Extras! 25 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 25, 2014
Universal's classic monsters getting their own shared universe
*Oprah voice* YOU GET A SHARED UNIVERSE! YOU GET A SHARED UNIVERSE! EVERYBODY GETS A SHARED UNIVERSE!!! Ever since Iron Man, Captain America and friends started showing up in each other’s movies to great success, Hollywood has found itself gripped by a shared universe fever. After several false starts and fumbles, DC\Warner Bros are getting their own foot in the …
Frank Darabont directing a SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN sequel with no Snow White!
2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman made just shy of $400 million on a $170 million budget, so even when you factor in the reported 8 figure marketing costs, that’s still a decent bit of profit. So naturally, Hollywood wanted a sequel. Just one small, tabloid headline grabbing problem: Director Rupert Sanders was caught cheating on his wife with titular Snow …
Vin Diesel confirms that Universal wants to develop another RIDDICK movie
It may not have been the greatest return to the big screen by any stretch of the imagination, but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn’t want to see more of Vin Diesel’s iconic anti-hero, Riddick. And it seems that for a pack of 20 menthol Kools, Universal is actually pretty keen on doing a shine job on …
Extras! Joss Whedon saves the Dark World, Frasier is expendable, Agent Carter infiltrates TV, Universal makes a lot of money, Sherlock is an imitation, and Everything you know about Star Trek Into Darkness is wrong?! Plus much more!
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 19, 2013
Extras! Fifty shades of a grey director, Ken Levine takes a run, Paul Feig introduces Cooper, Sally Cooper, and Universal gets dumb and locks themselves in! Plus much more!
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 20, 2013
Director Justin Lin won't be getting Fast & Furious any more. Replacements already revving their engines
After being bogged down by a lack of Vin Diesel and a 100% increase in Tyrese Gibson in the followup to its massively popular opening installment, the Fast and Furious franchise found itself not really being able to boast either adjective honestly. But then along came director Justin Lin, breathing some much needed fresh air into the flagging series. Okay, so …
Universal wants more MAMA
Mama may not have been the most amazing ghost story out this year, but it sure was a helluva lot better than the usual fare of torture porn and found footage flicks that have been haunting cinemas for years. A creepy short film originally, director Andres Muschietti got the chance to big screen it up with some help from Guillermo “ALL …
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