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 9, 2013

Even if you aren’t a big fan of their music because you have incredibly bad taste in life and you know it, you’ve got to admit that Metallica knows how to put on one hell of a show. They recently performed in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and the fans were happy. And now, they’re going to be powerchording their way to the …

Last week, thanks to some set pics, we got our first look at a very blue and veiny Electro aka Jamie Foxx in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It was quite the (pleasantly) surprising transformation of the Oscar nominated actor. Even more surprising though, was yesterday’s reveal of Max Dillion, Electro’s non-supervillain civilian identity, which took the transformation into the totally opposite, totally …

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: April 22, 2013

Believe it or not, but some people had an issue with the fictional character of Electro being played by a black actor in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, because he happened to be white in the comics. To those people, I say bugger off, because this is Jamie Foxx we’re talking about here, one of the finest actors of this generation. And now, …

It’s seem like every day now a new batch of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 set photos come swinging down the interwebs (we’ve featured a couple of them already). Thus far though, they’ve all just featured our resident wall crawler Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and his sorta girlfriend Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). And that’s because nobody else has actually shown up for …

So yesterday we saw the debut of the new Spider-Man costume for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and just like director Marc Webb teased a while back, it definitely had “bigger eyes”. It also had a new webbing pattern and colour scheme, which I would say makes it the closest to the comic book version out of all the movie costumes. …

Remember when Metallica announced that they would be making a 3D movie? Yeah, me neither. But it happened! And it’s been chugging along, with Nimrod “Predators” Antal directing and hitting the scripts for the project. Called Metallica: Through the Never, the film takes a few cues from that 1991 song and plays out as part documentary, part fiction and all …