X-Files actress Gillian Anderson has come a long way since hunting down aliens and the paranormal in her role as Scully. Her perfomance in Bleak House was without fault and now the flamed-haired actress has turned her attentions to political thriller The Last King Of Scotland. She plays a small but perfectly formed role as Sarah Merrit who has a romoantic involvement with on-screen character Garrigan played by James MvAvoy. The Last King Of Scotland sees handsome young doctor, Garrigan (James McAvoy) arriving in 1970’s Uganda - hoping for fun, sun and to lend a helping hand but he finds ... [Continua a leggere]

Se n'è andato un pezzo di storia del cinema. A molti il suo nome, Peter Boyle, non dirà molto. Ma universalmente noto è il personaggio che ha reso celebre questo attore: il mostro in "Frankenstein Junior". L'istrionico interprete, famoso anche per il ruolo graffiante nel telefilm "Tutti amano Raymond", è morto all'ospedale Presbiteriano di New York. Amico storico di John Lennon, aveva 71 anni ed era malato da tempo.Figlio di un famoso comico, Boyle prima di intraprendere la carriera di attore si fece frate. Durante la carriera ha lavorato in un centinaio di film, tr ... [Continua a leggere]

When the long-running alien conspiracy drama The X Files ended in 2002 after nine years, its flame-haired star Gillian Anderson was at a professional crossroads. Her success on American TV, as the cool, adroit FBI special agent Dana Scully, made her a household name. Greater things should have followed. In the eyes of casting directors, however, she was a square peg in a city of round holes. "It is a particular dilemma," Anderson says. "With someone like Jennifer Aniston, who was on television for a long time playing a specific character, what she has to offer in Friends is easily translatable ... [Continua a leggere]

When we last heard an update on X-Files 2, Rob Bowman — who directed Fight the Future and hopes to helm the sequel — said the project was waiting on a script from Chris Carter, creator of the X-Files and Millennium television series. Bowman also suggested that the new film would be a stand-alone story, rather than continuing the conspiracy theme of the show's later seasons and X-Files: Fight the Future.We're still waiting on that script, but it sounds like someone's going to get going on it soon. According to Sci Fi Wire, Frank Spotnitz has taken on the job of producing a screenpla ... [Continua a leggere]

Will she, won't she? I'm half-expecting Gillian Anderson not to show. Two days before we meet for lunch her lawyers released a statement confirming that, after 16 months, her second marriage is over. In her shoes, I'd probably decide that lunch in a Notting Hill restaurant with wrapround plate-glass windows - let alone with a journalist - wouldn't be that high on my list of priorities.Five minutes tick by; 10, 20. Then the door is opening and a tiny person in big sunglasses is hurrying up to the table and saying hullo. 'Is it OK if we sit over here?' she asks and, without waiting for an answer ... [Continua a leggere]

In the lucrative world of TV DVD, there's never too much of a good thing.And now that some of the biggest-selling series, such as Sex and the City and Friends, have released all of their seasons on DVD individually or in box sets, home video marketers are hardly wringing their hands in despair.Instead, they're keeping all these series in the spotlight by repackaging and repurposing episodes in themed single-disc compilations.Three new Friends DVDs are out (Warner, $15 each) that allow fans to relive favorite themes on the smash series: The One with All the Birthdays, The One with All the Weddi ... [Continua a leggere]

If you've been wondering what happened to Gillian Anderson, the actress who played Agent Scully in "The X-Files," she hasn't been abducted by aliens.The 37-year-old actress, who lived in England as a child, moved to London three years ago, where she's been pursuing a career on the West End stage and in low-budget, independent films. Smaller and prettier in person, Anderson is more outgoing and down-to-earth than Scully, but just as thoughtful. She was in New York to publicize "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story," a new film in which she has a very small, but very funny, part. She can also ... [Continua a leggere]

Gillian Anderson was not eager to return to the small screen.After her hit Fox series “The X-Files” ended its run in 2002, the actress, a graduate of DePaul’s Theatre School, turned down all television offers, preferring to concentrate on film and stage work. Even though she now lives in London, Anderson nearly declined the role of the mysterious Lady Dedlock in the acclaimed BBC-Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic Victorian novel “Bleak House,” which debuts at 7 p.m. Sunday on WTTW-Ch. 11. But the actress took the part, she says, afte ... [Continua a leggere]

Gillian Anderson's fan mail recently took on a pleading tone. Dear Gillian, implored the letters and cards from all over the world, when can we see you again on screen or on stage? Where have you been?The BBC, which wanted the 37-year-old actress badly for a plum role in a blockbuster serial, wasn't even sure where she was. There were 85 parts to cast, pronto, and if Anderson was on another continent, ensconced within an overprotective cordon of publicists and minders, it might take too long to reach her. "We didn't believe for one second we'd be able to get through to her," says Nigel Staffor ... [Continua a leggere]

"If you could see where I'm standing now," teases Chris Carter.Carter, creator of "The X-Files," is calling from a remote spot in the southern end of Costa Rica, where he has taken cover from the rain under some thatched bamboo. It's not as mysterious as it sounds--everybody needs a vacation every once and a while--but with the series off the air and each season already released on DVD, what's left to talk about? In this case, "The X-Files Mythology, Vol. 1--Abduction" (Fox, 1993-1995, 681 minutes, NR, $39.98), a new four-disc set that smartly recontexualizes the show.As any "X-Files" fanatic ... [Continua a leggere]

It's hard to believe it's been seven years since The X-Files: Fight the Future was released in theaters, and that the intervening years have been devoid of sequels.Within the last year or so, pieces have slowly fallen into place for a second X-Files motion picture. A month or so ago, David Duchovny (agent Fox Mulder) told Fox News that "all systems were go" for beginning production this winter.More details emerged this month in the latest edition of Dreamwatch magazine. As Dark Horizons reports, director Rob Bowman was asked about the new X-Files movie and his connection to it."[The X-File ... [Continua a leggere]

After the short-lived career as a graffiti artist but before the long-lived career in which he pretended to be an FBI agent chasing UFOs, David Duchovny worked as a bartender. This had some unintended consequences, like the time he ran down the street shirtless, pursued by a man with a knife.As we cross Fifth Avenue, Duchovny points out the spot, at the corner of 13th Street. It was a hot summer day, circa 1979, and when Duchovny came in to work to prepare his station, he took off his shirt before slicing the limes. “The chef was a real martinet. He said it was against the law to be hand ... [Continua a leggere]

David Duchovny likes the rain. And he likes Vancouver even more.So, not surprisingly, the actor who starred in the shot-in-Vancouver The X-Files, is excited to be returning to the city next year to shoot another feature-film version of the sci-fi TV series."Supposedly, we're going to do an X-Files movie up there in Vancouver next year, 'cause that's really the only place to shoot it," Duchovny says in a phone call from Montreal, where he's acting in the thriller The Secret.Despite his warm feelings toward Vancouver, Duchovny, whose House of D (he directed, wrote, co-starred) just opened in the ... [Continua a leggere]

The D stands for Dear Old Friends. David Duchovny got a call from one of those last weekend."I pick up my cell phone and it's a very familiar voice I haven't heard in over a year," says the actor, who makes his directorial debut in the film "House of D," which opens Friday. Yes, the former Agent Fox Mulder of "The X Files" was again listening to the mellow tones of Agent Dana Scully.She was not on the line to report an alien attack in the City of Angels."Gillian Anderson was in Los Angeles and she caught my movie," Duchovny says. "She wanted to call to say she really loved it and that meant so ... [Continua a leggere]

After the success of the 1998 feature X-Files: Fight the Future, many expected that creator Chris Carter and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson would bank on that success for an immediate follow-up. Nearly seven years have passed with little development and, for all intents and purposes, the chance for X-Files fans to see the stories continue appeared slim at best. In the past couple of years, talk has again come up of another feature film, with Duchovny himself even mentioning earlier this year that it might be happening. Today, during IGN FilmForce's interview with David Duchovny, he ... [Continua a leggere]