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]

Frank Spotnitz, ovvero una delle menti che stavano dietro la creazione di gran parte della mitologia di X-Files, ha detto a Sci Fi Wire che ha firmato un contratto per partecipare alla stesura della sceneggiatura del secondo film basato sulla serie.X-Files, lo ricordiamo, è stato chiuso dopo la fine della nona stagione, e in un certo senso è stato quasi cancellato dall'esistenza. Secondo alcuni l'11 settembre ha reso per un certo periodo molto poco attraente per gli americani una serie che parlava di cospirazioni governative, e anche dopo qualche tempo, comunque, l'argomento ha f ... [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]

“La verità non è più là fuori, ma rinchiusa in una realtà virtuale”: parola di William Gibson, Tom Maddox e Chris Carter, o quasi. Lo confessiamo la divagazione sullo slogan pubblicitario del telefilm cult degli anni Novanta è nostra, ma è quasi d’obbligo quando a scrivere due memorabili episodi di The X-Files sono stati due eccezionali scrittori cyberpunk come Gibson e Maddox.Il connubio ha trovato forma negli episodi Intelligenza artificiale (Kill switch), della quinta stagione della serie, e High-tech (First Person Shooter), ... [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]

Chris Carter, il creatore della serie televisiva The X-Files, ha citato in tribunale la 20th Century Fox per rottura del contratto, interferenza contrattuale e altre richieste di pagamento concernenti i diritti sulla serie. Carter accusa lo studio di essersi rimangiato l'accordo in precedenza stipulato fra le parti, poiché ritenuto troppo favorevole allo stesso Carter, così come risulta dall'atto depositato a dicembre presso la Corte Superiore di Los Angeles. L'autore e sceneggiatore televisivo è quindi ora deciso a chiedere i danni per conto della Ten Thirteen, la propria ... [Continua a leggere]