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! We have a bumper edition today, to make up for the last two weeks we spent making trifle pudding in a cement mixer and just pouring it down our throats. Last Updated: January 6, 2014

I think it started with Wikus Swart and his “fooken prawns” and then was definitely helped along with the 2010 Soccer World Cup and it’s non stop travelogues of our corner of the world, but soon every Denzel Washington and his Ryan Reynolds wanted to make a movie/TV series in South Africa. We were in the spotlight, and so too …

It’s been just over a month since we first learned that Arnold Schwarzenegger would soon be back on our screens to crush his enemies, see them driven before him, and to hear the lamentation of their women. And now producer/screenwriter Chris Morgan has shared some more details about the aging barbarian king’s last hurrah. Last Updated: December 4, 2012

“Conan, what is best in life?” “Having a resurging action star from the 80’s reprise the role that made him famous, using a story that sounds epic and showing the young reboot usurpers exactly how it’s supposed to be done. Also, hear the lamentations of their women. I think that last bit is important.” Last Updated: October 26, 2012

I have just lost a whole lot of the hope that I had for the Gears of War movie. Somewhere deep down, I truly believe that Epic Games and Microsoft understand that if they put the right amount of money and time into creating a proper Gears of War movie, they could very well make a ton of money, and …

The story that the Gears of War movie is “looking good” is doing the rounds on the internet, but on closer inspection, I realised that it’s not the movie itself that is looking good, only the basic script and budget proposals and so on. The movie itself is not anywhere near the beginning of production yet as no budget has …