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: November 27, 2012

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: November 2, 2012

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 …

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 …

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 …