Strike Back
They're blowing things up at Cinemax — literally. The channel, a testosterone-dripping younger brother to HBO, is adding the explosive new action series Strike Back in a bid to expand its oft-maligned original programming.
"Cinemax needed to evolve and feel like a premium to subscribers," says HBO miniseries president Kary Antholis, who also oversees shows for Cinemax. "We're trying to grow the brand to a place where it's serving another purpose for people."
But fans of "Skin-emax" will be relieved to hear that Strike Back features all kinds of action — both in the bedroom and on the battlefield. "We looked at...
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Gabrielle Union and Frank Spotnitz
Gabrielle Union and X-Files writer/producer Frank Spotnitz are reteaming to develop a new series for NBC.
The duo, which worked together on ABC's short-lived Night Stalker during the 2005-2006 TV season, is developing a procedural for the Peacock, according to Variety. Spontitz will write the show and Union, best known for her role in Bring It On, will star as a detective who must ...
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David Duchovny, Frank Spotnitz, Gillian Anderson and Chris Carter by Todd Williamson/ WireImage.com
Oh, I believe in the X-Files. Hundreds of fans filled bleachers and lined Hollywood Blvd. to catch a glimpse of the creators and stars of The X-Files: I Want to Believe at its premiere Wednesday night. Being a huge nerd fan myself, I felt like I had stepped into some alternate dimension X-Files case — it was truly surreal. I walked the red carpet and the fans went crazy as we caught b-roll of people wearing Mulder and Scully t-shirts or waving homemade signs and our own TV Guide cover with Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. My fellow "X-Philes" were thrilled to see a true fan working the carpet, and rewarded me with thunderous applause. I felt like a star myself. After our crews got in place, fans were treated to a special press conference with Gillian, David, Frank Spotnitz, and Chris Carter, moderated by Entertainment Weekly's Whitney Pastorek (lucky girl!). Fans got to ask questions for 15 minutes, and early birds who had been given a black bracelet in the bleachers were p...
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In this interview from the red-carpet premiere of X-Files I Want to Believe writerexec producer Frank Spotnitz discusses how the long-running saga has always been a love story Spotnitz also teases one or two big cameos and explains how hard it was to address Baby William in the new movieRed-carpet Video with Your X-Files Favesbull David Duchovny Discusses the X-Files Magicbull Gillian Anderson Calls X-Files Reunion a Real Blessingbull Chris Carter Talks of the Mulder-Scully Lovebull Frank Spotnitz Says X-Files Was Always a Love Storybull Is Mitch Pileggis Skinner in the New X-Files
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Frank Spotnitz, The X-Files: I Want to Believe
It was January 2007, and I was about to give up hope.
It was six years since 20th Century Fox called, asking if we were interested in doing another X-Files feature film. Five years since the television series went off the air. And four years since creator Chris Carter and I labored over the story for the new movie and pitched it to the studio.
That was back in 2003. Since then, I had negotiated a deal to cowrite and coproduce the movie, and waited for David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson to close their deals — only to have the whole process derailed when Chris and the studio got into a legal dispute over profits from the TV series. Fans and reporters kept asking me when the movie would finally be made. And I kept saying I was sure it would happen, just as soon as Chris and the studio resolved their differences. But by last January, it was starting to feel like that day would never come. And then...
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X-Files: I Want to Believe poster art courtesy 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox released a statement today saying that loyal X-Files fans or X-Philes and yes I am one of them will be given a special treat at the premiere of The X-Files I Want to Believe at the Graumans Chinese Theater in Hollywood on July 23 500 lucky fans will be given special credentials on a first-come first-serve basis to observe the red carpet arrivals followed by the chance to participate in a press conference with the films stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny and filmmakers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz I think I just heard Pricelines Web site crashing as hundreds of screaming devoted Philes try to book plane ticketsOn a stage at the front of the theater the panelists will field questions from fans which will also be broadcast live via a special Internet site from which they can direct questions in real-time Fans can squeal even further knowing that they will have a chance to meet over 100 of the series co-stars guest-stars and behind-the
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Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz by Kevin Parry/WireImage.com
During Friday nights The-X Files I Want to Believe panel at NYC Comic Con with the films executive producer and cowriter Frank Spotnitz and director-executive producer Chris Carter Spotnitz let a big cat out of the bag He said that DC and Wildstorm Comics would be announcing a brand new X-Files comic book series tomorrow during one of the many panels The moderator said jokingly I think you just announced it to which Carter added Dont tell anyone Cut to a million X-Files fans texting and emailing the scoop simultaneously The X-Filesmania that was so rampant in the 90s seems to have had a bit of a rebirth since the second film was announced several months ago Since then new sites like XFilesNewscom have sprouted up to report on the movies photos set visits interviews and lots of gossip about the highly secretive plot Older sites like Haven a message board for Mulder and Scully fans have seen fans return in droves to discuss new movie theories and deta
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The X-Files Movie by Diyah Pera/20th Century Fox
As reported earlier this month by TVGuide.com, The X Files will be featured at the Paley Television Festival on March 26. The night will offer a retrospective of the nine-season series and will also show the highly anticipated movie trailer. While the new X Files flick isn't being released until July 25, there's a ton of buzz about the return of two of TV's most beloved characters, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson), to the silver screen. Though the plot is under tight wraps, we do know that the still-untitled second movie looks like a scary supernatural (non-alien) thriller. Joining Duchovny and Anderson will be Amanda Peet and rapper-turned-actor Xzibit as FBI agents who are also investigating the case.So are you a former or current X-Phile? Do you have all nine seasons on DVD or do you catch the reruns on Sci Fi or TNT whenever you can? Do you have burning questions about the show itself or about the upcoming movie? If so, you may be in luck, because TVGuide.co...
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Mulder and Scully could be reunited back on the big screen sooner than we imagined. David Duchovny dropped a bombshell at the end of a Saturday afternoon TCA session promoting his raunchy new Showtime series Californication (which premieres August 13 alongside the third-season launch of Weeds). Our favorite "spooky" FBI agent says he's expecting to get a script next week for a movie sequel to 1998's The X-Files blockbuster. Chris Carter, who'll also direct, wrote the script with Frank Spotnitz, and Duchovny says Gillian Anderson is also on board for production to start, possibly in the fall. No details beyond that at this point, but it's exciting news for those of us who've long been convinced there's more truth out there to be discovered.
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Per Variety, ABC has tapped Brett Ratner to direct and produce a pilot based on the Women's Murder Club featured in several James Patterson thrillers, while The X-Files' Frank Spotnitz is developing for the network Murder Incorporated, a drama about a man from a wealthy family whose fortune has a dubious source.... The CW is eyeing Grey's Anatomy exec producer Mark Gordon to bring life to Reaper, a chiller in which a "bounty hunter" for Satan tracks escaped souls.... Lifetime is pondering a pilot order for Conspiracy, a legal thriller about a D.C. lawyer whose life is put in danger when she realizes she won a high-profile case for a pharmaceutical company based on evidence falsified by a Massive Evil Conspiracy. Um, isn't it a bit soon (if ill-advised) to rip off Runaway?
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