Extras! 22 September 2014
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 22, 2014
We review LUCY – An entertainingly trippy action movie that occasionally trips itself up
Lucy is a conundrum: A thinking man’s action movie that shouldn’t be thought about too hard. It’s loud and brash, filled with Bay-esque car chases and the type of architecture destroying hallway shootouts that would make a Wachowski sibling envious. And yet, it’s also kind of trippy, going from kaboom to Cosmos in a microsecond, and filled with all sorts of ponderings …
The highest earning female actors of 2014
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Luc Besson Interview: LUCY Is Not A Normal Action Movie
Luc Besson must be one hell of a happy man. Lucy conquered this past weekend’s box office with $44 million in earnings – that is the strongest opening for a film he directed – well surpassing even The Fifth Element – and the second best opening if you include his productions. So Lucy is due to be the talk of …
Scarlett Johansson is unleashed in this new clip and images for LUCY
We’ve all had to do a questionable thing or two in our life to make some extra cash, such as when Kervyn and I agreed to appear on Whose Line Is It Anyway: Hoe-Down Edition. And that’s the predicament that Scarlett Johansson finds herself in, in Lucy. Smuggling drugs, captured and banged up, instead of ODING on adrenaline, Johansson finds …
Movies out today: Lots of Mutants and lady leads
Five new movies release today. Four of those five, unusually, have female leads. The fifth, however, will be the hands-down box office winner of the weekend. X-Men: Days of Future Past: Back in 2000, Bryan Singer’s X-Men ushered in the new Golden Age of superhero films. Fourteen years later, Singer brings us arguably the most ambitious comic book adaptation ever …
Extras! 25 April 2014
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 25, 2014
Jon Favreau touches people's lives (and their stomachs) in this trailer for CHEF
Hey, it’s an Iron Man 2 reunion! Only this time Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson aren’t teaming up to fight dodgy accented Russian villains and bloated plots, but rather hunger. And that’s the hunger for creativity, as well as the hunger for a really good steak. Chef sees Favreau write, direct and star in this lighthearted but full …
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