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: June 8, 2012

Over the last few years, Hollywood has often been accused of scraping the bottom of the creative barrel (Most recently by Darryn). I don’t agree though. I say they’ve long scraped clean through that barrel’s bottom, hit the worm infested ground beneath and just kept on going. They’re halfway to China already, by my reckoning. And while that may seem …

We’re going old school today. We’re putting away the laser rifles and computer-guided missiles for a high noon showdown, between two legendary gunslingers, in our Friday Western Duel. It’s the outlaw Josey Wales, facing off against the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Go fetch your popcorn and grab your seat-edges with an iron Kung-Fu grip, because this is going to one …

Blame a certain vampire-hunting American president for this idea. With historical figures now being tweaked to become more fictional and more ass-kicky every day, the latest renowned figure to receive that treatment is none other than the gravity law-keeper himself, Sir Isaac Newton. Last Updated: June 8, 2012

I’m not quite the convert to the Church of The Bull* that some people are around here, as I’ve always felt that while Guillermo Del Toro’s works are highly imaginative, all his works (with the possible exception of Pan’s Labyrinth) just lacked a bit of narrative spark. But, man oh man, did they look great. And while we have no idea whether …

At this time of year, fantasy and science fiction dominate at the box office. This week is no different, with the release – in South Africa and the US – of one of the most highly anticipated sci-fi thrillers of 2012. Meanwhile, the only other 2 releases with the courage to open against this behemoth cunningly cater for a very …

Talking about scraping the bottom of a barrel. Provided that that barrel, was underneath another barrel, hidden in a secret compartment beneath a barrel warehouse that was surrounded by a barrel manufacturing compan –  I’m drifting again. Anyway, Paramount recently registered some new domain names, and looking at the list, it would appear that we are once again getting another Jackass movie. …

We’ve known for a while now that a big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s It was on it’s way (cue child-psychologists the world over getting ready to make a lot of money) and now Heat Vision is reporting that Cary Fukunaga, the young writer/director who successfully adapted Jane Eyre last year, has been given the task of inciting an entirely new generation’s …