There’s been a definite rising YA-books-to-movies trend, from the forerunners of the pack, Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, to the new additions like The Maze Runner and Divergent. Now, fans of the Artemis Fowl books have started a petition to see their big screen dreams realised for a movie that’s been rumoured for quite a while. I’ve never read the Artemis …
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: February 9, 2015
We’re back baby! With Christmas over and various shops having survived the December 26 returns day, it was time to hunker down and watch some new movies in a new year. But it looks like 2014 was still dominating, as The Hobbit: Battle Of The Five Armies dominated once again. Proving that there was indeed only one movie to rule …
Exodus: Gods and Kings may have finally toppled Mockingjay this past weekend, but it did so barely. Opening at 3503 locations, Exodus barely raked in $24.5 million across North America. Compared to other biblical epics, that’s far less than Darren Aronofsky’s Noah ($43.7 million) on opening weekend, and about on par with Son Of God ($25.6 million), a film that …
Nothing really new to report on over the North American box office. It was a quiet weekend, with Mockingjay dominating for the third weekend in a row, despite a 62% drop in revenue earned. The only real new release was The Pyramid, which debuted in ninth place. Despite a low take of just over $1.3 million, this is actually good …
And it’s the endgame! It’s that time of the year where the finish line is in sight, and some of the bigger blockbusters have been saved for last. Surprising no one, the next chapter in The Hunger Games saga took the number one slot. With the biggest debut of the year, The Hunger Games: Mockinjay Part 1 took an easy …
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 10, 2014
Spoiler alert for those of you who haven’t read the books: In the The Hunger Games: Mockingjay shit blows up! And I mean that in both the literal and figurative sense. As you can see in this final trailer for Part 1 of the franchise’s closing chapter, there’s a whole heap of pyrotechnics on display but the scale of the …
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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