer for ANt-Man, that was full of hot ant on ant action. I’m going to shut up now so that you can watch it: The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time with Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man.” Armed …