Kolkata seems to have caught the fancy of Oscar-winning director Jeffrey D Brown, who has been spotted shooting his first fiction feature film at different locales in the City of Joy. Actress Gillian Anderson of The X Files fame joined the film’s cast and crew three days ago. Jeffrey has been in the city for nearly 25 days. Gillian will be staying on for around 20 days as per the film’s first schedule. A crew member revealed, “Jeffrey’s film is about sex trafficking in India. He is following the story of a 13-year-old girl who had been smuggled into a red-light area of ... [Continua a leggere]

Frank Spotnitz è conosciuto sopratutto per il suo lavoro come sceneggiatore nella serie televisiva cult X-Files, per la quale ottenne una nomination agli Emmy per l’episodio Il male oscuro, scritto assieme a Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan e John Shiban, e per aver lavorato con Carter alla sceneggiatura di X-Files – Il film e X-Files: Voglio crederci. Per anni si è parlato della lavorazione di un terzo film della franchise ma per il momento, non è ancora stato realizzato nessun script, anche se lo scrittore ha delle idee molto chiare sulla direzione che vorrebbe f ... [Continua a leggere]

David Duchovny is reportedly planning to take a year off work to play golf. The actor has been starring in the TV show Californication since 2007, in which he portrays a troubled writer with a complicated love life. Although he enjoys making the programme, the star's love of golf has reportedly got him thinking that there might be more to life. "David insists the current season of Californication will be his last. He's got a couple of movies in the works but once those are wrapped he wants to travel the world and play on some of the famous golf courses," an insider told National Enquirer. " ... [Continua a leggere]

With the BBC broadcast of Hunted finishing this Thursday, we chatted to series creator Frank Spotnitz about the BBC's decision not to renew the spy drama, the show's public reception, and his plans for the forthcoming HBO/Cinemax Hunted spin-off. That interview will be available to read in full tomorrow, but in the meantime, we thought you might be interested in this little snippet of The X-Files-related chat. As a former executive producer of The X-Files, we first asked Spotnitz what the status was on the franchise's planned third and final film (Spotn ... [Continua a leggere]

Cinemax’s latest original series, “Hunted” stars Melissa George” as Sam Hunter, an agent for the private intelligence firm Byzantium. Her current mission has Sam going undercover as a family’s nanny, and so far every situation has her fighting with or shooting at bad guys. We got to chat with creator Frank Spotnitz by phone, while he is still in London where “Hunted” is based. We know Spotnitz from his years of work on “The X-Files” and “Millennium,” so we had to ask for an update on the third X-Files movie too. ... [Continua a leggere]

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC-Cinemax series Hunted won’t go beyond its current freshman season after BBC One opted not to renew the espionage drama for a second season. But Cinemax is working with series creator Frank Spotnitz on a new incarnation of the show about spy Sam Hunter (Melissa George). “We are making plans with creator and executive producer Frank Spotnitz and star Melissa George to present a new chapter in the Sam Hunter mythology,” Kary Antholis, President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, said in a statement to Deadline. “We are very pleased with what Hunted ... [Continua a leggere]

All right, we haven’t had a Rumor Mill update in a very long while, so now that we’re up and running on the newly-redesigned Bits, it feels like it’s time to get the Mill going again, yes? And with a nice Cold War-era, espionage-inspired logo to boot! So here’s today’s dispatch: A number of our industry sources are now telling us that Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is planning (and in fact may already be gearing up to) release their classic TV series The X-Files on Blu-ray. As fans will already be aware, the first four seasons of the show were produced ... [Continua a leggere]

The Exorcist “A priest walks down the hall and enters a little girl’s bedroom and sits next to the bed. It’s the scariest movie ever, and yet think about how simple that is. I’m very careful to make sure the mythology in The Walking Dead does not get too complicated. I always want the problems that our characters have to be as simple as possible. For example, in the second episode this season: We discovered some prisoners, and the question was what to do with them. ‘You give us half the food; we get you to the cell block.’ It’s not overly complicated ... [Continua a leggere]

It was heartening to hear Bob Schultz say at the beginning of his interview with Frank Spotnitz that he’s been to many screenwriters’ festivals and that The London Screenwriters Festival is one of the best festivals he’s ever seen. I happen to agree, even though LSF is actually the only screenwriters festival I’ve ever attended. The truth is that be it two people or six hundred there is something very special about a communion of screenwriters in a room, and while I’ve been blown away on a number of occasions this year, here in this room I feel that creative kinsh ... [Continua a leggere]

GILLIAN Anderson found fame as a sceptical alien hunter on the X-Files but her discovery of period drama, and small indie film roles have brought her real contentment. When Gillian Anderson arrives for our interview she has to take a moment before we begin. She’s moving house tomorrow and looks distinctly discombobulated. “I just need to put my mind in the zone,” she says with a polite smile. “Too many things going on.” She rests her face in her hands for a few seconds while she composes herself, takes a breath and switches on. Moving house is a stressful busines ... [Continua a leggere]

In your new film, Sister, you're known as "the English Lady". How English do you feel? I feel very English until I'm in America, and then I feel very American. I was always teased at primary school – I was "the yank", even though I had British accent. I would have thought I would feel more like an imposter now, but I don't. I have been in the UK for the past 10 years, but Britain has been such a through-line throughout my life because my parents still had a flat in Haringey, north London, and we used to come back in the summer. During hiatuses from the X-Files I would come back and rent ... [Continua a leggere]

Gillian Anderson is to play a witch as she leads the cast in a BBC adaptation of hit children's book Room On The Broom to be screened at Christmas. The actress - who won acclaim for her portrayal of creepy Miss Havisham in a TV version of Great Expectations - will be among the star voices in the animated version of Julia Donaldson's book. Also in the cast are Rob Brydon playing a cat, while David Walliams is to appear as a frog in the half-hour film, to be screened on BBC1. It is being made by the team behind The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, also written by Children's Laureate Donalds ... [Continua a leggere]

David Duchovny, Hope Davis e Timothy Hutton, tre delle più grandi star del piccolo e grande schermo, parteciperanno ad uno dei film più attesi della prossima stagione cinematografica: After the Fall. Scritto da Carroll Cartwright e diretto da Anthony Fabian, After the Fallnarra la struggente storia vera di due genitori costretti ad accettare l’improvvisa morte della loro unica figlia. Distrutti dal dolore e dalla disperazione i due decidono di incanalare la sofferenza in un incredibile progetto umanitario: la costruzione di un centro di terapie alternative in cui i genitor ... [Continua a leggere]

Chris Carter is responsible for the nightmares of a generation. As the creator of "The X-Files" and "Millennium," he shepherded in a new wave of horror and suspense on television, and his legacy can be seen in the success of everything from “Fringe” to “The Walking Dead.” For his contributions to the medium, Carter received the Outstanding Television Writer award from the Austin Film Festival, where he appeared on several panels and presented a pair of episodes from his best-known series. Indiewire got a chance to sit down with him in Austin to talk about everything fr ... [Continua a leggere]

“Shawshank Redemption” director Frank Darabont accepted the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award from the Austin Film Festival on Saturday and swore that the typewriter-like trophy wouldn’t be going in his bathroom or on some shelf. “It’s going on my desk, right next to that (expletive) computer,” he said. “This will remind me of the encouragement that this gives me,” he told the annual awards luncheon at the Austin Club downtown. Darabont joined screenwriter Eric Roth and television writer Chris Carter in accepting awards from the fe ... [Continua a leggere]