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: July 12, 2012

It’s official: Hollywood loves comics. And while both Marvel and DC currently have plenty of films in the pipeline, there are still a huge number of other comics that would also be perfect for some cinematic glory. Today, I’m finally going to put all the time and money I spend every month on comics to good use (Ha! Take that, …

Marvel Comics happens to have a solid library of films building up now, with at least one new entry every year. DC Comics on the other hand? They’ve tried their hand at an annual blockbuster, but so far, it’s not working out too great, with the latest Superman film, Man of Steel, the only other new entry coming from that …

Marvel’s Phase One Blu Ray collection – with it’s shiny packaging and Blu Ray blockbusters – already got most of us geeks salivating uncontrollably at all its contained awesomeness, but now some further details have been revealed which sounds even cooler. Along with these details, also included are the gorgeous artworks to be used as the film sleeves as well …

The upcoming Noah adaptation that director Darren Aronofsky is working on, is a story that has been told many times before on screen. God gets angry, drowns humanity, while Noah cruises the oceans for a month and a half with his menagerie of animals that somehow avoid turning his ark into the worlds largest floating manure farm. Kinda boring when …

Charlie Kaufmann’s pen has produced some of the most inventive and charmingly off-kilter films of the last decade. Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; these are all examples of the twisted genius he has brought to Hollywood. So when the talented and critically lauded writer decided to finally don the director’s hat with Frank & Francis with …

The star of Arrested Development, Horrible Bosses and the Change-Up is no stranger when it comes to being behind the camera. He’s directed quite a few TV projects, but has yet to make the leap from small screen to big screen. Well that’s all changing, as he’ll be Clint Eastwooding his way into his debut feature, which he’ll star in …

Much like the glowing fanged aliens (what, does their diet just consist of ravers?) to be found in it, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block came out of nowhere. But with him then going on to co-write Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s Adventures of Tintin, as well being tapped to adapt Neal Stephenson’s famed sci-fi novel Snow Crash, it’s safe to say …