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: October 17, 2014

In the animated movie world, Pixar is definitely the heavyweight champ. And “heavyweight” is probably also an apt description of what their award shelves must feel like by now. But while the Disney owned studio has been pulling in the gold with movies like Toy Story and Up (all fully justified, I might add), Dreamworks Animation has seriously upped their …

Put away those English Lit books, kids, because this time the classic novel of Moby Dick won’t bore you to tears (but it will still make you question eating sushi again). But for once, this is not some lame adaptation of the classic Herman Melville novel, but rather a slightly different, but epic looking movie starring none other than the …

F*** it, cut the cord! I’ve had that Rage Against The Machine song stuck in my head all morning as news arrived of HBO’s online plans. Last Updated: October 17, 2014

Imagine a former comedian. Who was cutting edge, risky and as funny as could be. Now he’s washed up, about as hilarious as catching Hepatitis B and forced to star in family-friendly flicks. While that sounds exactly like Eddie Murphy’s career, it’s also vaguely familiar to Chris Rock who just turned that concept into a movie. Here’s the first trailer …

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles We all know what this is about, so I’m not going to bother with a full synopsis. They’re mutant turtle teenagers trained by a mutant rat to be ninjas, to fight the evil Shredder and The Foot clan, that about covers it. So, let’s talk about the controversy surrounding this movie’s existence instead! Nothing is more …

Contrary to popular belief, Jennifer Lawrence actually has more coming out in the next few months than just some more leaked cellphone pics. And the biggest entry on the young Oscar winner’s calendar is undoubtedly The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, the first part of the final chapter in the record breaking YA adaptation franchise. This is literally the …

Well, damn. Looks like it’s on now. Yesterday, Warner Bros essentially pulled off the modern Hollywood studio version of walking up to Marvel, slapping them in the face with a silk glove and declaring a duel when they released their DC Comics movie lineup all the way up to 2020. Not so much “pistols at dawn” as it is “Superheroes …