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 20, 2015

January is usually a month where films make modest returns. But occasionally, you get a movie that exceeds such lukewarm expectations and goes above and beyond when it comes to putting asses in seats. American Sniper is one such film, as the Clint Eastwood directed movie set a new January record with an opening take of over $90 million. Sitting …

This is it. The big one. The grandaddy of them all. Yes, the nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards, aka the Oscars 2015, are finally here. Held at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California last night, the nominations for all 24 categories were made available altogether (a first for the event), presented by actor Chris Pine, directors …

A new year, a new start. And a sequel reaping in some big bucks. Liam Neeson has a certain set of skills, and those skills involve being a ridiculously bankable action star for a man who happens to be close to retirement age.  Taken 3 scored big over the North American weekend, raking in over $40 million. While that is …

The Hollywood awards season is officially in full swing as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s nominations for the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced last night at the Beverly Hills Hilton. The Globes has always been regarded as not just the slightly more fun, more relaxed cousin to the more stuck-up Oscars (especially since the fantastic duo of Tina Fey …

I have a dream, that one day little ginger boys like Nick can walk hand in hand with whatever the heck Darryn is, and not be judged by the colour of their (head and body) hair but the content of their character. I have a dream that the suits in Hollywood will one day finally make a biopic about US …