E3 2012: The Michael Bay version
There's only one thing that could make E3 more exciting this year. Baysplosions!
We review Battleship – A surprisingly fun Independence Day successor
From Universal Pictures and toy makers Hasbro comes a big budget blockbuster based on a board game. With such a stupid concept what could possible go right? Well, a surprising amount actually. By no means is Battleship great, but as a popcorn flick – particularly when you enter the cinema with rock-bottom expectations – it delivers the crowd-pleasing goods. It’s …
Extras! RDJ makes a whole lot of money, Listen to the full Prometheus soundtrack online, Damon Lindelof spoils Battleship end credits scene, Terence Malick's The Buried gets new title and rating, Watch Casablanca on Facebook and Michael Bay's finest hour! Plus much more!
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: May 16, 2012
Yo ho ho and a barrel of explosions! Michael Bay is making a pirates TV series. In Cape Town!
He’s already blown up the present and the future real good, and now Michael Bay has set his sights on the past. The (pun intended) explosive director of such blockbusters as Transformers and Bad Boys, will be producing a series entitled Black Sails for the STARZ network, most famous for the highly gratuitous and over the top Spartacus series. So right at home for Bay then. …
New movies releasing today: More bang and blood for your buck
Apart from a couple of more contemplative movies, it’s a macho weekend at the box office – bringing big explosions and buckets of blood for your viewing pleasure. Battleship: Leave your brain at the door for this spiritual successor to Transformers, also from toy company Hasbro. Loosely based on the board/pen-and-paper game, Battleship pits a small naval fleet – in …
Bye Bye Lebeouf! Paramount Exec confirms Shia is out of Transformers 4, Ehren Kruger writing the script
We’ve been hearing about it for a while now. First it was director Michael Bay that said that he was done with the incognito-robots-go-boom franchise after the third Transformers film, but he was then lured back to helm a fourth entry. I’d like to believe that a fishing rod, a stack of money and an autographed copy of Mein Kampf …
EXTRA Extras! Loopy new poster for Looper, Snakes on a Plane for real, Harrison Ford does a Star Wars dance, Darth Vader and Son, Real life Jessica Rabbit and they were going to build a full scale USS Enterprise in Las Vegas?! Plus much more!
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! And with the long weekend behind us, it’s only fitting that we bring you an super-sized Extras today. An Extra Extras, if you will. So sit back, kick your feet up and get ready for …
Extras! Chloe Moretz confirmed as Carrie, Michael Bay confirms Ninja Turtles title, Ryan Gosling gets beat up, Watch a cool 5 second horror film and have a look at what half a million dollars worth of posters look like! Plus much more!
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 28, 2012
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