Concept Art From Brad Bird's The Spirit Adaptation That Never Happened
He's now an Oscar-winning director but first, Brad Bird was just a fan trying to get a classic comic made into a movie.Read about Brad Bird The Spirit here.
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This Week In DVD: The Reader, The Spirit, And More
This Week in DVD is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. Please don't take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they're meant not to be reviews but rather previews that include the…
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South Park Takes On Watchmen And The Dark Knight
Last night's episode of South Park took aim at Watchmen, The Dark Knight, The Spirit and the new trend in Hollywood to produce darker superhero movies. Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns even makes a cameo. Watch a clip above or the full episode on SouthParkStudios.com.
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LOL: For Your Consideration - Frank Miller's The Spirit
Our friends at Total Film sent over this mock "For Your Consideration" trailer advertising Frank Miller's The Spirit for The Razzie's Worst Movie of the Year Award.
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Roger Ebert Bitchslaps The Spirit
Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert on Frank Miller's The Spirit: "The Spirit is mannered to the point of madness. There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material." Read the full review on RogerEbert.com.
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LOL: One Critic Calls The Spirit One Of The Best Movies Of The Year
/Film reader Koorck sends over the below new television advertisement for Frank Miller's The Spirit, which includes a quote calling it "one of the best films of the year!" But wait? The early reviews pegged Frank Miller's comic book movie adaptation as somewhere between the worst movie of all time, or one of the worst…
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Early Buzz: Frank Miller's The Spirit Is Worse Than Expected
The first movie reviews of Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit have begun to hit the interwebs, and it doesn't look good. Variety: "Frank Miller's solo writing-directing debut plunges into a watery grave early on and spends roughly the next 100 minutes gasping for air. Pushing well past the point of self-parody" ...…
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The Origin Of The Spirit
Lionsgate has released a new featurette for Frank Miller's big screen adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit. In "The Origin of The Spirit", Frank Miller explains where the character came from, the historical significance of Will Eisner and how he became involved with the film adaptation. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/spiritorigin.flv 470 196] You can watch the clip in…
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Frank Miller's The Spirit Movie Trailer #2
Lionsgate has released a new trailer for Frank Miller's The Spirit. I'm really not sure what to make of this movie. Some of the shots and sequences look incredibly cool, while others look like a bunch of actors dressed up on some green screen soundstage. You have the promise of sexy women, but a PG-13…
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New Posters: Frank Miller's The Spirit
UGO has two new posters for Frank Miller's The Spirit. It's amazing how well the marketing department at Lionsgate has been able to promote this movie. You would have no indication from any of the production photos, posters or trailers, that the film is nearly as horrible as the clips presented at Comic Con.
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New Photos: Frank Miller's The Spirit
/Film reader Christopher M sent over these new photos from Frank Miller's The Spirit, which hits theaters on December 25th 2008. I'll admit, some of these photos look really bad ass, but I'm still not convinced due to the horrible showing Lionsgate had at Comic Con. More after the jump. Official Plot Synopsis: Adapted from…
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The Spirit: Uniting Divided Fanboys In Hate Since 2008
Minutes after the panel for Frank Miller's green screen opus,The Spirit, was over at Comic Con, the Internet exploded like a million snarky bottle rockets, sending up enlightened texts like, "The Spirit, LOL, looks like Sin Shitty," and the trusty "EPIC FAIL!" Yes, on that marvelous day, the vista view enjoyed from the confines of…
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Video: Comic Con Day 3 Wrap Up
On Friday afternoon at Comic Con, Peter Sciretta and David Chen of /Film are joined by Kelvin and El Mayimbe of Latino Review and Vic from Screenrant to talk about the atrocity that was The Spirit, the unexpected surprise of The Wolfman and the awesome Watchmen footage. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/comicconday3.flv 300 226]
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/Filmcast Episode 8: Hellboy 2
In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, and Adam debate whether Robert Downey Jr. would make a good Sherlock Holmes, celebrate Jon Favreau's return to Iron Man 2, and delve deeply into the cultural phenomenon that is Step Up 2: The Streets. Also, an in-depth review of Hellboy 2. Special guest Dave3 joins…
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The Spirit Movie Trailer
A full length trailer for Frank Miller’s The Spirit has been released onto the web. My first impression is that of disappointment. I was more impressed by the previously released teaser trailer. A lot of this film was shot on a stage, and judging from this trailer - it feels like it. Gone is the…
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The Spirit On Total Film
The August issue of Total Film features Frank Miller’s The Spirit on the cover. It features an exclusive look at The Spirit and Guy Ritchie’s Rocknrolla and two free posters: Star Wars: The Clone Wars and The Dark Knight.
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Four Talking Posters From The Spirit
When I first heard that Yahoo had talking posters from Frank Miller’s The Spirit, I thought to myself “Cool, this is the future of movie marketing”. I mean, eventually one-sheet displays will be replaced with flatscreen televisions which can easily switch in and out various movie posters. Say a screening of The Happening just gets…
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First Official Look: Samuel L. Jackson In The Spirit
The latest issue of Comic-Con Magazine has the first official photo of Samuel L. Jackson as The Spirit arch-enemy the Octopus. They also have an interview with Frank Miller talking about the upcoming comic book adaptation. Click to enlarge. The Spirit hits theaters on Christmas 2008.
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Lionsgate's Early Christmas Present: Frank Miller's The Spirit
Lionsgate has decided to move the release date of Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit up from January 16th next year to Christmas Day (December 25th 2008). Apparently Lionsgate's president Tom Ortenberg decided to change the release date after he saw the reaction to the film's teaser trailer at the New York Comic…
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Page 2 For April 21, 2008
There has been so much news in the last few days that we just haven't been able to get to all of it. Here is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Yahoo Movies has the first character photo featuring Eva…
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The Spirit Teaser Movie Trailer - What Do You Think?
Lionsgate has released the official teaser trailer for Frank Miller's big screen adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit. I'm actually surprised at how well Miller has been able to translate his visual style to the big screen. I was, and still am, quite skeptical in Miller's directing ablities, especially with Robert Rodriguez not at his…
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The Spirit Movie Poster. Sick!
Update: Watch The Spirit Teaser Trailer Here. Lionsgate just released the new one-sheet for Frank Miller's The Spirit featuring the film's signature catchphrase, "My City Screams," spelled out in noir-ish sooted city brick. Really well executed, don't cha think, and this is merely the early lead-up to the movie's January 2009 release. I'm sure the…
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Photos: Editing The Wrestler, The Happening, Street Fighter Storyboards, The Spirit Billboard
So many photos, so little time. I've bunches these all together to save on the room. Enjoy. FilmSchoolRejects has a photo of one of the new billboards in Los Angeles advertising The Spirit. Much cooler than the crappy production photos released a couple days back. There are supposedly more billboards like this around Los Angeles,…
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First Look: Scarlett Johansson And Samuel L. Jackson In The Spirit [High Res]
Last week set photos from Frank Miller's big screen adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit leaked online, leaving some fans disappointed. Update: Today Lionsgate has released two new production High Resolution photos, both of which desperately scream "See, the movie looks like Sin City, I swear it really does, don't look at those other unauthorized…
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Set Photos: Will Eisner's The Spirit
Photos Removed at the Request of Lionsgate Forty new photos from the set of Frank Miller's big screen adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit have leaked online at Dark Horizons. I've included the ten most interesting ones after the jump to give you a good taste. I'm still very unsure about this film, and these…
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Frank Miller's The Spirit Movie Posters
If you don't have your contacts in, let me type you out the taglines from these three new posters for Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit. "My City Screams. She Is My Lover. And I Am Her Spirit." I'd post the high-res versions but Superhero Hype said they'd put my little hands in a blender!…
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Frank Miller's The Spirit Getting Two Sequels?
The word over at Superhero Hype is the Lionsgate has already negotiated with Frank Miller to direct two sequels to his Sin City-style green screen comic book caper The Spirit. If true, this would indicate tremendously sweet buzz on the project, as the main character, a detective who fakes his death to more vigilantly pursue…
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