X-Files
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May 2001

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Dave Down Under

David Duchovny has left The X-Files far, far behind him and embarked on a movie career. Following the success of his romantic comedy Return to Me, Duchovny has turned his hand to the sci-fi spoof Evolution, which opens on July 12.

The film, which is described as a cross between Ghostbusters and Men in Black, is directed by Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) and co-stars Julianne Moore (Hannibal).

Duchovny will head to Australia for the local premiere, to be held in Sydney on June 14.

Hit is offering one lucky reader and a friend the chance to attend the premiere, and the exclusive Evolution after party.

Simply send Hit a question you'd like to ask Duchovny. Hit will choose 10 questions, and the author of the best question will win the main prize.

Duchovny's answers will be published in HIT.

There are also 100 tickets to a Melbourne preview of the film. They will go to the first 100 questions received by Hit.

There is a limit of one question per person.

[Entry details as above]

The main winner will be notified by phone on June 1. Melbourne Premiere winners will be notified by mail.

• January 2000, Principled Skinner, NW
• January 2000, The X Factor, Big Hit
• January 2000, Getting Ready For The End, TV Week
• January 2000, I was too frightened to breathe a word, TV Soap
• November 1999, Stellar Bodies - Gillian Anderson, November 7, 1999
• May 1999, Stellar Bodies - David Duchovny, May 30, 1999

"Star exits X-Files"

X-Files star David Duchovny has finally quit the long-running sci-fi series.

It was confirmed yesterday that the show will return for a ninth series after heated last-minute negotiations between the Fox network and show creator Chris Carter resulted in a sealed deal.

Duchovny, who plays Agent Fox Mulder and has appeared in only a handful of episodes in the current season, is still expected to make an occasional cameo appearance.

His co-star, Gillian Anderson, who plays Agent Dana Scully, signed a deal last July locking her into The X-Fiels for at least one more season.

Moore Action Collectibles to Produce X-Files Action Figures

Moore Action Collectibles Inc. is excited to announce its newest license recently acquired from Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox L&M), The X-Files. MAC will work in conjunction with Fox L&M and Ten-Thirteen Productions to produce the upcoming X-Files action figure series.

"We are so pleased to have the opportunity to be a part of such a long running, successful property, which The X-Files has proven to be," says MAC's CEO, Clayburn Moore. "We are very optimistic about the recent changes on the show, and we are looking forward to contributing to the success of both new and established characters through the product we release."

Wednesday
Gillian Anderson
7am: http://chat.yahoo.com

While Buffy drives stakes through vampires' hearts, Dana Scully is hunting down less tangible demons. Gillian Anderson sheds light on her long-running stint on the X Files as well as promoting an auction to raise money for neurofibromatosis. Find out how many years are left in the alien-busting game.

Gillian Anderson will forever be remembered as the woman who proved that it's still possible to look sexy with your arms up to your elbows in a dead person. Smart and studious, her Dana Scully lights up the screen whenever she smiles, something she really needs to do more.... along with, you know, taking off her clothes for a bit of a romp....

• March 2001, Gillian's Out There, Sun-Herald Television
• February 2001, Who's In The News / Return To Me, Civic Video Magazine
• July 2000: Fox Turns Puppydog, Brisbane Sunday Mail
• May 2000: The Unbelievable Truth, Sunday Telegraph TV Guide
• "Sein und Zeit": Away With The Aliens, Townsville Bulletin (May 2000)
• March 2000: Fatal Attraction, Sun-Herald Television
• "Millennium": Just One X, What's ON - Qld Times (March 2000)
• "Millennium": The Kiss ... at last, Bundaberg News-Mail TV Guide (March 2000)
• June 1999: Mystery Man or just a sly Fox?, Sunday Mail TV Scene
• November 1998: It's easy being pregnant, NW
• "The End": The Tension makes for a grand finale, Sunday Mail TV Scene (July 1998)

From the director of Ghostbusters comes a hilarious new comedy of meteoric proportions, Evolution. Due to invade cinemas locally on June 28th, the film follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms. As the alien invasion takes over, it’s up to the stars of the film; David Duchovny, Julianne Moore and Sean William Scott to stand between them and world domination….which could be bad news for Earth!

David Duchovny, who is best known for his starring role as Fox Mulder in the series The X Files, will be visiting our shores in mid June.

Ivan Reitman, who made "ghostbusting" a household word with his smash hit comedies "Ghostbusters" and "Ghostbusters II," now takes on the theory of "Evolution."

Chaos breaks out when a meteor crashes on Earth, bearing one-celled organisms. The problem is that they begin evolving at a pace much faster than what happened on our world. Changes that took billions of years happen in one month. As the film starts, they're kept within the confines of a cave, but what's going to happen when they get out? Four of the people investigating the cave are a community college professor (David Duchovny), his geologist buddy (Orlando Jones) and a government scientist (Julianne Moore).

If you would like to evolve by going along to see this new hilarious comedy and win an evolutionary prize pack, answer the following question:

What television series does David Duchovny currently star in?

Competition closes June 29, 2001

Scully (Gillian Anderson) and her partner Doggett (Robert Patrick) are getting closer to the truth behind the disappearance of Mulder. The discovery of abductees, seized at the same time as Mulder, has Scully fearing the worst. Age is certainly wearying this long-running series, but Patrick has brought the show added bite as a replacement for David Duchovny.

• March 2001: I was a teenage PUNK, Take 5
• February 2001: The truth is out there for the X-man, Sunday Telegraph TV Guide
  
• November 2000: Pregnant Pause, Brisbane Sunday Mail TV Scene
• September 2000: The X Factor, TV Soap
• August 2000: Minnie's All Heart, Toowoomba Chronicle
• July 2000: No 'X' please, I'm skittish, The Adelaide Advertiser
• July 2000: Crippling shyness ruined David's first big romance, Take 5
  
• April 1997: Gillian Anderson, Dolly

The X-Files was starting to hit its stride in this second year and this collection features episodes including Scully's abduction and the arrival of Agent Krycek. While there isn't a huge amount of extras (no commentaries) the deleted scenes and interviews you get are satisfying enough - the actor who plays Cigarette Smoking Man for instance - admitting the show got him hooked on fags ... Also many of the episodes have been unavailable to buy previously.
Show *****
Disc ****

Out of sight out of mind for David Duchovny.

It seems David's disappearance from The X-Files is not hurting the show after all. He made his return this month in the US for a six episode stint and ratings dived. The cult thriller had been pulling about 16 million viewers with Gillian Anderson and new guy Robert Patrick. Duchovny's first show back grabbed only 12 million.

Here's your chance to quiz the man formerly known as Mulder, as David Duchovny becomes the latest star to take his place in the Empire Public Access hotseat. From Twin Peaks and The X-Files, through to romancing Minnie Driver in Return To Me and battling aliens once again in this summer's blockbuster Evolution, he's waiting to answer all your questions about his career and more!

So whatever you'd like to ask him - and don't forget the more original the question the better chance there is we'll use it - jot it down and email it to us.

You've seen her battle aliens and other baddies on The X-Files. Now, actress Gillian Anderson returns to Yahoo! Chat to talk about her efforts to stop a real-life killer -- Neurofibromatosis (NF). NF is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that causes tumors to form on the nerves anywhere in the body at any time. This month, Gillian is holding her annual Yahoo! Auction to help raise money for the fight against NF.

For more than eight years, Anderson has earned critical acclaim, the praise of her peers and devotion of the masses for her portrayal of Dana Scully on FOX's The X-Files. She has steadily added film roles to her credits with The Mighty, Hellcab, Playing By Heart and most recently a starring role in Terrence Davies' The House of Mirth. So, make a bid on some incredible items for a worthy cause and join us on Tuesday, May 15 at 5pm ET/2pm PT (US times) for a chat with the X-traordinary Gillian Anderson.

'X FILES' BREAK DOESN'T EASE ACTING LOAD FOR DUCHOVNY
Bob Strauss L.A. Daily News

When David Duchovny cut his deal to appear in a limited number of this season's "The X Files" episodes, he figured he'd have more time to relax. Not the case, though, once he signed on to "Evolution," "Ghostbusters" director Ivan Reitman's alien invasion farce.

"It didn't turn out to be leisurely at all," said Duchovny, who traded Fox Mulder's competence for a goofy, all-thumbs professor role in the special-effects comedy. "I started this movie in October and finished it the day before going back to shoot my last six "X Files" episodes." Despite the punishing schedule and the desire he's had for years to get out of the televison-series grind, Duchovny admits that he has mixed feelings about his truncated, final "X" year.

"I guess I hadn't realized the sacrifice I would make, creatively, being away from the show," the actor admits. "I missed it in the sense that you'd miss anything you had so much interest and time invested in. But I didn't miss it in the sense that I'd want to continue." Duchovny remains open to possible "The X Files" feature films in the future.

Of course, if "Evolution" starts a franchise, double big-screen alien-fighting duty could turn into a greater burden than ever before.

• There is a half page review of Robert Patrick's movie All the Pretty Horses in the latest issue of Juice magazine. They only give it a 5 rating.
• According to the May Video Ezy magazine, now out, Vertical Limit will now be released on video on June 6. That's a week earlier than the previous date.
• There is a photo of Tèa Leoni with George Hamilton in Woman's Day this week.
• Yesterday's Gold Coast Bulletin TV Guide has a short article on Chris Carter and a review of Per Manum that you can read on my Australian Media page. Transcribed by Lucy.
• Today's Who Weekly has a one page interview with Robert Patrick, entitle The Grill.

Ask him if the glasses are real.
Tell him you like his hair.
See if he'll answer.

EVOLUTION
Another “X-File” for David Duchovny? Nope. This one’s a sci-fi comedy from Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”), starring Duchovny and Orlando Jones as professors who meet some way-out-of-towners. The aliens start as amoebas. In two weeks they’re eight feet tall and, uh, oddly equipped. “We were taken with their genitalia,” Duchovny says. “It looked hermaphroditic. So [co-star] Julianne [Moore] came up with the wonderful nomenclature of ‘testina’.”
By Devin Gordon
Opens June 8 in the US and July 5 in Australia.

The X-Files: The Complete Second series (1994; Fox; M15+; 18 hr 44 min) A seven disc 25- episode treat for X -Filers who yearn for the days of Scully and Mulder. Feature: Special effects, behind the scenes, deleted scenes, 15 minute documentary.

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