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: June 29, 2012

There’s something magical about a movie cameo. Whether it’s for a few seconds or a few minutes, seeing a big name Hollywood actor/actress do something that is totally out of their typecast character personality, is an experience that hits us square in the cortex. Here’s a look at 18 such surprise appearances. Last Updated: June 21, 2012

I simply love John Sturges’ iconic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven. A westernized remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, it featured an all-star cast of some of the biggest names in Hollywood at the time:  Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz, and Eli Wallach. So for MGM’s planned remake of that remake, it’s only …

Tom Cruise is certainly a busy actor as of late. He’s got numerous gigs lined up for several years now, finally breaking that record “one movie a year” that he’s held for a few decades now. One of the many films that he has tucked underneath his belt right now, is One Shot. Only it’s not called that anymore. It’s …

Paul Thomas Anderson is a director who seems to just have a knack for drawing out incredible game changing performances from his actors. He did it with Tom Cruise in Magnolia – easily the finest of Cruise’s career in my opinion – and especially in There Will Be Blood with Daniel Day Lewis, whose portrayal of insanely driven oil-magnate Daniel Plainview, …

Hello RemakeVille! We all know how Hollywood just adores to remake anything these days, and while some films are ripe and suitable for a fresh new take, the rest clearly aren’t. So what’s on the agenda this morning, ready to be reimagined, reenvisioned and reborted? Why, none other than the cult classic western, The Magnificent Seven. And they’ve even roped …

Can I just come out and say that I have a bit of a man-crush on Robert Down Jr? The guy is a living breathing snark factory and I love him for it. If he were running for president – my lack of US citizenship be damned – I would not only vote for him, I would put my life …

It’s safe to say that musical films are here to stay, with recent films such as Mamma Mia, Hairspray and all those horrid High School Musicals proving that there is indeed a market for them. We’ve seen very few musicals with a rock ‘n roll core to it however, at least until Rock of Ages came along. Starring Tom Cruise, …