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: January 25, 2013
The Oscar nominated Bridesmaids destroyed box-offices, showed that R-rated female led movies could actually be successful and catapulted some of its stars into household name status. So it’s only natural that director Paul Feig would try to capture that estrogen-lightning in a bottle one more time. But after seeing the first trailer for The Heat – which reteams Feig with Melissa McCarth, …
Director Paul Feig’s 2011 sophomore feature film effort, Bridesmaids, was a game changer. Not only did it prove that R-rated female ensemble comedies could work, but it set box offices ablaze across the world. It also made a star out of Melissa McCarthy (earning her a Best Supporting Actress nomination) for pretending to violently defecate in a basin. Classy. Now Feig …
Bridesmaids was Melissa McCarthy’s breakout performance. Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon and star Jason Bateman, loved the rotund funny woman so much, that they decided to rewrite the role of the main antagonist in their upcoming comedy. And just like she stole the show in the 2011 smash hit comedy, Melissa McCarthy is once again up to her thieving ways in …
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: September 26, 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: September 20, 2012
I love my eighties cinema. It’s a period of filmmaking that was as deep and soulful as the decade that it inhabited. In other words, not at all. But thanks to that shallow couple of years, we got films that were pure action, testosterone and bad accents and one-liners. That style of film is pretty much dead, in our sceptical society. It’s …
While Amanda Peet is wowing audiences in her new romantic comedy series Bent, that doesn’t mean that she isn’t up for some more exposure on the silver screen. The actress has just been cast alongside Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy for the upcoming Identity Theft, which will be a follow-up to last years Horrible Bosses. Last Updated: April 2, 2012
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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