Chris Carter, The X-Files executive producer, leans back in his chair as he discusses his hit series and the new feature film that has resulted from its success. “I had a three day surfing weekend and I was thinking about what it is as a surfer that I bring to my occupation.” Carter, a long-time surfer who spent over a decade earlier in his career as an editor and writer at Surfing magazine, certainly looks the part, given his relaxed, laid-back manner and his casual dress consisting of jeans and a T-shirt. “I think, for me, it’s a minimalist sort of self ... [Continua a leggere]

Il cognome, di origine russa, significa “spirituale”. E David Duchovny, sex-symbol a cui sono stati dedicati siti internet di pura ispirazione carnale (Brigata del testosterone, Brigata dell’estrogeno, Pagina di libidine…), sostiene che il nome gli si addice. “Vorrei diventare puro spirito, fare yoga 24 ore al giorno. Lo yoga che pratico non mi basta mai”. In carne e ossa, comunque, al nostro incontro in un albergo di Londra, pare tutt’altro che etereo, dimostra sardonico umorismo newyorkese e realismo pragmatico. Non soffre paranoia. Non si lamenta: ... [Continua a leggere]

Finalmente sono tornati. Tosti. Intrepidi. Irriducibili. I cavalieri dell’investigazione impossibile, gli sfegatati cacciatori di complotti e alieni sono ancora tra noi. Stavolta, però, smesse le dimensioni dell’elettrodomestico casalingo, i due agenti dell’Fbi Mulder e Scully ci guardano perplessi dall’alto degli schermi giganti dei cinema di prima visione. Uscito negli Stati Uniti lo scorso giugno (quasi sessanta miliardi di lire incassati nel primo week end), il film tratto dalla serie-culto “X-Files”, scritto e prodotto dall’ideatore del tel ... [Continua a leggere]

“The X-Files” creator Chris Carter has inked an exclusive development and production deal with 20th Century Fox TV, which includes a first-look feature component and calls for him to develop at least one new series for Fox Broadcasting Co. next fall. The pact, which has been in the works for months, keeps Carter as executive producer of “The X-Files” for at least two more seasons and “Millennium” for at least one more, while he develops new projects for Fox under his Ten Thirteen Prods. Sources say the deal, which lasts five years with options ... [Continua a leggere]

“Arriva un momento della vita in cui si comincia a desiderare qualche cosa d’altro. Io ho interpretato l’agente Scully per sei anni. È un personaggio che ho amato molto, anche perché è stato il mio primo vero ruolo, ma adesso è venuto per me il tempo di fare altro”. Incredibile ma vero. Con queste parole Gillian Anderson si congeda da “X-files”, la serie cult che per il secondo anno consecutivo ha vinto il prestigioso Golden Globe (il premio attribuito a film e serie Tv in America dalla stampa estera). L’attrice infatti ha r ... [Continua a leggere]

The promo thing before the show began showed shots from the segment that I'll describe later, with this voiceover: "Plus, The X-Files' eerie connection to Titanic. We're first on the set as the show moves to LA and David and Gillian board the Queen Mary of [for? hard to hear] romance." [When they get to the segment, Bob Goen is in front of a still picture of DD, pre-haircut hair, black shirt with collar, grinning. I missed the very beginning of what he said.] BG: ...asking that The X-Files relocate to Hollywood. Well, now they are here. And our Lisa Canning wa ... [Continua a leggere]

Composer and seven-time Emmy nominee Mark Snow’s musical genesis was officially initiated in Brooklyn in his early teens, and with the dual blessing of pianist mother and drummer father, the career of one of film music’s great inspirational forces of the 90s was set in motion.  He began as a piano student, and in his early development also embraced the art drumming, although in the years that followed the oboe became his principal artistic voice, and Mark went on to explore its expressive boundaries through performances in Baroque and Renaissance music concerts.  It was a ... [Continua a leggere]

My day begins when I wake up at 5.30. I never use an alarm clock. I think surfers generally wake up early – it’s the time when you get your best surf – and I love it because the phones aren’t ringing and there’s that stillness and coolness. I’ve been talking to Frank Spotnitz, my colleague and co-writer, about trying to get into the office at 4am. If we could do that, he and I might by noon have done a pretty good day’s work creatively, so then all the producing, which is very unstructured, could be done afterwards. But of course, life a ... [Continua a leggere]

He looks a lot like Mulder. There is the same air of wearied naughtiness. But the familiar face, free from the softening broodiness of his X-Files persona, morphs from wounded pup to bond-broker bastard. In exquisitely tailored midnight blue, he is less the visionary canker and more the acquaintance of American Psycho’s socialite psychopath, Patrick Bateman. At 38, Duchovny is a big star on the small screen, a Hollywood bankable yet to prove his mettle in movies. Internationally identifiable as his wry, doubting alter ego Fox Mulder, the completion of the first X-Files f ... [Continua a leggere]

HOLLYWOOD — It is, in every respect, a typical Fox network party. The music is a little too loud, the drinks are probably flowing a little too freely, and inside the Garden of Eden club off Hollywood Boulevard, Brian Austin Green of “Beverly Hills, 90210″ is under siege from TV critics and industry types, while nearby a knot of reporters tightens around his diminutive boss, Aaron Spelling. Even the Internet’s rumpled “citizen reporter,” Matt Drudge, is there, courtesy of a pundit gig he’s landed with Fox News. It is not exactly the kind o ... [Continua a leggere]

LOS ANGELES (CNN) — Chris Carter is riding an amazing wave. The creator of “The X-Files” has watched as his Fox television show has transcended its rocky start and turned into the “Star Trek” of the 1990s, developing a cultish following highlighted by the release of his “The X-Files” movie this summer. All the while, Carter has been hailed as a creative visionary, and a pretty good surfer, as well. Showbiz Today Correspondent Paul Vercammen caught up with Carter in Los Angeles recently, where the two spoke about wave-riding, writing, and ... [Continua a leggere]

In The X-Files movie, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully get attacked by bees, bad guys and some serious bio-hazards, but their voices rarely rise above the pitch of faraway freeway traffic. They must get it from their boss, creator and principal writer of The X-Files, Chris Carter. On the phone, Carter sounds as implacable as his stoic main characters. That’s quite a feat, as The X-Files movie was a gamble in many respects, and as dicey a deal as the television show ever was. (It’s made a respectable $55 million to date.) The film takes off from the fifth season’s fina ... [Continua a leggere]

There's a scene in the big-screen version of the television show The X-Files when Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), the good-looking FBI agent with a permanent case of the heebie-jeebies, steps into a back alley, unzips and pisses on a peeling, crusted poster for Independence Day. Independence Day earned a lot of money for Fox, the same studio that produced The X-Files, but its creative team of producer Dean Devlin and director Roland Emmerich made their next movie with Sony (a little something called Godzilla), which helps to explain Mulder's target. He - and the movie's makers - needn't h ... [Continua a leggere]

It almost sounds like a cruel joke. Take one of the most successful television series currently on air, that the faithful have tuned in, turned on and deconstructed every bit of its five-year way, and now successfully move it to the big screen — movies, theater takes, box office draws, film festivals, Oscars… No pressure. Your past resume? Directed a bunch of Star Trek:TNG and the 1993 movie Airborne, its greatest claim to fame being that it starred Buffy’s Seth Green. Oh yeah, and 25 episodes of the aforementioned TV series, The X-Files. Rob Bowman is the rec ... [Continua a leggere]

TVGEN: Welcome to the TVGEN/Yahoo! Chat Auditorium. Our guest tonight is a veteran of television and movies, as well as an Academy Award-winning actor, Martin Landau. He plays a key role in X-Files: Fight the Future. Known to movie audiences for his award-winning performance as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, Landau is also well known for his starring roles in both the Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999 TV series. Martin Landau: Hi, everybody! Happy to be with you this afternoon and this evening, and ask any questions you want. I may ... [Continua a leggere]