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 29, 2012
With the exception of Donald Sutherland and Lenny Kravitz, none of the main stars of the record breaking Hunger Games were what you might call household names. Star Jennifer Lawrence had been pretty unrecognizable under layers of make-up in X-Men: First Class, and her previous on-screen efforts, while critically praised was much smaller indie affairs. But Lionsgate is certainly not keeping …
A few days ago a story started doing the rounds that Robert Pattinson would be joining Francis “I Am Legend” Lawrence’s sequel to Gary Ross’ Hunger Games, Catching Fire. All of which came as a very big shock to Pattinson himself, when he first read about it online. So now that it’s been confirmed that the Twilight alum is in fact …
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: May 28, 2012
It’s become quite clear, through interviews and future film choices, that Robert Pattinson is trying his best to shrug off his sparkling past involvement with the Twilight franchise. Hell, he’s even gone so far as saying that were he not actually in the movies, he’d never bring himself to read/watch the stuff. Now word has broken that while Pattinson may …
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: May 7, 2012
Well, that was quick. Just yesterday we brought word that Francis Lawrence and Bennet Miller had been added onto the shortlist of directors to replace Gary Ross for Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games. And now reports are coming in that Lionsgate have offered Lawrence the director’s chair, and it looks pretty likely that he’s going to take …
Last week we reported on the news that a couple of pretty high profile directors were possibly being courted to be Gary Ross’ replacement on the second Hunger Games story, Catching Fire. The highly unlikely choice of David Cronenberg joined Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and my personal pick, Alfonso Cuaron, on an apparent studio shortlist. Well it seems that that shortlist just …
Every archive has that one photograph that stops you mid-scroll: a crowded market square …
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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