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: February 28, 2012
If he’s not tormenting our fellow writer Kervyn with easter eggs and vague references for the trailers in Prometheus, then Ridley Scott is busy with other film projects. One such is Japan in a day, which will see the veteran filmmaker executive produce a documentary wherein thousands of Japanese participants will capture footage of their nation for 24 hours, as …
Despite it’s best attempts at killing a movie genre, it looks like Twilight did not spell the end for the infamous blood-suckers. While Universal Pictures has got the ball rolling with their Bram Stoker influenced reboot of the legendary Count Dracula with Year Zero, Sony is laso readying their wooden stakes and garlic cloves for their version of the original …
Jonah Hill has been picking up some accolades and praise ever since he dipped his feet into a more dramatic role, as seen in Moneyball, with the slimfast actor even earning an Oscar nomination. And for his next role, Hill is going to be teaming up with James Franco for a crack at crime drama that happens to have some …
When seeing the on-set images of the ridiculous bulging biceps of our soon to be new Superman, Henry Cavill (seriously, is he smuggling grapefruits inside his arms?), it’s easy to forget that there is another powerhouse in the cast. Despite only possessing the physique of a high school Maths teacher at best, Michael Shannon is still as physically dominant as …
Yesterday morning, we brought you some leaked set images showing Zachary Quinto (Spock) and Zoe Saldana (Uhura) battling Benedict Cumberbatch’s unnamed villain on the set of Star Trek 2. There was much shouting and death grips – and that was only from usually secretive director JJ Abrams, who apparently was not too happy about the leak. Well, I expect he’s going …
While I may consider music from the Beach Boys to be on the same level as dragging long nails on a chalk board during an emergency meeting of shark attacks, there’s no denying that the rest of the world happens to like that particular brand of music. Fox pixtures won the rights to produce a Beach Boys flick after some …
Before you get excited, Saving Mr Banks is not some kind of post-economic-crisis sequel to Saving Private Ryan. As we previously reported, it tells the tumultuous behind the scenes story to Disney’s Mary Poppins. Now The Blind Side director, John Lee Hancock, is possibly interested in taking up the director’s chair. Last Updated: February 28, 2012
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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