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 14, 2013

There seems to be a trend in Hollywood, whereby if an actor/actress wins the Oscar for an emotionally draining role, their next gig or two tends to… well, suck. Maybe they’re relaxing their spent acting muscles or something. Who knows. But the point is that you’ll have a decent actress like Halle Berry winning for Monster’s Ball and then doing Catwoman. And …

Infuriatingly tight-lipped director JJ Abrams returns this year with a Star Trek sequel that takes the Enterprise crew…Into Darkness! DAN DAN DAAAAAN! With only a few months to go until the premiere of the film, the marketing has begun to kick off, and that includes a few tidbits about the theme of the film, twists, surprises and maybe even a …

With just under 5 months left until Tony Stark is snarking up the screen in his red and gold tin can, it’s full steam ahead for Marvel’s Phase 2, the second step in their plan to turn the entire population of planet Earth into comic geeks (Which gets my vote). Out of all of their developments though, the riskiest but …

Money, it’s a thing! A couple of new releases in the box office landscape made themselves known this week, as audiences had to choose between realistic terrorist hunting and watching Marlon Wayans murder comedy. But only one of them could emerge to the top spot, and the Oscar Mike winner was pretty obvious from the start of this weekend operation. …

Oh Christopher Walken, is there no form of visual entertainment that you will not try your hand at? Mid-90s computer games aside, Walken has been in an unreal amount of films, facing off against the likes of James Bond through to The Rock. But even this next film has me scratching my head. And I saw Click, wherein he played …

How much difference can a word make? The word, in this case, being “Motherf@#er”. Well, according to Eddie Murphy’s career nose dive since he started getting all family friendly, a lot. John McClane might not quite be on that level yet, but ever since the last Die Hard film went all PG-13, some were wondering whether more than just the character’s …

Keep an eye on the ripples in your cup of water and don’t…make…any…sudden…movements! A fourth Jurassic Park film has been lying dormant for several years now, with Joe Johnston’s trilogy capper having appeared way back in the Cretaceous age of 2001. Fast forward a decade, and Universal Studios is finally ready to get the ball rolling on a making the trilogy a …