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: December 9, 2013
Today everyone hates Twilight, because it doesn’t have ‘real’ vampires. Which is a load of nonsense, since what we regard as proper vampires were mostly invented by the movies anyway. In fact, Hollywood has been playing fast and loose with these mythical bloodsuckers for a while. Sometimes they are nice, sometimes they are vicious and sometimes they run strip clubs …
Tis the season to be jolly, tralalalalala. With Christmas fast approaching, Disney only wanted one thing, and that’s for Frozen to emerge at number one at the North American box office. And it looks like the house of mouse got an early yuletide gift after all. Last Updated: December 9, 2013
Doctor Who isn’t the only piece of sci-fi celebrating a 5oth birthday, as the Star Trek franchise will be going boldly towards a half century of existence in 2016. With the latest sequel making some good numbers at the box office, and no new series on the way, something needs to be done at Paramount to take advantage of that …
It’s one thing to adapt a book for the big screen, but to do so when several other films have made an impact over the decades? That could be pretty challenging. Andy “Gollum” Serkis on the other hand, is taking that challenge head on as he brings years worth of motion capture work to the big screen. The book in …
If there’s one thing you can say about whomever holds the rights to the Terminator franchise at any one moment, it’s that they certainly don’t lack in ambition. T3: Rise of the Machines was originally supposed to lay the groundwork for a new trilogy of movies to follow, but due to the fact that, y’know, it was a bad movie, that …
If you’re anything like me, then chances are you were doing your best Bring It On impersonation when the word broke on Friday that the X-Men film following the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past would be X-Men: Apocalypse. The titular villain’s most famous storyline is probably the mid-90’s crossover Age of Apocalypse, which many – including this fanboy – assumed would be the inspiration for …
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: December 6, 2013
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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