Did you also who look at the trailer for Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid, and go “HOLY WTF?”. Well, what you should have been saying is “CHA-CHING!” (And no, that’s not a thinly veiled racist joke) because in just two weeks since opening in China, the Hong Kong actor/writer/director’s latest cinematic spectacle has gone to become the highest grossing movie in …

Welcome to our Weekly Round-Up for the The Extras! A collection of the 15 most popular movie related clips, posters, pics and just plain cool stuff posted on our Twitter profile and Facebook page using the hashtag #TheMoviesExtras in the last week. Remember, these are only the contributions that received the most likes and views since last Thursday, so if …

Stephen Chow is best known in the West for his cult classics Shaolin Soccer (not football) and Kung Fu Hustle, however his upcoming release is something very different. Billed as a science-fiction comedy, The Mermaid stars Zhang Yuqi as the titular half-woman half-fish-out-of-water trying to save the ocean from being exploited by a ruthless real estate developer. The official plot …

The World’s End, the final “chapter” in Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy” is busy filming right now. Now all those quotation marks in that previous sentence are there because despite it being called a trilogy, the previous two collaborations between the English trio, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, have had nothing to do with …