Dear X-Files,

What happened? You used to show up every week in my living room, and then, after a long, fading relationship, you disappeared. Then you showed up again -- this time on the big screen -- only to disappear in a matter of days. Were you in hiding, like a certain lanky former FBI agent whose name rhymes with "Box Culder"? Were you trying to slip away before anyone noticed you were back? If so, mission accomplished!

Tags: Billy Connolly, Dana Scully, David Duchovny, Flukeman, Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson, I Want to Believe, X-Files

You may recall several months ago when we at The Moviefile reported on the upcoming X-Files film and noted that writer/director Chris Carter was keeping plot details from the film so tight that crew members were only allowed to read the script in a video-monitored room. Now Carter seems to be delving even deeper into life as a secret squirrel: he's keeping the fact that he's directing a new film entirely under wraps. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story today that Carter is already halfway through directing Fencewalker, a dark drama starring Natalie Dormer, Katie Cassidy (David Cassidy's daughter!) and Xzibit. The film, currently shooting in L.A., is rumored to be a coming-of-age, semi-autobiographical (the longest word I've typed in five years) character piece. THR also points out that the film has no supernatural elements, unless you count the director's paranoia. What it is he has to be paranoid about, I'm not sure.

Tags: Chris Carter, Cloverfield, David Duchovny, Fencewalker, Gillian Anderson, J.J. Abrams, Katie Cassidy, Natalie Dormer, X-Files, Xzibit

The Dark Knight didn't just win its second weekend at the box office, it made another $75.6 million. That's more than twice what the No. 2 movie, Step Brothers, could muster, with its $30 million opening weekend.

Tags: box office, Dark Knight, I Want to Believe, Iron Man, Mamma Mia, record, Step Brothers, X-Files

So how do old franchises that haven't been in the limelight in years but have a new film coming out woo their old audiences back for one more shot at box office success? If you're the studio behind The X-Files, you throw one slam-bang, pretty seriously awesome premiere. 20th Century Fox is hosting what they're calling a Fan Celebration at the world premiere screening of The X-Files: I Want to Believe on July 23rd at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

Tags: Chris Carter, Dana Scully, David Duchovny, Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson, I Want to Believe, X-Files

I'm happy to report that this is not yet another celebrity-goes-to-rehab/gets-committed story -- just another bulletin from the casting couch. Will Ferrell has been attached to star in upcoming concept comedy 2-Face, a story about a racist man who, after a prank gone wrong, develops a split personality, with his new persona being that of a bleeding-heart liberal. [And not at all a story about a Gotham City District Attorney who is horribly burned by acid. - Zach]

Tags: 2-Face, Batman, Dark Knight, Hancock, Two-Face, WIll Ferrell, X-Files