<![CDATA[Defamer: The Spirit]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/defamer.com.png <![CDATA[Defamer: The Spirit]]> http://defamer.com/tag/the spirit http://defamer.com/tag/the spirit <![CDATA[ Avengers, Sexy Nurses Deck the Halls as 'The Spirit' Moved to Christmas ]]> thespirit_mycityscreams.jpgIn 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?

God, we hope not. While we're sure Ken Tucker will be chiming in any minute now with his Iron Man vs. Spirit early Oscar-race handicapping, we have no doubt that Lionsgate will keep this one fairly straightforward — perhaps an ironic marketing surge positioning Scareltt Johansson "for your consideration" as Sexiest Nurse, or maybe Gabriel Macht as Most Overmatched Leading Man. In any case, we salute a studio with the balls to move a release up a month while the rest of the world makes excuses for its delays. We've already suggested Disney should be so bold. Pussies.

]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 13:20:00 PDT STV http://defamer.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=388214&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ 'Sexy Nurse' Photos of Scarlett Johansson Could Be Sexier, Nursier ]]> scarjo_sexy_nurse.jpgLanding somewhere between her "slutty college journalist" from Scoop and her "miscast blond enabler" from The Black Dahlia, photos of Scarlett Johansson's "sexy nurse" get-up in The Spirit leaked online late Tuesday to a bit of mixed industry reaction. Featuring Johansson as femme fatale Silken Floss, the shots appear culled from a wardrobe/hair/make-up test for Frank Miller's upcoming adaptation of the classic comic; as such, distributor Lionsgate (and its lawyers) are up in arms while the rest of us worry about the long-term setbacks to sexy nurses everywhere.

While the pictures do evoke a sort of kinky, Halloween-meets-Abu Ghraib appeal if you stare at them long enough, the expressionless starlet's turn as garden-variety fetish model leaves us wanting more — and not "more" as in "We can't wait to see this," but rather, "Why isn't the mannequin in this mug shot turning us on?" Claiming copyright infringement, reps for Lionsgate instantly issued a cease-and-desist notice to yank the photos, to which the editors at Hollywood Newsroom replied: "They're newsworthy.... Fuck off." See? Now that's sexy.

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