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What Happened To The Spirit?

It’s no secret that Frank Miller’s The Spirit has flopped both critically and commercially, earning only $14million in its first week of release. But could that have been avoided, if more care have been taken? To put that $14million figure in some context, the top movie of the week made $10million on Thursday alone (and … Continued

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My Box Office Screams

Here’s one Christmas present we were hoping for – The Spirit’s first day box office was… well, let’s just say that Frank Miller’s unmasterpiece made less than a third of the #1 movie. Gloating awaits. Maybe it was the appalling reviews, or the unconvincing trailers. Perhaps a nation’s theatergoers just realized that even Adam Sandler’s … Continued

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When Is Too Much Crazy A Bad Thing?

Watching The Spirit get tangled up in his black and red suit wasn’t only as confusing as Samuel L. Jackson’s eyeliner, it was disturbing. A full review (with spoilers) explains why. If Sin City was located in the scariest darkest portion of New York, then The Spirit’s home turf is Connecticut. The monochrome style of … Continued

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Costumed Crimefighters Who Share the Spirit’s Sense of Style

The Spirit may fight comic book crime, but he always preferred a fedora and suit to spandex. We look at the other heroes who’ve paired their masks with suits and hats instead of tights. Will Eisner wanted to distinguish the Spirit from costumed superheroes like Superman and Batman and bring comic books to a more … Continued

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Do Crazy Restaurant Ideas Make You The Final Cylon?

OMG spoilers! Terminator 4! Transformers and Dragonball pics! A new side of Gaeta from BSG season 4.5! Doctor Who and Lost hints! Plus Heroes, Sarah-Connor, Smallville, Spirit, Stargate, Life On Mars and Knight Rider. Terminator Salvation: Fans asked Arnie if he’d be in the new movie, and he said, “You never know.” [Arnold Fans via … Continued

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Frank Miller’s Next Gritty, Dark Project: Buck Rogers?

Rumored for so long that you’d be forgiven for thinking it was already a done deal, sources are now saying that The Spirit’s Frank Miller is close to officially signing on to direct Buck Rogers. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Miller and production company Odd Lot Entertainment (The company behind The Spirit) are in discussions … Continued

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Samuel L. Jackson Did His Own Makeup In The Spirit

Director Frank Miller rewrote the Spirit script to accommodate ScarJo and let Samuel Jackson improvise — and even reinvent his character’s look. We met the director and cast, and learned just how much they collaborated. Letting Frank Miller gallop across The Spirit film set unedited opened the doors for the actors to do so as … Continued

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Six Spirit Clips To Test Your Frank Miller Tolerance

Is The Spirit just like Sin City — actually a playfully dark thriller, and we’ve all just missed the good jokes? See for yourself in these six Spirit clips. Remember when you saw the first footage of The Spirit of the cess pool fight, and I called it a disjointed attempt at slapstick? Well now … Continued

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The Spirit Movie You Never Saw

With Frank Miller’s movie version of The Spirit less than two weeks away, it’s time to consider what might have been: An animated version of the character, courtesy of Pixar’s guiding lights. I claim do-overs! This earlier attempt to bring Will Eisner’s classic comic strip to movies comes to light via the LA Times’ Hero … Continued

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All The Women In Frank Miller’s World Are Cray Cray

The latest and greatest Spirit TV spot titled “The Power” shows all the the ladies of Frank Miller’s movie adaptation of Will Eisner’s comic The Spirit in their awful stereotyped horror. The catty ladies fight over who gets to sex up the Spirit, and talk about being great eye candy. Plus, they’re labeled “crazy,” which … Continued

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Schoolgirls And Movies Rule This Week’s Comics

If you’re heading to your local comic book store on Thursday, I have one word for you to remember: schoolgirls. Yes, this week sees the usual amount of heroes, monsters and super-this-and-that, but the best books of the week? They’re about girls in school. And not like that, perverts. Let’s go through the non-teen girl … Continued

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Frank Miller Teaches Us About Modern Noir – And Hats

The latest Spirit featurette shows off Frank Miller’s idea of “modern noir” which apparently consists of men in hats, old timey cars and sexily dressed ladies. Yeah, basically Miller’s erotic dream about Will Eisner’s 1950s comic. Luckily, there’s also a peek at some new Spirit butt-kicking as well. What I find most interesting about this … Continued

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Create Your Own Spirit Henchmen

The Spirit wants you to create your own henchmen in the new Spirit video game, complete with chemistry set. While I’m not the biggest fan of this particular Spirit marketing tack (not enough Scarjo cleavage), it’s worlds better than the jumping-across-rooftops flash game from days past. So quick, go build your big fat henchmen, and … Continued

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Will Arnie Be In Terminator 4?

Thank spoilers it’s Friday! There’s a new Astro Boy pic, and Chris Pine spills some Star Trek sex secrets. (Really.) Even more excitingly, there’s another hint about whether, and how, Arnold Schwarzenegger will turn up in Terminator 4. There’s a German trailer for The Spirit and new 2012 dirt. Plus startling new Sarah Connor clips, … Continued

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Final Spirit Poster A Casserole Of Sexual Innuendo Leftovers

This is it, folks — the final poster for Frank Miller’s The Spirit, which means there’s no stopping it now. The latest mostly black-and-white image is a sort of collage of all those past posters, with weird sex-chat lines scrawled across the actresses’ faces. Click to enlarge, and start practicing your Rocky Horror-esque responses to … Continued

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MTV Scoffs At Scarjo’s Spirit Demotion From Surgeon To Secretary

It’s a bad sign for Frank Miller’s movie adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit when MTV’s own movie-promo special Spoilers feels the need to explain how much cooler the comic was. In this clip, MTV highlights two of the “Ladies Of The Spirit,” then notes how Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson) is a nuclear physicist and … Continued

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Heroes And Strangely Shaped Space Commanders Rule This Week’s Comics

In a week that sees the comic book shelves swamped with familiar names from TV, movies and, yes, even comic books themselves, the most interesting release is possibly something that you’ve never heard of before. It’s almost as if science fiction is all about the future again with this week’s New Comics We Crave! If … Continued

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More Watchmen Ending Details, And A Telltale Transformers Toy Pic

MTV premiered its new quarterly movie show Spoilers on Friday night, and it looks like they’re a little unclear on the concept. Taylor Lautner wears a wig in Twilight? That’s a major spoiler, worthy of a flashing banner! Luckily, we’ve got some real spoilers here: Zack Snyder explains a bit more about the controversial changes … Continued

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Dollhouse Script Pages, And A Major Doctor Who Revelation

Some of our craziest Transformers spoilers turned out to be 100 percent true — at least according to another set of unreliable sources. Not only that, but we read a ton of pages from the script of Dollhouse episode seven, including a weird dominatrix moment. Meanwhile, one of the stars of the Doctor Who Christmas … Continued

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What Horrors Will Frank Miller Bring To The Catwalk?

Frank Miller reinvented noir with Sin City — and now he’s doing the same for fashion with his new movie The Spirit. New stills show a parade of models dressed in lightning bolt eyeliner, giant fur coats and kimonos. And boy, is it a “whole lotta’ look.” I’m terrified to think of the fashion spreads … Continued