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 di ... [Continua a leggere]

Apparently some people out there, including at least one colleague (cough, Josh Horowitz, cough) think that the upcoming film "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" is not worth covering. I've heard several excuses: the TV show ended too many years ago; the stars are old; the movie has nothing new to offer today's audience; no one cares. Now this is a movie that, as an "X-Files" fan, I've been awaiting for some time - and I don't think I'm alone. Even for the non-fan, the casual movie-goer, there's plenty to get excited about. So, I will now give you five reasons why "The X-Files: I Want to Be ... [Continua a leggere]

Gillian Anderson is best known for playing Dana Scully in the long running sci-fi series The X-Files. Anderson has now returned to the role in Chris Carter's new movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe. What made you want to return to The X-Files franchise after being away for several years? I told Chris that I was always available and ready to return for another movie when he was ready, and I knew that David felt the same way. We talked about this back in 2002 or 2003 when Chris and Frank Spotnitz already had a story in mind, and we talked about the story and felt it would make for a good fil ... [Continua a leggere]

On 20th Century Fox's scoring stage, producer Frank Spotnitz and composer Mark Snow seem to share the energetic second wind of two artist who know they're in the home stretch. Months after we were invited out to the set of The X-Files: I Want to Believe(read Ryan Rotten's report here), the pair are overseeing the scoring of the same scene we witnessed with intense, booming notes that mark a decided departure from the television series to something much grander on-screen. Snow, who scored the series from its very first episode (including 1998's The X-Files: Fight the Future feature film) ... [Continua a leggere]

Love it or hate it, The X-Files was a cultural milestone that brought horror back in a big way. Like the rest of America, I went through the mid-Nineties completely addicted and eagerly anticipated the Friday night paranoia of agents Mulder and Scully. But following the departure of writers Glen Morgan & James Wong and the first big screen movie, the show took a creative nosedive and slowly burnt out through season after season of bad story arcs. Now, seven years later, The X-Files: I Want To Believe hopes to reignite the glory days for a whole new generation. But can Chris Carter a ... [Continua a leggere]

The Los Angeles Film Festival gave X-Files fans a long awaited sneak peak at this summer's sequel, X-Files: I Want to Believe. Entertainment Weekly hosted a screening of two clips from the film and a panel discussion with star David Duchovny, creator and director Chris Carter, and writer Frank Spotnitz. The clips were so revealing, viewers could gather the following: Scully and Mulder are in it, they're looking for something, and they disagree about how to go about it. The panelists were equally tight-lipped about plot details, but at least one clip showed Scully bringing up Mulder's sister, s ... [Continua a leggere]

The X-Files series closed shop back in 2002, but don’t expect the new movie I Want to Believe, to pick up where the show left off. “We don’t act like the six years didn’t happen,” confirms David Duchovny, who adds playfully, “which is great for me physically.” It turns out the actor, who portrays smoldering Special Agent Fox Mulder in the franchise, never wanted to give up the character he played for nine seasons and in the 1998 film by the same name. “I did have this hope that I would be able to play Mulder until I died in a way, until we died ... [Continua a leggere]

Hard at work finishing the visual and sound effects on “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” Frank Spotnitz, the co-writer and co-executive producer of the highly anticipated sequel, slipped away from the editing room for a few minutes to speak with CBR News about his upcoming Wildstorm comic book special illustrated by Brian Denham, due in stores July 23.Spotnitz told CBR News, “We’re working on a very compressed schedule to complete the film. But it’s very exciting.”Exciting, yes. But it’s also cramping his style a bit too.“It’s really fun bu ... [Continua a leggere]

In a summer that's seen the resurrection of the Hulk alongside the return of Hellboy, Indiana Jones and Batman, the most surprising and unexpected has to be the return of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully with "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" (opens July 25). Even the show's fans feared that Chris Carter's influential paranormal investigative series that had spawned just one feature film a decade ago was neatly interred in a DVD boxed set with all nine seasons. But six years after the series went off the air, the FBI's most intriguing duo is back with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprising the ... [Continua a leggere]

BRIEFINGReleased: August 1Budget: $35 million (estimated)Director: Chris CarterStarring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Xzibit, Callum Keith RennieStory: Details are under tighter security than the secret files in the Cigarette Smoking Man's Pentagon store room. But we do know that the movie takes place in the present day, with FBI agents-turned-fugitives-from-the-law Mulder and Scully pulled back into a dangerous mystery. Amanda Peet and rapper Xzibit play federal agents, and Billy Connolly appears as a mysterious and 'very dark' new character. Whatever goes do ... [Continua a leggere]

After waiting for an eternity for Mulder and Scully to reunite for another "X File", fans of the popular supernatural sci-fi series can now head to the theater for the second feature film in the franchise, X-Files: I Want to Believe, which opens this Friday, July 25. At the film's recent press junket, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson got together to revisit the series, delve deep into the new movie, and look ahead to a possible third movie in 2012 to coincide with the end of the world on the Mayan calendar.There’s a legion of fans who are anxious to return to Scully and Mulder’s ... [Continua a leggere]

In late April, Chris Carter was editing "The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” the film that reunites agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the hugely popular 1993-2002 science fiction/conspiracy series, and if Carter's prediction holds, he is still tinkering. In fact, the studio might have to eventually step in and bar him from perfecting his monster, if it ever wants to see if the truth is still out there.But this is standard operating procedure for Carter, a creative force known for living on the bleeding edge of deadlines. He said he always went down to the wire during the original run o ... [Continua a leggere]

The X –Files actor was getting cold feet about making the new movie until a fan posted a montage of him kissing co-star GILLIAN ANDERSON on the video sharing site. “I was very excited to do the movie, and then as the date approached I started to get scared,” he said. “But somebody pulled up one of these homages to the show on YouTube that has a romantic song, and then all these kisses between Gillian and me, and that was actually really helpful to me, to kind of feel the show again. It was very romantic and it was very sweet, and I was like, 'Oh, I could watch that and ... [Continua a leggere]

(Hollywood, CA) Award-winning composer and X-Files theme creator Mark Snow returns to the paranormal with the score for “The X-Files: I Want to Believe.” Based on the hit sci-fi TV series, the 20th Century Fox film is directed by X-Files creator Chris Carter and reunites original cast members Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Andersen). For his score, Mark Snow incorporates an 80-piece orchestral rendition of his iconic theme as well as an original haunting, yet dramatic underscore.Best known for creating memorable music for leading TV shows, Mark Snow continues to receiv ... [Continua a leggere]

David Duchovny may have found television success again on Showtime’s Californication, but he will always be Fox Mulder to sci-fi fans. For movie goers, he hasn’t played his trademark role in a decade, but anticipation continues to build for X-Files: I Want to Believe, which hits theaters on July 25th, 2008. As more and more information about the movie has leaked out and fans start checking off already-released flicks like Iron Man and Indy 4, you can expect the X-Files buzz to become deafening. Duchovny sat down for a press conference recently to talk about his decision to come bac ... [Continua a leggere]