The entire second season of The X-Files will be released on DVD on the 28th of November in the United States and Canada. The 7-disc box will include a brand new documentary on "The Truth About Season Two," interviews with Chris Carter about 12 different episodes, "Behind the Truth" spots from FX, deleted scenes, clips about special effects and behind-the-scenes footage. The rest of the world finally gets Season One on DVD. Here are the dates of release for the following countries:
United Kingdom 6 November 2000
France 7 November 2000
Australia 22 November 2000
Belgium 29 November 2000
Japan 19 January 2001
Italy 1 February 2001
Spain 1 February 2001
Germany 22 February 2001
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The Museum of Television and Radio's latest offering is a salute to mystery and terror on television, with "The Post-Modern Prometheus" selected to represent The X-Files in the exhibit. Other shows featured include The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the series that served as inspiration for Chris Carter, Kolchak: The Night Stalker. The 1974 episode of Kolchak selected was co-written by The Sopranos creator David Chase. "Monster in a Box: Horror on Television" runs through December 10 in both the New York and Los Angeles branches of the Museum
Entertainment Weekly has gone live with their new X-Files 2000 Gallery, featuring photos from the magazine and the show. They also reveal unseen photos from their recent cover story. EW.com's full X-Files section has "Duchovny's Dossier," with photos of David exclusive to their site.
Duchovny will appear in 11 episodes of the upcoming eighth season of his hit Fox show. In addition, he's set to star in director Ivan Reitman's upcoming SF comedy movie Evolution, which is about aliens trying to invade Earth. "In Evolution, I play a professor who is charged with saving the world from aggressive aliens," he said. "I think that it's a transition that will take me away from The X-Files towards other roles."
Duchovny added that he's not eager to return to television once The X-Files ends. "I think it will be difficult to do another series, since people will always remember my work in The X-Files," he said. "I think it's the best time to turn the page and do something else."
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The first two episodes names have been revieled!
Li, who will be paid upwards of $7.5 million for his role, will play a cop who must fight his evil twin from a parallel universe to save the world, Variety reported. The Revolution Studios project is slated to begin production in January 2001 with an eye to an August 2001 release.
The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, was originally slated to star in The One, but dropped out to star in The Scorpion King. Morgan and Wong are rewriting the movie for Li. Li will also reportedly star in both sequels to 1999's hit The Matrix, which are in pre-production.
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Anderson is no stranger to London; she spent part of her childhood there while her father studied at the London Film School, The Guardian reported.
Anderson was thoughtful about violence in American entertainment. "We have this despair that we're living this American life and in some way we release that through this aggression that comes through in our form of entertainment," Anderson said. "In some way, we're getting out all the rage and dissatisfaction and frustration. Is that healthy, because it's an outlet that is not affecting our home life? Or by seeing that in the movies, are we then able to go home and have an excuse to slap our loved one? It's so hard to know."
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Spotnitz added, "You'll get more information early in the new year, probably sometime after Christmas. Since Mulder is missing, I think it would be difficult for Scully to get real hard answers." The X-Files starts its eighth season on Nov. 5.
As previously reported, Mulder will appear in only about half of the series' 22 episodes. Scully (Gillian Anderson) will be paired with a new FBI Agent, John Doggett, played by Robert Patrick. "Most X-Files fans love Mulder, and they love Mulder with Scully," Spotnitz said. "It's quite natural that when you've loved a character and actor to feel resistance to a new guy coming in. No matter how wonderful the new actor and character is, it's a hard sell to the audience. Plus, Scully doesn't like him. I suspect he'll win her over. Robert Patrick is a hard actor not to like."
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This is from The Haven.
The Haven has a great translation of the David Duchovny French chat that was on October 2nd. He was promoting Return To Me in France and there are some new questions that haven't been asked before. Chat
The news dated 10/05/00 is from ScifiWeekly.com
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Haglund said Gunmen will start shooting 12 episodes in October back at the original X-Files studios in Vancouver. The pilot will air in early 2001. "Now some say it will start [in] January, and some say March, and some say it will only be seen on the side of the wall at my parent's house. It could be Thursday or it might be another night, but that is what high executives are paid to figure out."
The show will feature the three characters made famous on The X-Files. "It will be the three Lone Gunmen, hence the title of the show," Haglund said. "It will be more government conspiracy plots and less genetic-alien-hybrid, take-over-Earth, odd-fat-sucking-vampires plot lines. [X-Files creator] Chris Carter and all the gang will be writing [and] producing, and lots of the old crew from Millennium and X-Files will be there too."
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The show will also air in Pittsburgh; Portland, Ore.; Minneapolis; and Orlando, Fla. All told, the 135 television markets represent 80 percent of the country, the trade paper reported.
The news dated 10/02/00 is from ScifiWeely.com
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Described as Ghostbusters for the new millennium, Evolution tells the story about an alien meteor that crashes into New Mexico carrying organisms that evolve at an accelerated rate and threaten to take over the world. Duchovny would play a college science professor, and Moore would play a government scientist.
Don Jakoby, David Diamond and David Weissman wrote the script. The film is slated to begin production by the end of the year.
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Henriksen also speaks warmly of Millennium fans. "They didn't like fatuous things," he said. "They were deeply involved with the show."
Henriksen will soon appear in an SF movie, The Lost Voyage. The film is "kind of a sci-fi, Devil's Triangle kind of thing," Henriksen told TV Guide. "I play a salvage operator who finds a ship that vanished and has now reappeared. I try to salvage it, and things go very wrong."
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Nutter was an executive producer of The WB's teen alien series Roswell and directed the pilot and several episodes of that series. He also directed the pilot of Fox's upcoming series Dark Angel and the pilot of Fox's Millennium.
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Producers Molly Newman (The Larry Sanders Show) and Howard Gordon (The X-Files) will develop the series.
Lobdell, a former X-Men comic writer, has other ideas for series. They include Tooth and Claw, about a vampire law student and a werewolf who team up to become bounty hunters, and None of the Above, about four kids transported back from the future to prevent the impending apocalypse.
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The magazine also reported that Duchovny will appear in the first episode of the season, the final six and three in between. As for Patrick's debut, "I don't expect the fans will like him right off the bat, because Scully [Gillian Anderson] certainly doesn't," executive producer Frank Spotnitz told the magazine. "David is a terrific actor with a huge amount of charisma, so no matter who you put in there, some segment of the audience is going to be hostile."
Added Anderson, "David's and my chemistry has been a topic of conversation for a long period of time, and it's valid and tangible, and so is the chemistry between Robert and me, thank God. I hope that people can open their minds enough to allow a natural progression to take place."
X-Files creator Chris Carter, executive producer Frank Spotnitz, and Duchovny are supposedly writing the episode.
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