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News Archive: July 2008
London Premiere
Posted at 7:20 AM (PDT) on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Gia Milinovich is a TV presenter who has been working on The X Files: I Want To Believe. She is going to be attending the premiere in London today. In order to let everyone *not* attending get a flavor of what is going on, she's going to *try* to film and broadcast live from her mobile. Read more at Gia's blog.
Leicester Square London Film Premiere webcam
iScully
Posted at 12:16 PM (PDT) on Monday, July 28, 2008
 This iScully iPhone Web App is very specific and serves a unique purpose. It allows you to purchase items from iTunes and contribute to NF, Inc. at the same time since it uses the same link that is on our iTunes affiliate button on the left side bar.
There is also a link to the ongoing auctions as well.
You can bookmark this on your iPhone home screen and you'll have a little icon that uses the picture on your phone for future purchases.
Before you buy something from iTunes use this site and make a difference.
You can use it from a regular browser as well but it is best viewed on the iPhone.
The first 6 seasons of The X-Files are now available at the iTunes Movie Store! Thanks to XCircles.
Gillian, Letterman, Kimmel, etc.
Posted at 11:05 AM (PDT) on Monday, July 28, 2008
1. Late Show with David Letterman
Tonight, JULY 28
CBS - 11:30pm ET/PT
Video
2. Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tuesday, JULY 29
ABC 12:05/11:05c
David Duchovny will be Kimmel's guest on July 30.
Video
3. Richard & Judy, UK
Tuesday, JULY 30
Channel 4, 5pm
Video: Part 1
Video: Part 2
4. Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz @ hmv oxford street
X Files Creator Chris Carter and Executive Producer Frank Spotnitz will be hosting a Q&A session, answering questions about the new X files film, 'The Files: I want to Believe'
HMV Store at 150 Oxofrd Street, London on Tuesday, JULY 29 at 6.30pm
HMV says it's a free event and they are operating it on a first come, first served basis. However, they advised that people check the website for updates in case they receive a lot of enquries and decide to give away tickets instead.
5. The London premiere at Leicester Square on Wednesday JULY 30 (with David Duchovny, Chris Carter, and Frank Spotnitz).
Video
CoffeeCakes' Moving Sale
Posted at 3:50 PM (PDT) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
CoffeeCakes.com is moving out west to Colorado, so they are selling their cakes at a great discount.
Now through July 31, 2008 SAVE 50% on select cakes and other products while supplies last. Choose from over 30 delicious cakes!
Visit CoffeeCakes.com or call anytime at 800-830-2696 to order.
Proceeds from CoffeeCakes.com go to benefit those affected by Neurofibromatosis (NF).
Last chance to bid on a 'meet & greet' with Gillian!
Posted at 6:57 AM (PDT) on Sunday, July 20, 2008
The auction for two (2) pairs of tickets to see Gillian on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on July 24 in Los Angeles will end in 12 hours!
Click on the links below to bid now!
Auction Lot 1
Auction Lot 2
Good Luck!
FOX invites X-Philes to gala event
Posted at 2:58 PM (PDT) on Friday, July 18, 2008
Official Release from 20th Century Fox:
THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE CELEBRATES FANS AT FILM’S PREMIERE, JULY 23, AT GRAUMAN’S CHINESE THEATRE
LOS ANGELES…They’ve long wanted to believe…and now the truth – and a new The X-Files movie – is finally out there for the legions of fans eagerly awaiting the debut of the next feature film based on the legendary television series. To honor these “X-Philes” (as the enthusiasts are known), Twentieth Century Fox is hosting a Fan Celebration at the world premiere screening of THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE on July 23 at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
The studio is inviting X-Philes to gather that day in specially-built seating in front of the Hollywood landmark, where they can observe the red-carpet arrivals – and participate in a special conference with the film’s stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, plus writer-producer-director Chris Carter and writer-producer Frank Spotnitz. Situated on a stage in front of the theater, the four filmmakers will field questions from the fans, prior to fulfilling their more traditional duties with the press. (Seating will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Special credentials will be distributed at 4:00 p.m. to the first 500 fans that arrive that day. The festivities will begin at 6:00 p.m.).
X-Philes around the globe will experience the gala event live, via a special internet site from which they can direct questions in real-time to the film’s cast and filmmakers. This worldwide community of fans will also meet over 100 of the series’ co-stars, guest stars, and behind-the-scenes personnel, who have already committed to attending the Celebration.
Many more items on the auction block
Posted at 7:51 PM (PDT) on Thursday, July 17, 2008
Gillian's tickets for the movie premieres in London and Los Angeles have been sold on the auction block. Congratulations to the winners and THANK YOU to everyone who participated!
For those still eager to get tickets, a few more are being auctioned by another charity Gillian supports, The Trevor Project.
There are two lots of two (2) tickets. Click links below to bid now! Their auction ends in just 20 hours!
Auction Lot 1
Auction Lot 2
X-Files the movie in tribute to the late Randy Stone, casting director for The X-Files, the series and co-founder of The Trevor Project.
ALSO: Hundreds of items from Gillian's personal X-Files memorabilia collection are being auctioned NOW!
Gillian signed on for audiobook version of Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
Posted at 2:13 PM (PDT) on Thursday, July 17, 2008
LOS ANGELES, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday this week, Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) announced plans to produce an audiobook version of Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales, an award-winning book of legendary tales hand-picked by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
An array of celebrated, award-winning performers are donating their talents to the charitable endeavor; those already signed on to voice stories include Gillian Anderson (Emmy/Golden Globe winner; X Files), America Ferrera (Emmy/Golden Globe winner; Ugly Betty), Whoopi Goldberg (Oscar/Tony/Emmy/GRAMMY® winner), Samuel L. Jackson (Cannes/BAFTA/Independent Spirit winner and Oscar nominee; Pulp Fiction), Alan Rickman (Emmy/Golden Globe winner, Rasputin; Harry Potter film series) and Jurnee Smollett (Critics Choice/ NAACP Image Award winner; The Great Debaters). Nobel laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will record a special message to the world's children that will be featured on the audiobook.
Read more...
X-Files Icons at Smithsonian
Posted at 3:18 PM (PDT) on Wednesday, July 16, 2008
USA Weekend The Who's News BlogBy Lorrie Lynch 'X Files' icons go to Smithsonian American history museum
Xfiles It’s official: the egg that haunted Sigourney Weaver in Alien and the ruby-red slippers that guided Judy Garland home have a new neighbor. Intern Lisa Gartner just got back from the National Museum of American History, where she saw Chris Carter, creator/director/producer/writer of The X-Files, donate a bunch of sci-fi goodies from the show to the museum’s entertainment collection. We’re talking the original television pilot script, Scully’s famous religion-versus-science cross necklace, and the FBI badges of America’s favorite fictional agents.
“Science-fiction has been a vital narrative strand in nearly every aspect of American popular culture,” said Jim Gardner, the museum’s associate director. “The X-Files series is a particularly important example of that tradition, with its quirky blend of the everyday and the paranormal.”
The Most-Likely-To-Haunt-Your-Dreams Object Award goes to the little alien maquette that was used to design the color and texture of the aliens in the first X-Files movie, Fight the Future. Other items include photographs and a poster from the I Want to Believe movie, autographed by Carter, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
“(The show) is representative of two very exploitable American qualities – fear and paranoia,” Carter joked. “I’m kidding, of course. Even though it was a dark show, even though it was a scary show, it was a show that represented a true American quality, which is the quality of hope.”
The National Museum of American History “has led the way in exploring and documenting America’s pop culture,” Gardner says, so it makes perfect sense to me that the X-Files paraphernalia belongs there. I mean, who was alive in the '90s that didn’t have an intense debate over whether or not Mulder and Scully should resolve their sexual tension? Keep on musing when the second X-Files film, I Want To Believe, opens in theaters on July 25, and the National Museum of American History re-opens this fall.
More tickets on the auction block!
Posted at 9:20 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
We have two (2) pairs of tickets to see Gillian on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on July 24 in Los Angeles.
One pair will benefit NF, Inc. and the other pair will benefit Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA).
Winners will also enjoy a 'meet & greet' with Gillian.
Click here to bid.
Good luck!
Movie Premiere Tix Auction Has Started!
Posted at 11:18 AM (PDT) on Thursday, July 10, 2008
Four (4) pairs of tickets to the London premiere at Leicester Square on July 30: two will benefit Salisbury Community Choir and two will benefit Buskaid.
Three (3) pairs of tickets to the Los Angeles premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on July 23: one pair will benefit NF, Inc. and the other two will benefit Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA).
Go to Gillian's Charity Auction on eBay.
Winners of all the premiere tix will be among the very first to see the much awaited movie AND will enjoy a 'meet & greet' with Gillian beforehand.
Also being auctioned: one pair of tickets to see Gillian on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 22 in Los Angeles; also to benefit Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) and includes a 'meet & greet' with Gillian.
"I just want to thank every last one of you for checking out this site, and most importantly supporting some of my favorite charities in the process of bidding lots and lots of money! Starting this July you'll be able to bid on hundreds of items I have saved from the series from signed magazine covers and stills to scripts to clothing to specialty items like FBI badges and even a Scully cross! Also you will see there are premiere tickets and a talk show or two where we can meet and take pictures back stage. So thank you for visiting and please come back with your credit card over the next few weeks." -- Gillian.
NOTE: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, and David Duchovny are all scheduled to attend both premieres, but there is absolutely no guarantee winners will be able to meet them as well. These auctions only include a 'meet and greet' with Gillian Anderson.
Hotel, flight, and ground transportation are not included and are the sole responsibility of the winning bidders.
Sneak Peak at New TXF Comic Book
Posted at 5:33 AM (PDT) on Wednesday, July 9, 2008
As we wait for the new movie to open, EW.com presents an exclusive preview of "The X-Files #0," Frank Spotnitz's illustrated take on the supernatural show.
By Nisha Gopalan
Entertainment Weekly
The truth? It'll be out there in theaters when The X-Files: I Want to Believe opens July 25. But thanks to Frank Spotnitz, the franchise's coproducer and cowriter, it'll also be available in comic-book form two days earlier, when DC's The X-Files #0 hits stores. While the film takes place after the TV series' end, Spotnitz's title (illustrated by Iron Man: Hypervelocity's Brian Denham) is fully ensconced in buzzy season 5, with Special Agent Dana Scully's cancer in attack mode, and her FBI partner, Fox Mulder, initially on the lam, probing Scully's illness as well as surreptitious alien types.
Issue #0 is a story Spotnitz always wanted to tell, but never had a chance to. And it will, in fact, springboard into a few original comics miniseries set throughout seasons 2 and 5 of the show. Also, these tales will feature a familiar evil force. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. To jump-start the X-Files' long-awaited resurrection, DC and Spotnitz have given EW.com this exclusive first look at pages from The X-Files #0.
Click here for a preview of the beautifully illustrated panels!
"The X-Files Special #0" - Comic GIVEAWAY!!!
Weekly Comic Book Review.com is giving away a copy of the X-Files Special #0 comic to five lucky winners. Giveaway is open to anyone in the world. The contest will be open until the end of July (the comic comes out on July 23rd) and winners will be chosen from a random integer generator.
It will have a Photo cover and a Variant Cover by Brian Denham. 40pg., Color, $2.99 US. On Sale July 23, 2008.
Click here for more information.
Upcoming Auctions: Q&A with Gillian
Posted at 11:24 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Tell us a little about the charities you have chosen. Do you have personal connections to them or was it something else that drew you to them?
Three of these charities have been close to my heart for some years now and one is a new venture in just trying to help someone get a film made about a special group of people that I feel deserve attention and recognition.
What is the strangest thing you have ever auctioned for charity?
Strangest thing I've ever auctioned is an old smelly pair of well worn flip flops.
Is there one item (or two) in this auction that is special to you; one you had a hard time parting with?
There's an FBI file that I'm a bit hesitant to auction cause it may be one of only two in existence - but I'm doing it anyway!
There are many behind the scenes photos. If you look at them, can you remember any of those specific moments?
Almost all the behind the scene photographs bring back extremely vivid memories, yeah, and are actually quite intimate - not just the ones with Rob Bowman giving me a bear hug - but they are quite special compared to all the posed photos out there.
And finally, your fans loved your very short participation in the American Idol Gives Back event last year. How did you get involved in that?
The American Idol thing I recorded in London and actually sang not only that whole damn song over and over again in entirety only for 2 seconds of use! BUT did a version where I pretended to audition for American idol acapella and do a really bad job. Which of course they never used but I'm sure it will pop up at some point to embarrass me.
July 10 Auction: L.A. & London Premiere Tix!
Posted at 11:59 AM (PDT) on Monday, July 7, 2008
Meet Gillian Anderson! 7 Pairs of Premiere Tickets!
Here's your chance to win tickets to the Los Angeles and London premieres of The X-Files: I Want To Believe.
Three (3) pairs of tickets to the Los Angeles premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on July 23: one pair will benefit NF, Inc. and the other two will benefit Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA).
Four (4) pairs of tickets to the London premiere at Leicester Square on July 30: two will benefit Salisbury Community Choir and two will benefit Buskaid.
Winners will be among the very first to see the much awaited movie AND will enjoy a 'meet & greet' with Gillian beforehand*.
Also being auctioned on July 10:
One pair of tickets to see Gillian on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 22 in Los Angeles. A 'meet & greet' with Gillian is included in this auction which will also benefit Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA).
More details to be announced soon, including the JULY 17th launch of GILLIAN'S X-FILES MEMORABILIA AUCTION on eBay.
*NOTE: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, and David Duchovny are all scheduled to attend both premieres, but there is absolutely no guarantee winners will be able to meet them as well. This auction only includes a 'meet and greet' with Gillian Anderson.
Hotel, flight, and ground transportation are not included and are the sole responsibility of the winning bidders.
Essential Guide to "I Want To Believe"
Posted at 7:35 AM (PDT) on Sunday, July 6, 2008
 Essential Guide to The X-Files Movie: 8 Critical Episodes Handpicked By Chris Carter
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This title will be released on July 8, 2008.
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Fox Home Entertainment presents an exclusive insider’s pass to the science-fiction television phenomenon just in time for its second trip to the big screen when “THE X-FILES” REVELATIONS descends onto a two-disc DVD collection July 8th.
Selected by eight-time Emmy® Award nominated series creator Chris Carter himself, all eight full hour episodes in the compilation include special on-camera introductions by Carter and producer Frank Spotnitz, revealing why each were chosen and how they relate to the highly anticipated feature film, invading theaters on July 25th.
Also featured on the set is the February 2008 WonderCon panel session with Carter and Spotnitz, as well as series stars David Duchovny (Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Scully), making their first fan convention appearance together in several years and taking questions from rabid “X-Philes,” in an interview spanning over 38 minutes.
These eight essential episodes – “Pilot,” “Beyond the Sea,” “The Host,” “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” “Memento Mori,” “The Post-Modern Prometheus,” “Bad Blood” and “Milagro” – span seasons 1–6 and cover a variety of paranormal and unexplained cases centering on alien abductions, psychic phenomenon and life forms not quite human that set the stage for the eagerly anticipated sequel.
As an added bonus, the DVD set also features the theatrical teaser trailer along with a free Hollywood Movie Money ticket (valued at $8.50 U.S.) to see the sequel in theaters.
In the United Kingdom, it's known as "THE X-FILES - ESSENTIALS".
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This title will be released on July 14, 2008.
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It's July! XF2 will soon be on big screens everywhere!
Posted at 8:19 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Gillian's Scheduled Appearances:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on JULY 22
Jimmy Kimmel Live! on JULY 24. (this show will air on JULY 29)
Late Show with David Letterman on JULY 28.
The Los Angeles premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Wednesday JULY 23.
And...
The London premiere at Leicester Square on Wednesday JULY 30 (with David Duchovny, Chris Carter, and Frank Spotnitz).
Gillian's 'Gellhorn' Project
Posted at 7:43 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 1, 2008
March 22, 2005 - Gillian has the rights to Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead and plans to make a feature film (not a biopic) focusing on the marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn. Sharman Macdonald will write the screenplay and Gillian will play the role of Martha Gellhorn.
April 23, 2007 - And one more thing, read the first draft of the Gellhorn script and it's reeaally good. Phew! You never know if you're on the right track until you are or you aren't and I think we are. I got goose bumps. Can't wait to share that story on the big screen with everyone. Many more hurdles to cross before then though. Thanks for everyone's continuing interest and support for that project.
June 30, 2008 - Variety published more news on this project: "Martha Gellhorn was one of the most respected journalists of this century, and I thought Caroline's biography effectively encompassed her rich and complex life," Anderson said. Read more.
Note: As stated in the March 22, 2005 blurb, the film is not a biopic.
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