1. Director of Photography Bill Roe was nominated for the American Society of Cinematography Achievement Award for "Agua Mala" (6X14). Robert McLachlan was also nominated for MILLENNIUM's episode of "Matroyshka."
2. THE X-FILES has won its fourth Environmental Media Award for last season's "Arcadia" (6X13)
3. William B. Davis (aka Cigarette-Smoking Man) will write the still untitled episode #15, to be directed by Rob Bowman. It will tentatively air 3/19.
4. Gillian Anderson is writing and directing her first X-FILES in what will be episode #17. Stay tuned to the Official Site for an exclusive video interview with Gillian.
5. David Duchovny is writing and directing episode #18, entitled "Hollywood A.D.," which will tentatively air on 4/16.
6. There's been a recount: Fox has decided that #12 on 2/20 will be the 150th episode of THE X-FILES.
I got the news dated 01/26/00 from Scifi Weekly
01/26/00
David Duchovny, soon to appear in the feature film Return to Me, could be persuaded to return to The X-Files for an eighth season if the money's right. That's the conclusion of Entertainment Weekly, which speculated that the actor who plays FBI Agent Fox Mulder might come back after the expiration of his current contract at the end of the current season.
But it would mean doubling Duchovny's current per-episode salary of about $200,000, the magazine said. In addition, it would require settlement of Duchovny's lawsuit against Fox and others arguing that the actor is being cheated of syndication royalties.
But nothing's impossible. Fox executives have said that they will do as much as they can to bring the popular series back. And creator Chris Carter has said he won't come back unless Duchovny signs on.
Meanwhile, Mitch Pileggi, who plays Mulder's boss, Assistant FBI Director Walter Skinner, told the Winnipeg Sun that he doesn't know whether the show will come back for another season. "I think there's a possibility," he said. "You hear all kinds of different rumors, you know. Until Chris comes out or until Fox comes out and says we're going to do this or we're going to do that, I'm probably one of the last people to know... Anything can happen in this business; it's so unpredictable, I really don't know which direction it's going to go in."
01/26/00
Episodes of genre television series Millennium, Profiler and The X-Files were among the finalists for outstanding achievement in cinematography as nominated by the American Society of Cinematographers. Final awards will be presented Feb. 20 at the ASC's annual ceremony in Los Angeles.
01/23/00
American Beauty won Best Picture at the Golden Globes. I've found a connection between this movie and The X-Files.
Phil Hawn who played "FBI Special Agent" in the 6th season episode Tithonus also played "Subway Rider" in American Beauty.
The news dated 01/21/00 is from ScifiWeekly.com
01/21/00
The Dark Horizons Web site has resurrected the rumor that Gillian Anderson of The X-Files may have a part in Star Wars: Episode II, which creator George Lucas is still writing. Anderson, who plays FBI Agent Dana Scully on the Fox TV series, is supposedly a key figure in the second film.
An unnamed source tells the site, "According to rumor, Gillian would be playing a Jedi Council member who is newly appointed to the council and was trained by Qui-Gon (and may have been more to him). As I asked her this, she just smiled and didn't say a word! She did say she thought she would be filming a movie outside the United States around the time Episode II will be shot."
01/21/00
Gillian Anderson is not in the running to step into Jodie Foster's role as FBI Agent Clarice Starling in Hannibal, the controversial sequel to Foster's The Silence of the Lambs, Anderson's spokeswoman told SCI FI Wire. "There's nothing to say, there's nothing official, and there are just lots of rumors," Anderson's manager, Connie Freiberg, said through Kim Fitzgerald, a spokesman for Anderson's day job, The X-Files.
That doesn't foreclose a future deal. But it appears to quash widespread rumors that Anderson is one of the front-runners for the coveted role, along with Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth).
Fans of Anderson, who plays FBI Agent Dana Scully on the long-running X-Files, have eagerly touted her for Hannibal. Indeed, the character of Scully was reportedly modeled on Foster's Oscar-winning performance in 1991's Lambs.
Foster bowed out of the sequel reportedly due to a scheduling conflict with her next directorial job, Flora Plum.
01/21/00
The FX cable network confirmed widespread rumors that it will resurrect Chris Carter's virtual reality series, Harsh Realm, which was canceled last fall by FX's sister network, Fox Broadcasting, after only three episodes. Harsh Realm will return to television in March.
FX said it would air all nine episodes that were filmed before the series was canceled, including six that never hit the airwaves. The series has halted production.
Harsh Realm stars Scott Bairstow and D. B. Sweeney as soldiers who enter a virtual reality program to battle a megalomaniac played by Terry O'Quinn.
I know. I don't get FX either
01/13/00 This is from Scifi Wire
The X-Files creator Chris Carter is developing a spinoff show that will center on the recurring characters of The Lone Gunmen. Twentieth Century Fox Television, which produces The X-Files for the studio's Fox Broadcasting network, is working with Carter on the new series, Sandy Grushow, chairman of Fox Television Entertainment Group, said at the winter Television Critics Association press tour, according to the Hollywood trade papers.
Carter will develop the new show with X-Files producers Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban. The Lone Gunmen are conspiracy geeks who help FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, and are portrayed by Dean Haglund, Tom Braidwood and Bruce Harwood.
As for The X-Files itself, Fox executives said it was a "50-50" chance the popular show would return for an eighth season next fall. David Duchovny (Mulder) has sued the studio over his profit participation in the show and has said he won't return once his contract expires at the end of season seven. Co-star Gillian Anderson (Scully) is contractually bound for an eighth season, but has also said she won't come back.
The news with the date 01/12/00 is from ScifiWeekly.com
01/12/00
Following in the footsteps of her co-star, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully) may get a shot at the director's chair for an episode of the hit Fox series The X-Files. The About.com X-Files fan Web site reported that the show's production company, Ten Thirteen, will let Anderson direct one of the shows later this season.
Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder) made his directorial debut with last season's critically acclaimed baseball episode, "The Unnatural." Duchovny has also provided story ideas for episodes.
01/12/00
TV producer Chris Carter (The X-Files) will receive the Television Showmanship Award from the Publicists Guild of America in March. The group cited Carter's "exceptional impact" on TV.
01/11/00 From The Columbus Dispatch
by Ian Spelling
Nestles behind a suspiciously charming house in Santa Monica, Calif., Mulder and Scully's silent partner is hard at work.
We're not talking about X, Deep Throat, Jeffrey Spender or even the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
Walk across the front lawn, through a side gate and past the pool, and you'll enter a hospitable little building, a k a "Snow Tunes." And from a dark room, lighted only by the light cast by a football game on television, emerges a bearded man in blue jeans, a black T-shirt and an X-Files.
His other credits include the now-defunct Millennium and Harsh Realm, as well as films and television movies such as Crazy in Alabama, Disturbing Behavior, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and, of course, The X-Files: Fight the Future.
"This is where it all happens," Snow said, settling into a chair and waving to indicate his beloved Synclavier, the synthesizer he uses to create all those eerie sounds.
"On average there's about 30 minutes of music per episode. Though, as time has gone on, we've done as much as 40 minutes for a 44-minute episode."
"If I have to really deliver and jam on something, 10 minutes a day is doable," he said. "That's kind of pushing it, though. Five days is comfortable to do 30 to 33 minutes. Three days is a little irritating, but it can be done."
The process begins when Snow receives a script, which he reads to get a feeling for what's to come. Upon receiving the unsweetened final cut of an episode, he determines how best to color it musically.
Then, after a music editor provides him with the show's "spotliting" - where the music should stop and start, and its length - Snow creates the music, generally a blend of moody strings and synthesizer, as well as vocal sounds and sound effects.
"I like to start with a real meaty cue that's possible in Act 4 or toward the end, and they can run for five to 10 minutes," he said. "That's pretty amazing. These X-Files music cues, for whatever reason, have developed into long pieces."
He laughs
"A friend of mine is a music editor on Roswell," he said, "and the composer said, 'Well, I think we need a Mark Snow here.' He said, 'What do you mean by that?' And the composer said, 'Oh, you know, a 10-minute cue.'"
"It had nothing to do with musical style, but with length."
Series creator Chris Carter, as with most of the show's directors, tends to give Snow free rein. Such license allows Snow to feel uninhibited and likely has played a key role in his earning four Emmy Award nominations for hi X-Files efforts alone.
To date, the composer points to Post-Modern Prometheus (Hey, thats my fav episode too!) and The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas as his favorite X-Files scores. He also enjoyed stepping out from behind his home console to lead an 85-piece orchestra through the score of the X-Files feature during several sessions at a recording studio.
With The X-Files in its seventh and apparently final season, Snow hopes to be able to concentrate on film scores. Still, he's grateful for everything that The X-Files has given him, and for that matter, for television and film composers in general.
I think that most of the time people take music for granted," Snow said. "I've had an unusual experience with The X-Files
"The Internet was comming into its won with the show started. I've gotten alot of fan mail over the Internet, and I've also visited the chat rooms, and all of that has let me know what I'm doing is really appreaciated.
"There are also film-score magazines and film-score critics," he said. "Some of the magazines are pretentious, and some of them are terrific, and some guy will love something I do, while some other guy will knock me."
Snow tugs on his X-Files cap.
"It all just tells me that more people are paying more attention to music than ever before."
The news with the date 01/06/00 is from ScifiWeekly.com
01/06/99
Will FBI Agent Dana Scully sub for Agent Clarice Starling? Gillian Anderson, who plays the no-nonsense Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, is rumored to be in the running for the coveted role of Starling in Hannibal, Universal Studios' upcoming sequel to the 1991 hit The Silence of the Lambs.
But that's only if Jodie Foster, who created the role in Silence, passes on the sequel, according to the Dark Horizons Web site. Foster is withholding a decision on joining the cast of Hannibal until she sees a final script by Steve Zaillian.
Anthony Hopkins has already agreed to reprise the role of serial cannibal Hannibal Lecter.
01/06/00
Fans of television shows owned by Twentieth Century Fox are organizing a one-day "blackout" to protest what they see as the heavy hand of Fox lawyers seeking to shut down fan Web sites. In a "Strike Back Against Fox" protest, fans are tentatively planning to shut down their Web sites on May 13, 2000, "to peacefully show Fox what the Internet would be like without fan sites," according to protest organizers.
Taking part in the protest so far are 73 sites by fans of such Fox-owned shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel--both of which are produced by Fox but air on The WB--and The X-Files.
In recent months, Fox lawyers have sent letters to Web site owners threatening litigation unless the owners remove copyrighted images, text and other show-related content.
01/06/00
Chris Carter's aborted show Harsh Realm may return for a brief run on cable network FX in March 2000, according to the Cinescape Web site. FX will reportedly air the eight episodes of Harsh Realm that were filmed, even though only the first three episodes ran on Fox before the series was canceled.
Twentieth Century Fox studios, which produced and owns Harsh Realm, will also offer a screen credit to James D. Hudnall and Andrew Paquette, creators of the Harsh Realm comic book series on which the television series is loosely based. The two had protested the lack of a credit when the series first premiered.
A spokesman for FX told SCI FI Wire that the cable network had no official word on Harsh Realm.
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