It’s been six years since the show ended, and since the first X-Files movie came out. It’s questionable why they decided to make a second X-Files movie but for die-hard fans of the show, it’s what they have been waiting for. Not much has been given away in terms of the plot so here are just snippets of it. Scully (Gillian Anderson) is now a doctor at a kids hospital and Mulder (David Duchovny) is in hiding because of the charges against him. An FBI agent goes missing and needs their help. Mulder is all for it but Scully begins to have second thoughts as she is too distracted by doing a stem cell operation on a boy she is looking after and the crazy antics of Father Joe (Billy Connolly), even though she was the one that persuaded him to come back. Anderson, Duchovny, Amanda Peet, Xzibit and Billy Connolly give decent performances, although sometimes Anderson delivered lines that sounded very written. The plot is something you would see on the TV show but it was handled quite well. Another tip for die-hard fans, get happy because all hope is not lost between the love of Mulder and Scully (!!!).

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By Gregg Goldstein

July 22, 2008, 12:00 AM ET

Michael Vartan and David Cross will play bitter tire store rivals in the comedy “Demoted” for Parallel Media’s new genre arm Parallel Zide.

Vartan will play Rodney McAdams, a hotshot Treadline Tires sales associate who delights in tormenting his less-than-cool colleague, Ken (Cross). But when their boss suddenly dies, Ken is promoted and assigns Rodney to a secretarial job as payback, giving the male chauvinist a taste of his own medicine.

J.B. Rogers (”American Pie 2″) will direct from a screenplay by Dan Callahan. Warren Zide (”Final Destination”) will produce through Parallel Zide. Ryan Lewis is executive producing the feature, which begins production Sept. 2 in Michigan.

Vartan next stars opposite Dermot Mulroney in Dan Ireland’s “Jolene: My Life.” Cross can next be seen in Harold Ramis’ “Year One.”

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Newcomer Beth Rowley makes a stellar effort in her debut album, Little Dreamer. The 26-year-old curly haired British lass is newest Jazz singing sensation with her soulful voice and smooth voice that easily calibers her to be the New Joss Stone. However there’s a little more firecracker in her tracks. She jazzes up her album with her slow and sleek opening track, “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” and “Sweet Hours”, the gospel and Southern rock inspired songs, “When The Rain Comes” and “Only One Cloud”, the sweeping saxophone notes played on “Oh My Life”, and the country throwback in “I Shall Be Released”. Big things are going to come through her way and she’s a musician to be on the lookout for.

By MICHAEL FLEMING

Tobey Maguire is attached to Universal’s “The Crusaders,” a drama about the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.

Gary Ross is attached to direct, and U has hired “Recount” scribe Danny Strong to write the script.

Maguire would play Jack Greenberg, who, as an idealistic lawyer fresh out of law school, joined with NAACP Legal Defense Fund head and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to win a Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in American schools illegal.

Bob Cooper is producing, and Ross and Maguire will be exec producers through Ross’s U-based Larger Than Life Prods.

Ross and Maguire teamed on “Pleasantville” and “Seabiscuit.”

Strong, a former assistant to Ross, received an Emmy nomination last week for scripting the Jay Roach-directed HBO film “Recount.”

“Recount” was Strong’s first scripting credit, but he has a long list of them as an actor. Aside from a recurring roles on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” he also played small roles in “Pleasantville” and “Seabiscuit.”

The project, based on Greenberg’s memoirs “Crusaders in the Courts,” was originally developed by Cooper at New Line. That studio let it go after New Line was absorbed by Warner Bros.Ross will next direct Universal drama “The Free State of Jones,” about rebellion in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Source: Variety