This is from April. Sorry if it's been posted before and/or you've
read it already.

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  From The L.A. Times http://tinyurl.com/ceamqn

For 'X-Files,' the truth is still out there ... but what about a third
film?
12:05 PM PT, Apr 27 2009

Liver-eating contortionist Eugene Tooms  wasn’t there.  Neither were
the Peacock Brothers. Extraterrestrials? Nope, not a one. But even
without those memorable characters of any of the other paranormal
beasties, shadow-government operatives or little green men from "The X-
Files," fans of the spooky franchise turned out in force last week at
The Grove in Los Angeles to question and cheer X-creator Chris Carter
and key writer Frank Spotnitz.

The two longtime collaborators (or is that conspirators?) were joined
by Matt Hurwitz, a co-author of the lavish new book “The Complete X-
Files: Behind the Series, Myths and the Movies” (Insight Editions,
$49.95). The event was on the third floor of Barnes & Noble and a
crowd that went into triple-digits was eager to get autographs and
answers, many of which were delivered by Carter with his wry, mellow-
surfer baritone.

Is Walter Skinner still infected with nanotechnology? “He’s been to
the doctors a number of times.”

Is the Agent Dana Scully immortal? “It’s kind of true, if you think
about it. I mean, she’ll never die. She beat cancer.”

Any plans to take "Millennium" to the big screen? “That seems to be
the question all the fans want answered. Nothing has been discussed.”

Carter’s favorite episode? “Beyond the Sea” and “Home” make the short
list, but, he insists, he has a lot of favorites.

When is the series going to be available on Blu-ray? “There’s a
technical problem ... we just have to figure out how to solve it.”

But the pervading question of the night centered on one yearning hope:
A third installment of “The X-Files” as a movie franchise, which would
pick up where last year's "X-Files: I Want to Believe” left off. In an
interview after the book signing, Carter was elusive ... but he did
give fans a reason to believe.

Noting the lackluster commercial success of the second film, Carter
said the venture was hurt by its timing. The U.S. release “was
foolish, opening a week after the blockbuster hit “The Dark Knight ...
it was really the worst weekend to open any movie.”

The film pulled in an anemic $21 million in the U.S., which fell short
of expectations for a film that cost $30 million to make. It did go
on, however, to make $47 million in foreign markets. “The movie did a
lot of business worldwide so, I think, it’s really up to Fox to
decide,”  he said.

Despite the lackluster grosses, there’s no denying the impact of the
television series and its characters  on pop culture.  It demonstrated
the potential of what the sci-fi genre could achieve on the small
screen.  And though recent sci-fi series like "Battlestar
Galactica" (a show Carter “likes”) and "X-Files"-influenced "Fringe"
have picked up the torch, Carter said crime dramas have handcuffed
TV’s limited programming schedules for scripted dramas.

“When you look at what’s on television right now, there’s a little bit
of science fiction, but there’s mostly cop procedurals,” said the 52-
year-old Carter.  “People see every episode of 'Law & Order,' and all
its incarnations, so I don’t know … if you do science fiction on
television it’s a little bit of a gamble sometimes.”

But, hey, if that doesn’t work, there’s always the Internet, right? "X-
Files" fans have proven there’s an audience out there for all the fan
content they’ve created. From fan-fiction to mash-up YouTube videos,
people have taken notice. Even the actors that inspired the content,
Spotnitz noted.

“You know, there’s a story that David [Duchovny] told when we were
doing the movie last year,” Spotnitz said, “about how Gillian had seen
a YouTube compilation of all their kisses and David saw that and said
it actually affected his performance in the film because it was like
reminder of the power of their relationship. So it just tells you how
meaningful they are. It really is part of what the 'X-Files' is now.
It’s just the way the fans re-interpret it.”

And with the release of the book -- practically an encyclopedia of
“The X-Files” franchise -- fans will now have more to interpret,
because as one fan said, “The truth will always be out there.”

-- Yvonne Villarreal

Lorena Gale passed
away on Sunday the 21st from cancer. She was an actress from Vancouver
and was in the X-Files episodes "Shadows", "One Breath", and "Elegy",
as well as having a part in I Want To Believe. She had an impressive sci-fi
resume which included the recurring part of Elosha on the Battlestar Galactica
series, and parts in The Chronicles of Riddick, Smallville, The Outer Limits,
Millennium, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Slither, and many others. She was
also a director, writer, and an established playwright, winning awards for her
plays Angélique and Je me souviens. She leaves behind a husband and child.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301874/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena_Gale
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Gale%2C%20Lorena





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Frank Spotnitz, long-time writer and producer on The X-Files, posted his own
memorial to Kim Manners on his blog tonight.



Kim
had a blazing intensity that inspired everyone -- writers, producers,
actors and crew. "Kick it in the ass!" he'd say to us. And "I love
you," really meaning it. As long as he'd been a director, he never lost
his passion for his work. Every time he got a script, he gave it his
all. He was driven to execute what he saw in his mind's eye in the most
powerful and beautiful way he could. On "The X-Files," the friendly
sparring between Kim and Rob Bowman to see who could out-direct the
other was a beautiful competition between two fiercely talented
friends. Kim was an incredible force of life. It is hard for me to
believe or accept that he is gone.

Frank Spotnitz
http://www.biglight.com/blog/2009/01/kim-manners-1950-2009.html






















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http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/01/supernatural-an.html

'Supernatural' and 'X Files' producer-director Kim Manners has died


Jan 26, 2009, 10:09 PM | by Ken Tucker
						 Categories:  Television


It's been reported that Kim Manners, a prolific, highly imaginative director and
producer of TV shows including Supernatural and The X Files, died on Sunday. The
cause was cancer.


Manners was among the people who helped Supernatural creator Eric Kripke define
the invitingly dark visual palette of Supernatural;
he directed numerous episodes of the series, including every season
finale--crucial entries in the series that set up cliffhangers which
moved the mythology of the series forward.


For The X Files, Manners was credited as a producer for
some of that series' greatest episodes, including the Emmy-winning
"Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose,"
and directed such memorable entries as the creepy-funny "Leonard
Betts."


Manners was a subtle artist working in a commercial medium that
doesn't always prize such qualities. (Manners also directed a number of
episodes of the terrific 1993-94 cult series The Adventures of Brisco County,
Jr.) He was lucky to have found sympathetic creators to collaborate with, such
as Kripke and X Files' Chris Carter. And they were lucky to work with him.







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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438684,00.html

David Duchovny, who checked out of a rehabilitation center for sex
addiction earlier this month, has been separated from wife Tea Leoni
for several months, People magazine reported.

"In light of continuous speculation over the lives and marriage of Tea
Leoni and David Duchovny, the couple has confirmed that they have in
fact been separated for several months," the statement, released by
their reps, says. "The couple had hoped to keep this separation
private for the sake of their children."

According to a report in the U.K.'s Daily Mail, the reason for the
separation had little to do with Duchovny's addiction, and was instead
the result of his discovery that Leoni was having a relationship with
Oscar-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton, 53.

Duchovny reportedly uncovered explicit text messages on Leoni's cell
phone from Thornton, who was previously married to actress Angelina Jolie.

Five-times married Thornton met Leoni when they made a comedy film
together earlier this year called Manure, the Mail said.

Duchonvny and Leoni have two children — daughter Madelaine West, 9,
and son Kyd, 6 . The couple married in 1997.

http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/10/66769/

Gillian Anderson is a mom again! The "X-Files" star and her boyfriend Mark
Griffiths gave birth to a baby boy named Felix Griffiths, according to
People.com. Per the
star's rep, Felix was born Oct. 15 in London and weighed in at 6
pounds, 15 ounces. This is the second child for the 40-year-old star
with Griffiths, joining their one-year-old son Oscar. Gillian also also has a
13-year-old daughter named Piper from her previous marriage.

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'X-Files' creator Chris Carter hospitalized for exhaustion
Sep 3, 2008, 07:24 PM | by Whitney Pastorek


Chris Carter, writer, producer, and director of The X-Files: I Want to
Believe, was hospitalized on Tuesday due to "physical exhaustion and an
acute sleeping disorder," a source close to Carter tells EW.com. The source says
the hospitalization stems from Carter "working on multiple films back
to back over a two year period" -- the recently released X-Files sequel
and Fencewalker, a covert project he is rumored to have begun shooting
earlier this year. He is expected to recover quickly.




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On Aug 31, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Laura wrote:
>>
>> For anyone that would like to send a comment to Johnston and Murphy
>> for dropping David's ad campaign, here is the link
>>
>> http://www.johnstonmurphy.com/about_contact.aspx
>>
>> Laura
>>








For those I've cc'd who may not know, Johnston & Murphy, who signed DD
to an ad campaign a month ago, have dropped him. You can leave
comments about this at the link mentioned above, if you feel inclined.

I'm mailing mine, since my comments are about the length of "Gone with
the Wind." LOL
If you want to read what I wrote, it's below my sig.

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To:

Jonathan D. Caplan
Senior Vice President;
Chief Executive Officer,
Genesco Branded Group
President, Johnston & Murphy

1415 Murfreesboro Road, Suite 264
Nashville, TN 37217


Dear Mr. Caplan,

I just found out that corporate has dropped actor David Duchovny, whom
they signed in July to appear in an upcoming ad campaign for Johnston
& Murphy.

I want J&M to know that I believe its action is reprehensible even if
it is totally in keeping with the negative image most Americans have
about corporations. If someone has a problem and gets help for it,
they are pre-judged by corporate America. (It's a good thing J&M isn't
in charge of trials in America. Everyone would be presumed guilty and
sentenced, even before being proven guilty. A rather ironic viewpoint,
since many of today's criminals are white-collar, corporation managers.)

J&M's actions in firing Mr. Duchovny are shallow and expose its
management's lack of moral backbone. Compared to J&M, squids have more
spine.

I realize that J&M's management isn't bothered by its business
policy's lack of moral consideration and human sympathy. However, I
live in Tennessee, and I know that at least one person in management
probably considers him/herself a "good Christian person" (a phrase you
hear a lot of people in the South say of themselves). It might even go
so far as the founders of the company considering it a good
"Christian" company. However, I also know that the actions of many of
these "good Christians" are about as authentic as Dolly Parton's
breasts. A true "good Christian" would turn their other cheek but not
their back on someone in trouble.

And let's not forget that the current corporate way of thinking
actually helps people in crisis stay that way. If a celebrity
spokesperson is an alcoholic, drug addict or sex addict, it's fine --
as long as they don't publicly acknowledge it. Therefore, there's a
lot of pressure for someone who needs help not to seek it because of
the negative financial impact it will have.

Through their actions, corporations award those who continue to ignore
or hide their addictions, helping add to the aura of shame that
surrounds addiction. Instead, corporations should be awarding those
who publicly acknowledge their problems and seek help. I commend Mr.
Duchovny for not only admiting to and seeking help for his addiction,
but doing it knowing it would probably cost him financially as well as
emotionally.

But let's forget J&M's lack of human decency. After all, it's a
company, and all it really cares about is the bottom line: money. The
Duchovny situation highlights how J&M's lack of foresight prevented
this from being a situation that would have positively affected its
bottom line.

So let's consider two scenarios: Shoppers are about to enter into a
J&M store when they see a poster of David Duchovny in the window. At
the bottom of the poster, in small text, reads: "J&M is proud to have
David Duchovny represent our company, and the thoughts and prayers of
every J&M employee is with him and his family at this critical time."

I can guarantee that the majority of the time, shoppers would continue
to enter the store. They may enquire about what's happened to
Duchonvy. They might even make a joke about it or express surprise
about it, but let's be realistic: They're not going to stop shopping.
In fact, some probably would voice their appreciation of J&M's support
of Duchovny.

However, now let's consider shoppers about to enter a J&M store with
the same poster of Duchovny on the window, except this time at the
bottom of the poster are the words: "J&M has decided to drop Mr.
Duchovny one month after hiring him because he's having personal
problems. We don't support anyone who's going through difficult times."

Anyone who's gone through any type of difficult time in their life
(and who hasn't) will think twice about continuing through the door.

But alas, corporate "mentality" is limited and unable to conceive of
the possibility that they could improve sales by publicly standing
behind someone whom just a month before they said they were "thrilled"
to have and embodied "success and confidence, along with a great sense
of style." It's too bad J&M doesn't have a great sense of loyalty.

The positive spin that would have resulted from J&M standing behind
Mr. Duchovny in his time of personal crisis would have made news
because it would have reversed the (apparently correct) image the
American public has of corporate "suits" as disloyal and caring only
about money and not people.

Now, instead of wanting to shop at a company that publicly supports
its employees (which, in a sense, Duchovny was), I will avoid like the
plague that and any company that's so willing to throw someone in
crisis "under the bus."

For me, one good thing has come of J&M's decision. As a journalist,
it's given me a great topic for an editiorial. And, if I do write
about corporate (dis)loyalty in America, you can bet that Johnston &
Murphy's lack of corporate spine will be the main topic.

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Can't say I'm totally surprised, having heard this years ago from a
reliable source. I hope he can get the help he needs.

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  From People.com
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20222358,00.html


David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation center for sex addiction,
his lawyer, Stanton "Larry" Stein, tells PEOPLE exclusively.

"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex
addiction," the actor says in an exclusive statement. "I ask for
respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this
situation as a family."

Duchovny, 48, has been married to actress Téa Leoni since 1997. They
have two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6.
###

I saw this on another list.






Aug. 21st, 2008 at 5:24 PM
From under the table of the FOX executive office, we've heard murmurs of a?
possible schedule for the third "X-Files" movie that will be focusing on the?
shows beloved Mytharc. The movie, untitled and currently setting up?
production dates in early 2012, will be the last for veteran stars Gillian?
Anderson and David Duchovny who recently celebrated the mediocre success of?
the second "X-Files" flick aptly titled "I Want to Believe."
Series creator and part time director Chris Carter has often commented on?
his desire to take the former cult TV show known as "The X-Files" into a?
long running movie franchise, but when numbers for "the X-Files: I Want to?
Believe" started rolling in, the studio hardly batted an eye. With a?
disappointing opening weekend of only 11 million domestically, many deemed?
the "X-Files" a beaten horse, but when the international market started?
producing strong numbers the rumors of possible XF3 production flooded in.?
With almost 60 million worldwide FOX has taken the dollar signs to mean?
security in a low budget XF3. MovieBlogger08 takes into consideration that?
FOX has accepted that the marketing mistake of pitting the long dead?
"X-Files" against mega hit "Dark Knight" played a role in the lower box?
office take. All things being considered, XF3 is in fact, on its way and?
sure to delight fans of the long running alien conspiracy.

http://movieblogger08.livejournal.com/?






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If you haven't big to Big Light, Frank Spotnitz's blog and forum site,
go there and check out the convos. You can let Fox know if you liked
the film and want another one.

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Big Light <mail@...>
> Date: August 4, 2008 3:16:53 PM EDT
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> Subject: On Big Light: Thank You Letters to Fox!
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> A message to all members of Big Light
>
> Have you guys seen this thread on the network?
>
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>
> If you loved the movie and want to let those in charge know,
> everything you need to know about writing a letter to Fox is in that
> thread.  And as always, thank you a million times over for the hard
> work and dedication! You guys truly rock.
>
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> Alison
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Oh, ye of little faith. ;)

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On Aug 4, 2008, at 1:02 PM, avatar1701@... wrote:

> Oh, my apologies.  Carter was just trying to do his duty to convert
> the unbelievers.  He needs a new catechism.
>
> Avir

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/aug/04/xfiles.faith


Why the new X-Files film is a misunderstood but compelling tract for
our times

Mulder and Scully aren't just trying in vain to revive a dated
franchise. This time, they're in search of a remedy for the spiritual
malaise of the West

      * David Cox
      * guardian.co.uk,
      * Monday August 4 2008


The X-Files: I Want to Believe has bombed at the box office and
disappointed not just film critics but also fans of the iconic TV
show. It has also puzzled them. The programme's first big-screen spin-
off, ten years ago, was in essence just an inflated episode of the
small-screen
series. As such, it went down well enough, particularly with
aficionados.
This time, however, the brand's originator, Chris Carter, has
abandoned the much-loved phantasmagoric world he created, with its
ever-ambiguous narratives. In its place, he seems at first sight to be
offering no more than a humdrum, body-parts-harvesting serial-killer
procedural. Why?

The clue's in the title, or rather the subtitle. It isn't "The Truth
is Out There", because Carter has clearly decided that, after all, the
truth probably isn't out there and that whether it is or not is no
longer the point. Nowadays, there's something more important than
tilting at mystery. It's something we've lost sight of, and our
salvation depends on getting it back.

The X-Files TV series and it first film spin-off were born of an era
of pre-9/11 innocence. Their mission was to titillate the comfortable
by conjuring up fanciful perils. Nowadays, we have no more need of
fictional chimera: we face real threats a-plenty, ranging from
terrorism to economic collapse and climate change. When it comes to
dealing with them, however, we're paralysed by a loss of faith. We no
longer believe in our leaders, our media, our values, our way of life
or even our fellow-citizens. As a result, we are sinking into apathy,
cynicism and despair, instead of confronting our demons.

Once his TV series and its associated activities had come to an end,
Carter took five years out. He went surfing, learned to fly and
climbed mountains. In addition, he says, he came "closer to faith". He
seems to have returned to the X-Files destined to reinvent the
franchise for a new age in the light of his own epiphany, consciously
or otherwise.

In his film, the message is laid on with what at first seems like
excessive and unpersuasive zeal. The wintry Virginia landscape is as
unforgivingly frozen as our own faithless world. In enforced
retirement, Mulder clings stubbornly to his belief that there are more
things in heaven and earth than Horatio dreams of. This leads him to
endorse the apparently psychic visions of a paedophile priest, who in
turn trusts in God's forgiveness. Scully is the sceptic on all of
these counts, but puts her faith in untried medical treatments (she's
now a doctor) and the God of the Roman Catholics.

By which of this rag-bag of beliefs are we expected to set store, we
ask through much of the action. However, as in the best police
procedurals, purport awaits the denouement. It turns out that the
priest may be a faker who's in on the crime. Or, he may not. Faith
doesn't deliver truth. It doesn't necessarily deliver happy outcomes,
either. The fate of the child that Scully is treating remains
unresolved.

Where we should actually place our faith turns out to be up to us. The
Foxes (20th Century and Mulder) not only challenge the claims of
truth, but neglect equally to endorse freedom, justice, religion or
the American way. The quest for belief itself, however, is now so
serious, apparently, that we mustn't squander it on indulgences, like
the extra-terrestrials of the TV show. Faith is the key to fighting
crucial battles. We cannot simply duck out of these, since the
darkness finds us, not we it. Faith is what preserves our ability to
press on in the face of the horror of it all. We must therefore
embrace it, not scorn it.

Trite? Corny beyond belief? Well, try "Love thy neighbour". Naive or
not, The X-Files' message addresses the troubles of our times. There
may well be an appetite for it. The tide of Obamamania suggests that
lots of people are indeed seeking a repository for faith. Those who
pay attention to this film, instead of hankering for the solace that
its TV progenitor provided in what is now a faraway age, will be
rewarded. They will find that it fulfils the task it has set itself
with unusual skill, force and panache. If imparting a moral with
intelligence, precision and passion were the test, Gillian Anderson's
performance would win her an Oscar.

Show faith. Ignore the critics, and go and see The X-Files. It might
do you good. And don't leave as soon as the credits roll, or you'll
miss one of the most affecting cinematic scenes of all time.

###

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Monday August 04
2008. It was last updated at 11:56 on August 04 2008.
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While reading a New York Times article on weekend box office biz for
the current crop of releases, I came across this paragraph:

The weekend was not as kind to 20th Century Fox. The studio’s “X-
Files: I Want to Believe,” a big-screen revival of the hit television
series, sold an estimated $10.2 million in tickets in North America.
It landed in fourth place, narrowly ahead of “Journey to the Center of
the Earth,” which sold $9.5 million in tickets — $72 million total
since its July 11 release. Chris Aronson, Fox’s senior vice president
for distribution, said that “X-Files” had also sold $9.3 million in
tickets in its limited overseas release, and as a result, the $30
million movie “will be more than profitable at the end of the day.”

Which means when considering the rest of its run in the U.S. and
overseas and DVD rentals and sales, look for an XF3 in the future.

To read the entire article, go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/movies/28box.html?ex=1217822400&en=4a199de0249\
60d9f&ei=5070&emc=eta1

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Someone on another listed pointed out this review, which says
everything I believe -- and want to believe -- about the new movie, as
well as the fans and the fandom.


http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080720/ap_en_mo/people_gillian_anderson

Gillian Anderson says getting back into Dana Scully's character for "The
X-Files: I Want to Believe" was harder than she expected.

"It was a little odd," Anderson told Newsweek for its July 21 issue. "It was
more disconcerting than I anticipated. I expected it to be a breeze. But I tried
so hard since the series ended to do things as different as possible from the
character.

"When I was faced with making acting decisions on that character again, my brain
started backfiring and internally combusting," she said.

Anderson, who is pregnant with her third child, said she has also been spending
time buying and selling houses in London, California, Canada and elsewhere.

"I like doing up houses and getting into the architecture," she told the
magazine.

"The X-Files" ran from 1993-2002 on the Fox network. Anderson reunites with
co-star David Duchovny for "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," the second feature
film spun off from the paranormal series.

The movie will be in theaters July 25.





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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1029830/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Gillian-Ander\
son-Nicole-Kidman-Roman-Polanski-.html

Gillian's new role is one for the X Files Last updated at 11:33 PM on 26th June
2008


A capacity to shock: Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson will take on one of the most controversial roles an actress can
play on the stage.
She will star as Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, which opens at the Donmar
Warehouse Theatre in Covent Garden next spring.
A
new version of the drama has been written by Zinnie Harris and will be
directed by Kfir Yefet. More than a century after Henrik Ibsen wrote A
Doll's House, where Nora famously, walks out on her husband and
children, that defiant act still has the capacity to shock.'How
does a woman... how can a woman... abandon her children like that?'
Gillian wondered, when we discussed A Doll's House on Wednesday in
London.
The actress, who has two children and is pregnant with
her third, added: 'To some of us, it just feels absolutely shocking. I
couldn't imagine it, and yet it happens all the time for one reason or
another.'

And in between preparing for A Doll's House and
her new baby, Gillian is waiting for the release, in August, of X
Files: I Want To Believe, a big-screen movie in which, after a break of
several years, she reprises her role as agent Dana Scully. 'They've all
matured, which is such a funny word to use because of course we've
matured  -  we're ten years older in X Files, and look it,' she said.
The
part of Scully made her a star, but she has more than proved her acting
abilities in other work, particularly the film House Of Mirth and her
spectacular performance as Lady Dedlock in the award-winning BBC TV
serial of Bleak House.
But she likes to return to the stage even
though, she says, it terrifies her. 'Every time I put up my hand (to go
on stage again), it's the other arm trying to pull my hand down,' she
said, laughing. 'It's like: "What do you think you're doing?" But it's
so rewarding when I do theatre.' Certainly not in monetary
terms, and not at the Donmar, where she'll be on the Equity union
minimum of around £400-£500 a week. 'I still choose to get involved in
theatre. It's important enough to me in my life, that I think I'd
choose it regardless of whether I could feed my children,' she joked.




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This article makes it sound like she's had three children with Mark Griffiths,
but I think what they mean (or don't realize) is that it's her third child
total, second with him, but whatever.

From IMDB news...

Anderson Finally Lands Her Dream Role

1 July 2008 11:49 PM, PDT

The X-Files star Gillian Anderson has finally secured funding for her dream role
- she will produce and star in a film about legendary war correspondent Martha
Gellhorn.

The 39-year-old actress has long been an admirer of Ernest Hemingway's ex-wife,
who died in 1998, and her production company recently acquired the rights to the
biography Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life.

But despite initial difficulties finding a financial backer for the project,
Anderson has now reportedly been given the green light for the film.

A source tells British newspaper the Daily Express, "Gillian has been desperate
to play this role. We were beginning to wonder whether it would ever happen.
Gillian has rarely been so excited about a part."

The movie will reportedly begin production next year after the star gives birth
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The actor who played Scully's father, Don Davis, passed away June 29th. He was
also well-known to sci-fi fans as General Hammond on Stargate.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2008/06/don_s._davis_1942-2008.shtml

Odd that like his character on the X-Files, he also passed away from a heart
attack at a relatively young age. He was only sixty-five. And like Captain
Scully, his ashes will be scattered at sea.

"Hello, Starbuck. It's Ahab. People would say to me, life is short -
kids, they grow up fast, before you know it, it's over. I never
listened. To me life went at a proper pace, there were rewards until
the moment that I knew, I understood, I would never see you again. My
little girl. Then my life felt as if it had been the length of one
breath, one heartbeat. I never knew how much I loved my daughter until
could never tell her. At that moment I would have traded every medal,
every commendation, every promotion for one more second with you. We'll
be together again, Starbuck. But not now. Soon."





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I'm not sure how I missed this news... but while
checking imdb I noticed that Mitch Pileggi is listed
in the cast for the new movie.

YAY!




      
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`X-Files' movie title is out there: `I Want to Believe'
Wednesday April 16 11:45 AM ET

The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.

The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be
called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series'
creator and the movie's director and co-writer, told The Associated
Press.

Distributor 20th Century Fox signed off on the title Wednesday.

The title is a familiar phrase for fans of the series that starred
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents chasing after
aliens and supernatural happenings. "I Want to Believe" was the
slogan on a poster Duchovny's UFO-obsessed agent Fox Mulder had
hanging in the cluttered basement office where he and Anderson's Dana
Scully worked.

"It's a natural title," Carter said in a telephone interview Tuesday
during a break from editing the film. "It's a story that involves the
difficulties in mediating faith and science. `I Want to Believe.' It
really does suggest Mulder's struggle with his faith."

"I Want to Believe" comes 10 years after the first film and six years
after the finale of the series, whose opening credits for much of its
nine-year run featured the catch-phrase "the truth is out there."

Due in theaters July 25, the movie will not deal with aliens or the
intricate mythology about interaction between humans and
extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, Carter said.

Instead, it casts Mulder and Scully into a stand-alone, earth-bound
story aimed at both serious "X-Files" fans and newcomers, he said.

"It has struck me over the last several years talking to college-age
kids that a lot of them really don't know the show or haven't seen
it," Carter said. "If you're 20 years old now, the show started when
you were 4. It was probably too scary for you or your parents
wouldn't let you watch it. So there's a whole new audience that might
have liked the show. This was made to, I would call it, satisfy
everyone."

Hardcore fans need not worry that the movie will be going back to
square one, though, Carter said. The movie will be true to the spirit
of the show and everything Mulder and Scully went through, he said.

"The reason we're even making the movie is for the rabid fans, so we
don't want to insult them by having to take them back through the
concept again," Carter said.

Carter said he settled on "I Want to Believe" from the time he and co-
writer Frank Spotnitz started on the screenplay. It took so long to
go public with it because studio executives wanted to make sure it
was a marketable title, he said.

The filmmakers have kept the story tightly under wraps to prevent
plot spoilers from leaking on the Internet, a phenomenon that barely
existed when the first movie came out in 1998.

"We went to almost comical lengths to keep the story a secret,"
Carter said. "That included allowing only the key crew members to
read the script, and they had to read it in a room that had video
cameras trained on them. It was a new experience."

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`X-Files' movie title is out there: `I Want to Believe'
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The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.

The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be
called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series'
creator and the movie's director and co-writer, told The Associated
Press.

Distributor 20th Century Fox signed off on the title Wednesday.

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The title is a familiar phrase for fans of the series that starred
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents chasing after
aliens and supernatural happenings. "I Want to Believe" was the
slogan on a poster Duchovny's UFO-obsessed agent Fox Mulder had
hanging in the cluttered basement office where he and Anderson's Dana
Scully worked.

"It's a natural title," Carter said in a telephone interview Tuesday
during a break from editing the film. "It's a story that involves the
difficulties in mediating faith and science. `I Want to Believe.' It
really does suggest Mulder's struggle with his faith."

"I Want to Believe" comes 10 years after the first film and six years
after the finale of the series, whose opening credits for much of its
nine-year run featured the catch-phrase "the truth is out there."

Due in theaters July 25, the movie will not deal with aliens or the
intricate mythology about interaction between humans and
extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, Carter said.

Instead, it casts Mulder and Scully into a stand-alone, earth-bound
story aimed at both serious "X-Files" fans and newcomers, he said.

"It has struck me over the last several years talking to college-age
kids that a lot of them really don't know the show or haven't seen
it," Carter said. "If you're 20 years old now, the show started when
you were 4. It was probably too scary for you or your parents
wouldn't let you watch it. So there's a whole new audience that might
have liked the show. This was made to, I would call it, satisfy
everyone."

Hardcore fans need not worry that the movie will be going back to
square one, though, Carter said. The movie will be true to the spirit
of the show and everything Mulder and Scully went through, he said.

"The reason we're even making the movie is for the rabid fans, so we
don't want to insult them by having to take them back through the
concept again," Carter said.

Carter said he settled on "I Want to Believe" from the time he and co-
writer Frank Spotnitz started on the screenplay. It took so long to
go public with it because studio executives wanted to make sure it
was a marketable title, he said.

The filmmakers have kept the story tightly under wraps to prevent
plot spoilers from leaking on the Internet, a phenomenon that barely
existed when the first movie came out in 1998.

"We went to almost comical lengths to keep the story a secret,"
Carter said. "That included allowing only the key crew members to
read the script, and they had to read it in a room that had video
cameras trained on them. It was a new experience."

A detail of a set visit to the XF2 Movie. Spoilers.

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/x_files_2_day_the_story_of_a_set_visit

Also on the same page are links to interviews with DD, GA, CC, and
Spotsy.

Remember DD's best buddy Jason Beghe who was in Darkness Falls, who
was a Scientologist and tried to get DD to become one?

Well, he's not a Scientologist anymore, and now he's pissed. NSFW
because of lots of cussing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07m-IvvpK2E&e

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=43992

http://community.livejournal.com/gayforga/24008.html

Warning: Slight spoilers!

http://movies.ign.com/articles/864/864969p1.html?RSSwhen2008-04-07_135600&RSSid=\
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While still not offering specifics, Spotnitz did tell
us this about the film: "It's scary. It's about Mulder
and Scully, very much. It's about them and their
relationship and who they are and it's a personal and
emotional movie too, in a way that the series rarely
could be, because we're not doing 24 episodes - we're
just doing this one standalone movie. And it's
designed to reward fans. It certainly touches upon
things that fans alone will appreciate. But [it's also
designed] to work for people who never saw The X-Files
- who were too young. That's what's most exciting,
honestly, is the chance to introduce these characters
to a new generation."

The show ended with Mulder and Scully's legal status
in a highly problematic place, and Spotnitz promised
that would not be ignored in the film. "We had to and
we wanted to address everything that a fan would say
'Well, what about that?' I think we've done that
without excluding anybody who never saw the show,"
Spotnitz explained, adding, "If you remember, in the
first movie there was a scene in a bar where Mulder
sort of drunkenly explains who he is. We've done it in
a very different way this time around, but I think
we've managed to make it work both for people who are
familiar and who are unfamiliar."
...
So might this be the beginning of a new series of
X-Files movies? When asked that question, Spotnitz
replied "Hopefully! That would be nice. We had such a
good time doing it, it would be nice to keep going."


      
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  LOS ANGELES, California (AP)  -- The truth about "The X-Files" sequel -- some
of it, anyway -- is now out there.
   "X-Files" creator Chris Carter, writer Frank Spotnitz and other crew members
gathered Wednesday to discuss the TV series -- and declassify some information
about the upcoming film.
  The popular Fox paranormal drama, which aired from 1993 to 2002, starred David
Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully
  "While this is not a mythology movie, it's true to everything that's come
before," Spotnitz said at the William S. Paley Television Festival. "It's true
to Mulder and Scully, who they are and where they would be this point in their
lives and all of the experiences that they've had."
  The series first made the leap to the big screen with 1998's "The X-Files:
Fight the Future." Plans for another film were grounded in 2005 when Carter sued
Fox over syndication profits for the show. The lawsuit was later settled.
  Carter, who also directs the new movie, said it takes place in the present and
uses a story envisioned when the series ended. While the show's sprawling alien
mythology isn't part of the plot, Carter said there is a reference to Scully's
seemingly supernatural son, William, who was born in season eight and later
given up for adoption.
  The film is due out July 25.
  Carter was tightlipped about the title.
  "I can't tell you," he said. "I know what I want it to be, but Fox has some
ideas of their own."


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Sunday » March 16 » 2008

Filming of The X-Files sequel wraps
Creator Chris Carter, star David Duchovny thank city after secret-
filled, three-month shoot

Glen Schaefer
The Province

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

CREDIT: Les Bazso - The Province
Star David Duchovny says he always wanted The X-Files to become a
feature-film franchise.

Goodbye, and thanks for all the aliens.

The cast and crew of the still-untitled X-Files feature film sequel
wrapped up work in Vancouver with a press conference yesterday, a
brief lifting of a curtain of secrecy that the production has
maintained through three months of filming.

"We've had lots of paparazzi," said writer-director Chris Carter. "In
Langley a couple of days ago a black SUV pulled up on the side of the
road and there was a long lens pointed at us."

The next day, pictures of stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson,
locked in a full-on kiss as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully,
appeared on Internet fansites alongside breathless speculation about
the characters' are-they-or-aren't-they romance.

"We staged that," Duchovny told reporters at the Sutton Place Hotel,
where media were informed Anderson would not attend due to illness.

"It's been a two-way street," says Carter of the prying eyes. "To
tell you the truth, I would like to make the movie secretly and put
it out there on July 25, have everybody get a gift they could open."

Duchovny finished work late the night before and was catching a plane
to Los Angeles yesterday. The rest of the crew were to finish by
week's end. The movie is a stand-alone story unconnected to the
series' ongoing conspiracy thread, but beyond that they're not saying
much.

"We're not doing an exercise in nostalgia to appeal to the fans of
the show," said co-writer and producer Frank Spotnitz. "We saw this
as an opportunity to introduce the characters to people who may have
been too young . . . It has a reason for being, even if there'd never
been a television show before."

Carter said their secrecy extended to the fluorescent-pink signs film
productions use to direct crew to locations. Their signs read "Done
One Productions."

The original series filmed for five years in Vancouver starting in
1993 and became a big hit for the Fox network, in turn boosting
Vancouver's filmmaking profile.

"It would please me to no end to think that we were helpful to
Vancouver, because this was the perfect city to film this particular
show in," Duchovny said. "When we came here, we barely knew what we
were doing, and as we got better, the crews grew with us."

The show moved production to Los Angeles after the fifth season and
continued there for four more years. A 1998 feature film also shot in
L.A.

But cast and crew kept their ties to Vancouver - Carter still has a
home in the city and Duchovny has filmed two movies here since The X-
Files headed south.

Co-writer Spotnitz said the new script was written specifically for
locations in Vancouver and Pemberton, where they filmed for three
weeks. As with the series, the B.C. locations stand in for places in
the U.S. The producers showed reporters a trailer for the new movie
with Anderson, Duchovny and shaggy co-star Billy Connolly searching a
snowy field with dogs and sticks for some unspecified monster.

The new story picks up with the main characters in real time, six
years after the events of the series. Duchovny, who left the series
the year before it wrapped, said he always wanted The X-Files to
become a feature franchise.

"This is a great, flawed, questing hero - there's always more stories
for that person to be involved in," said the actor, who now stars in
another TV series, the dysfunctional-sex comedy Californication.

He brought his children with actress wife Tea Leoni to stay in
Whistler during this latest working trip.

"I do consider Vancouver one of the three cities I've lived in in my
my life," Duchovny said. "It is a home away from home."

gschaefer@...

© The Province 2008

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Going to put in some spoiler space before I post the link, because the link
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