“X-Files : I Want to Believe” didn’t make much of a dint at the box office - probably just as well it didn’t cost an arm-and-a-leg to make.

FOX chairman Tom Rothman told IESB today that, despite the lackluster performance of the latter, there’s still the possibility of another - and he’s leaving it up to the cast and crew as to whether they’d like to see that happen.

‘It’s really up to Chris [Carter], David [Duchovny] and Gillian [Anderson]

Rothman tells the site.

Fox has announced an early-December Blu-ray arrival for ‘X-Files: I Want to Believe,’ which will come to high-def as the studio’s first title with BD-Live interactivity.

The follow-up to 1998’s first big-screen ‘X-Files’ film ‘Fight the Future,’ ‘I Want to Believe’ arrived in theaters this past summer over six years after the end of the television series. Again re-teaming David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as agents Mulder and Sculley, ‘I Want to Believe’ failed to ignite in theaters, grossing less than $25 million domestically.

Hoping to give the Chris Carter-directed thriller a second shot on video, Fox will debut the Blu-ray with multiple exclusives and Digital Copy on December 2, day-and-date with the standard DVD.

Complete supplements have not yet been revealed, but exclusive content confirmed so far includes a picture-in-picture (Bonus View) in-movie experience (featuring video commentary with cast & crew, behind-the-scenes footage and storyboards and concept art), an isolated score track and D-Box enhancement.

And in a first for the studio, the Blu-ray will include the BD-Live feature “The X-Files Dossier: Agent Dakota Whitney Files,” allowing users to search the files of the film’s characters.

Additional content shared between the Blu-ray and DVD include audio commentary by Carter and producer Frank Spotnitz, the “Trust No One: Can The X-Files Remain A Secret?” documentary, a pair of featurettes (”Body Parts: Special Make-up Effects,” “Chris Carter: Statements on Green Production”), deleted scenes, gag reel, still galleries, a music slideshow, theatrical trailers and a Digital Copy of the film.

Tech specs for the Blu-ray will see both the theatrical and unrated cuts of the film presented on a BD-50 dual-layer disc with 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video and English DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 Surround.

Suggested retail price for the Blu-ray has been set at $39.98.

Source: highdefdigest.com

Chris Carter, writer, producer, and director of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, was hospitalized on Tuesday due to “physical exhaustion and an acute sleeping disorder,” a source close to Carter (pictured, right, with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) tells EW.com. The source says the hospitalization stems from Carter “working on multiple films back to back over a two year period” — the recently released X-Files sequel and Fencewalker, a covert project he is rumored to have begun shooting earlier this year. He is expected to recover quickly.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

He may have found success again in the hit TV show ‘Californication’ but to millions David Duchovny will always be Special Agent Fox Mulder. Having played Mulder since 1993, Duchovny now, after six years, returns to his most iconic role. The long-anticipated second film, based on the phenomenally popular, award-winning series The X-Files reunites the series stars under the direction of series creator Chris Carter, who co-wrote the screenplay with Frank Spotnitz. Here, Duchovny talks to us about bringing the team back together, working with Gillian Anderson and going head to head with the Dark Knight at the box office.

Photos and a video clip of David on Jimmy Kimmel Live on July 30, 2008 promoting The X-Files: I Want to Believe:

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