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: March 13, 2015

Cry havoc and let slip the orcs of war… finally! After running a production so clandestine that that it makes JJ Abrams and Chris Nolan look like motormouth skinnerbekke, the very, very secretive veil on Duncan “Moon” Jones’ Warcraft adaptation has finally been lifted. Video game publisher Blizzard Entertainment, who developed the games on which the fantasy action-adventure is based, …

With its chiseled lead, damsels in distress and CG-heavy splash-page action scenes, Dracula Untold may find its literary roots in Bram Stoker’s classic blood-curdling tail, but it’s definitely much less a gothic horror story than a comic book superhero origin tale. This just so happens to be a superhero that sucks, and luckily not always in the negative sense. Newcomer director Gary Shore …

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: October 1, 2014

Move over, Bruce Wayne! It’s time for a new gritty reimagining of a classic character that was pretending to be a bat long before that part-time Gotham socialite fell down a well and got the idea to punch bad people in the face. I am of course referring to Legendary’s reboot of Bram Stoker’s classic bloodsucker in Dracula Untold, which surprised me quite …

Thanks to Human Rights Day falling on a Friday this year, it’s a 3-day weekend in South Africa. This means all the new cinema releases are out from today, not tomorrow. And this week you have a choice of 6 new movies. Need for Speed: Screening in 2D, 3D and 3D IMAX is this action film based on the Need …

With the Fast & Furious franchise already being the mega-moneymaking, neon-lit, supercharged racing elephant in the room, you’re probably wondering if Need for Speed, a movie based on a mega-moneymaking, neon-lit, supercharged racing video game, could possibly bring something new to the table. Right from the get-go, director Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) shows you that it can. It’s just a very unexpected …

We’ve been hearing about the Warcraft film for years, but the peons seem to have sprung to work recently and Dominic Cooper had a bit to say regarding this project to recently. Last Updated: January 15, 2014