If you're a sci-fi fan, chances are you saw the first X-Files feature movie, since The X-Files: Fight the Future was released at the height of the TV show's success. But did anyone see the second? Could lackluster box office and mixed reviews for The X-Files: I Want to Believe be an obstacle to future movie adaptations?
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Its the hour that might drop the collective jaw of Supernatural fans who think they have the CW series mythology all figured out In the Beginning airing this Thursday at 9 pmET guest-stars Mitch Pileggi as Samuel Campbell the Winchester boys maternal grandfather The Back to the Future-esque tale finds Dean face-to-face with not only Gramps but also his would-be parents as light is shed on the dark truth about That Night TVGuidecom invited Pileggi to preview his visit reflect on his least-appreciated TV role and ponder the prospects for X-Files 3 Matt MitovichTVGuidecom How did the Supernatural opportunity come to you Was it a case of someone knowing someone who knows youMitch Pileggi I had worked with [Supernatural creator] Eric Kripke on another series Tarzan some years ago He told me he had been looking for something for me to do on the show but he wanted to wait for the right role This came up they called me and there was no hesitationTVGui
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The X-Files creator Chris Carter was hospitalized on Tuesday for exhaustionCarter who has been working non-stop on multiple movie projects for two years is being treated for exhaustion and an acute sleeping disorder says EW Carter who wrote produced and directed this summers The X-Files I Want to Believe jumped immediately into directing the hush-hush feature Fencewalker That coupled with an exhausting world press tour for The X-Files could lead to one sleep-deprived multi-hyphenate Carter is expected to make a speedy recovery Erin FoxRelated149 Director Chris Carter Rewards Staffers First Novel with Film Cameo Red-carpet Video with Your X-Files Faves149 David Duchovny Discusses the X-Files Magic149 Gillian Anderson Calls X-Files Reunion a Real Blessing149 Chris Carter Talks of the Mulder-Scully Love149 Frank Spotnitz Says X-Files Was Always a Love Story149 Is Mitch Pileggis Skinner in the New X-Files
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David Duchovny has voluntarily entered a treatment facility to deal with sex addiction. The star of Californication (which now, sadly, carries a whole different connotation) told People that he requests "respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation."This situation comes on the heels of a less-than-extraordinary performance for Duchovny's summer movie, The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Californication, for which Duchovny won a Golden Globe, is set to premiere its second season on Sept. 28. Ironically, a brand-new promotional campaign hitting (among other places) the New York City subway system proclaims his sexually promiscuous alter ego to be "In Way Too Deep." (See photo here.) A Showtime rep tells TVGuide.com, "We're not altering our second season promo plans — and that includes the subway ads."Duchovny is married to actress Tea Leoni, with whom he has two children, 9-year-old West and 6-year-old Kyd.In the following video (at the 0:45 mark), Du...
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Question: Considering how little you liked The X-Files: I Want to Believe (per your column), you may be loathe to consider it any further, but I did not see any comment from you on what I took to be some of the most malicious, virulent and surprising homophobia I've seen in a movie in a while. (Spoiler alert) The villains were two men "married in Massachusetts," as the agent played by Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner contemptuously sneered; they had been molested as children, playing into the false stereotype that people are gay because of abuse or trauma in their backgrounds; and the bodies they were stealing to attach to the one of them with cancer are female (on screen, at least), playing into another offensive stereotype that gay men really want to be women. The movie even seems to be saying, finally, that a pedophile priest is more worthy of redemption than the gay villains. As a former X-Phile, I was terribly disappointed by this mean-spirited, gratuitous and completely unnecessary slam ...
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