miller time
In a cry for help not-so-curiously coinciding with this week's
surge in comics-to-film blockbusters, Lionsgate
announced Tuesday that it plans to bump up Frank Miller's adaptation of
The Spirit from Jan. 16, 2009, to Dec. 25 of this year. And why not? Flanked by fellow Christmas Day releases
Bedtime Stories (an Adam Sandler "laffer") and Fox's wobbly Jennifer Aniston/Owen Wilson comedy
Marley and Me (not to mention the expanded release of Ron Howard's
Frost/Nixon), the Will Eisner crime-fighter is about as safe a late year counter-programming bet as the studio will get. But are there — gulp —
Oscar hopes?
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