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General Movie Info

Title: The X-Files

Genre: Thriller/Horror/Science Fiction/Action/Mystery/Drama/Cult

Taglines/Slogans: (1) Fight the Future (2) For years, the world has seen reality distorted. Facts manipulated. And truth hidden. But there's even more to the story than anyone has ever suspected. Because no one has been able to see the whole picture. Until now. (3) Cherish the past. Enjoy the present. Because the truth is coming. (4) There are forces on Earth too hidden to be detected. Conspiracies too vast to be uncovered. But [on [June 19]/[Date]]/[in 1998], the truth is [coming]/[revealed]. (5) The truth [is]/[will be] revealed, [June 19]/[Date]/[only in [theaters]/[cinemas]]. (6) [On [June 19]/[Date]]/[This [year]/[summer]] take your [greatest]/[worst] fear[s][, your most paranoid suspicion, and your darkest nightmare,] and multiply it by X. (7) [Attention:] Drive the car. See the movie. (8) Everything they've suspected, everything they've searched for, and everything they've feared will finally be revealed only in theaters. (9) [[Starts] [June 19]/[Date],] only in [theaters]/[cinemas]. (10) [In 33 days]/[This year] the lies will be exposed, the threat will be uncovered, and our greatest fears will be multiplied by X. (11) On June 19 the truth is revealed in the motion picture event of the summer. (12) It's coming, hidden in the light, undetected, something you never expected, because no one has seen the whole picture until now. [Oldsmobile Intrigue Promo] (13) [TODAY]/[TOMORROW] THE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE BEGINS (14) AMERICA'S #1 FILM (15) THE DATE HAS BEEN SET (16) Fear it. Face it. Fight it. (17) Believe...[Play...]and Win! [Nokia Contest] (18) The Music to the Movie [Soundtrack] (19) Hear the Truth Revealed at 10:13 [Soundtrack] (20) 20 MILLION X-FILES FANS KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT 1013 [Video] (21) Own the Ultimate X-Files Experience. Only on Video. [Video] (22) The X-Files Opened #1 at the Box Office! ... The Ultimate X-File! ... The Evidence Is Indisputable! [Video] (23) One Man Alone Cannot Fight the Future. (24) Play. Believe. Win. [Nokia Contest] (25) NOW ON VIDEO [Video] (26) Discover the past, live the present, fight the future. (27) The Ultimate X-Perience for The X-Files Collector! [Collector's Gift Set] (28) Something's coming...it's something that they never suspected...because no one has learned the truth...known the facts...or seen the whole picture...until now. [Intrigue Brochure]

FBI Special Agents Mulder and Scully delve deeply into the psyche of the paranormal and ultimately expose the truth behind a secret project that threatens to irrevocably alter the future of mankind.

Sometimes "theaters" is spelled "theatres," especially on international posters. The slogans and taglines have also been translated to other languages.

Official Summary #1|Official Summary #2|Official Summary #3|Official Summary #4|Official Background Info

Acclaim: (1) America's #1 film "is one smart scary movie."--Newsweek (2) "Two thumbs up."--Siskel and Ebert (3) "A crackling adventure. Enjoy the ride."--Gene Shalit, NBC-TV, The Today Show (4) "Smart, sexy and sensational...'X' marks the spot."--Mike Cidoni, ABC-TV (5) "Sharp, mysterious and wonderful, The X-Files moves to the big screen, offering everything a great action thriller should: intelligence, excitement, and awesome special effects."--Newsweek

Previous/Possible Titles: Blackwood, The X-Files: Blackwood, Blackwood: The X-Files, The X-Files: The Movie, Fighting [for] the Future, The X-Files: The Date is Set, The X-Files: Fight the Future, Fight the Future, The X-Files: Set the Date

Release Info and Events [top]

U.S. Release Dates:

Premiere: June 11, 1998
Press Screenings: June 12-18, 1998
Advance Screenings: June 18, 1998
Theaters: June 19, 1998
Video: October 13, 1998
Divx: October 16, 1998
Collector's Gift Set: November 17, 1998
Fox Pay-Per-View Premiere: November 27, 1998
Video CD: November 30, 1998
Dolby Digital LaserDisc: December 8, 1998
DTS LaserDisc: January 12, 1999
HBO Premiere: May 1, 1999
DVD: May 4, 1999
HBO Plus Premiere: June 17, 1999
Fox World Network Premiere: 2000
FX First Run: 2001
Fox Second Run: 2002
FX Second Run: 2003-2005

International Release Dates

Movie Events:

Order the enhanced X-Files screensaver CD from the Sunday Times! (The Sunday Times--Get a user ID and see the August 9, 1998 issue for the X-Files movie special.)

Get your copy of The X-Files video signed by Rob Bowman and Dean Haglund!

Win a trip to the X-Files set at bookstores and theaters across Germany!

This is for U.K. and Northern Ireland fans ONLY. To coincide with the release of the X-Files movie, Blockbuster Video has a competition running to win:

1 Signed Film Script, 1 X-Files Poster, 1 T-Shirt, and Files 1-12 Videos of the Show

There will also be nine runner-up prizes consisting of 1 t-shirt and 1 poster.

The Question:
"What is Mulder's first name?"
a) Fox
b) Squirrel
c) Agent

Call 0930 200 219 with your answer. See the February 1999 issue of Blockbuster's Scene magazine for more info.

At Blockbuster Australia if you pick up their new releases magazine, call the phone number listed there, and answer the question "In which city does the spectacular explosion of an office building occur?" you could win one of these prizes:
First prize - a Toshiba notebook valued at $3,000 and a copy of the movie
Runners-up prize x 10 - an autographed photo of Gillian Anderson, the movie soundtrack CD, a making of the X-Files movie book, and the set of five season one videos (video waves 1 and 2, minus video #4 which has already been released as "Tooms")
Consolation prize x 30 - a movie soundtrack CD
Competition closes March 17.

At Top Video you can win one of 2 limited-edition movie scripts signed by Chris Carter himself, a video, movie soundtrack, cap, and t-shirt. 30 runners-up will get the CD soundtrack, cap, and t-shirt. All you have to do is pick up their new releases magazine, fill in the form and send it in. Competition closes March 17.

Special Screening of The X-Files at Philips OpenAir Cinema in Sydney, Australia on February 5, 1999!

Special Screening of The X-Files at King's Outdoor Park Screen in Perth, Australia on February 27, 1999!

Dean Haglund is appearing at HMV, 150 Oxford Street, London, England on Thursday, April 1 at 12:30 p.m. to sign copies of the movie!

Take part in a contest with details on the back of promo cards available in theaters across Singapore!

Chat with William B. Davis on August 15, 1999 at 2 p.m. at www.bigpond.com, promoting the Special Edition video release in Australia (click here for transcript)!

U.S. Movie Events|U.K. Movie Events|German Movie Events|German Movie News|Japanese Roadshow

The Makers [top]

Credits: Twentieth Century Fox Film (U.S.), Hispano Foxfilm (Spain), Filmes Castello Lopes (Portugal), Columbia TriStar Egmont Film Distributors (Finland), and UGC-Fox Distribution (France), distributors; Twentieth Century Fox and Ten Thirteen, production companies; Mark Snow, composer; Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., special makeup effects (Amalgamated Dynamics); Howard Berger, creature makeup effects (KNB Effects); Lance Anderson, makeup artist; John Dods, makeup effects artist; Frank Spotnitz, co-producer; Mary Astadourian, associate producer; J. D. Disalvatore, miniature producer; Liberman/Hirschfeld Casting, C.S.A., casting; Stephen Mark, film editor; Gian Ganziano, editor (Avid, Blue Sky/VIFX); Margaret Adachi; first assistant editor; R. Orlando Duenas, assistant editor (Avid); James Andrykowski, co-first assistant editor; Gary Burritt, negative cutter; Susan Shackelford, dialogue editor; Donald Sylvester, supervising foley editor; Ned R. Shapiro, location manager; Christopher Nowak, production designer; Marlene Stewart, costume designer; Mat Beck, visual effects supervisor (Light Matters); Colin Strause, visual effects assistant; Kurt Williams, visual effects producer; Derek Spears, digital effects supervisor; Chuck Stewart, special effects supervisor; Tony Torolano, special effects assistant; Dale Tanguay, mechanical effects consultant; Robert Spurlock, visual effects consultant; Pamela Choules, visual effects editor; David Peterson, special effects shop foreman; Stan Blackwell, special effects foreman; Paul J. Lombardi, special effects coordinator; Scott D. Mattson, special effects assistant office coordinator; Scott Schneider, model effects supervisor (Blue Sky/VIFX); Alison Yerxa, model detailer; Bob Spurlock, model engineer; Mark A. Brown, chief technologist (Blue Sky/VIFX); Charlie Parsons, Herb Williams, and Will Heaton, law-enforcement advisors; Norman Gary, bee wrangler; Dennis Butterworth, greensman; Bob Clark, train coordinator; Todd Adelman, medic; Bob Decker, location manager; Marc Fisichella, Gregory Bolton, and Hugo Santiago, art directors; Tim Flattery, conceptual artist; Dennis McNeill, color timer; Robb Gardner, pre-vis animator; Chris Hanson, set supervisor (KNB Effects); Jackie Carr, set decorator; Easton Michael Smith, set designer; Billy Iiams, set construction supervisor; W. Regan McGee and Steve J. Sanchez, 2-D animators; Jongwoo Heo and Chris Y. Yang, 3-D animators; R. J. Kizer, ADR supervisor; Merrick Morton, still photographer; Daniel E. Teaze, first assistant camera: second unit; Ward Russell, director of photography; Phil Pastuhov, aerial director of photography; David Paris, aerial coordinator; Dick Pope, London director of photography; Dave Drzewiecki, freelance director of photography; Josh McLaglen, assistant director; Michael Moore, second assistant director; Alex L. Worman, unit publicist; Geoffrey Patterson, sound; Craig Heath, sound recordist; John A. Larsen, supervising sound editor; Steve F. Price, sound production assistant; Mark Lambert, technical producer (Hollywood Digital); David Womark, production manager; Robert Mendoza, post-production assistant; John Nein, production secretary; Mary Leitz, digital compositor; Edwin Rivera, digital compositing supervisor; Heather Burton, John Epstein, and Jimmy Romano, stunts; Lata Ryan, executive producer; Chris Carter and Daniel Sackheim, producers; Chris Carter, screenplay; Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, story; Tricia Ronten, script supervisor; E. J. Forester, Alexander Witt, Billy Burton, and Brian Spizer, second-unit directors; John Wash, miniature model director; Rob Bowman, director; Hunter/Gratzner Industries, miniature model makers; Ian O'Connor, miniature pyrotechnician; and Blue Sky/VIFX, Pixel Envy, and Full Scale Effects, other special effects.

Actors: David Duchovny, Special Agent Fox Mulder; Gillian Anderson, Special Agent Dana Scully; Mitch Pileggi, Assistant Director Walter Skinner; Martin Landau, Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil; Armin Mueller-Stahl, Conrad Strughold; Blythe Danner, Assistant Director Jana Cassidy; Glenne Headley, Bartender; Lucas Black, Stevie; Gary Grubbs, Fire Captain Miles Cooles; T. W. King, FBI Agent; Hrothgar Matthews, Paramedic; Vanessa Morley, Samantha (in photograph); Joel Traywick, Young Naval Guard; Marcus Turner, Young Fox Mulder (in photograph); Craig Davis and Carrick O'Quinn, Primitives; Tom Woodruff, Jr., Alien; William B. Davis, Cigarette-Smoking Man; John Neville, Well-Manicured Man; Don S. Williams, First Elder; Stanley Walsh, Second Elder; Dean Haglund (Ringo Langly), Tom Braidwood (Melvin Frohike), and Bruce Harwood (John Fitzgerald Byers), The Lone Gunmen; Terry O'Quinn, Special Agent-in-Charge Darius Michaud; Jeffrey DeMunn, Dr. Ben Bronschweig; and Michael Shamus Wiles, Black-Haired Man.

Web Sites and Online Events [top]

Official Web Sites:

Toll-Free Phone Numbers for Merchandise|Buy French Merchandise|Buy X-Files Movie Merchandise from the U.S. Official Fan Club's Vault|Other Official Sites

Official Contests/Sweepstakes:

All contests are done.

Special Offers: Test-drive the Oldsmobile Intrigue and receive two free tickets to the movie! (done and down) Receive a special mailing, test-drive the Intrigue and receive 6 free tickets to the movie! (done) Get free tickets to the first U.K. public screening of The X-Files or a "body bag"! (done and down) CC the desktop application to Fox and win prizes! (done and down)

Sponsorships: Oldsmobile Intrigue, Nokia 6160.

Movie Scene Info [top]

Scenes Taken Out:

Major Scenes

• The original ending with the Cigarette-Smoking Man confronting Mulder. The ending was re-shot with Mulder and Scully late in production. Here's more info courtesy of Rob Bowman in an article:
  
  As for the sequence that had to be redone? It involved the scene at the movie's end, with Mulder and Scully talking in the park. "Right now, it's David and Gillian resolving their relationship. It used to begin with the Cigarette-Smoking Man [William B. Davis] reading a newspaper article about the hantavirus. Mulder showed up and started talking to him as though they know each other, with Mulder reciting things he heard in the alley from Kurtzweil [Martin Landau] about there being a date set, probably on a holiday," Bowman explains. "CSM's eyes just opened up as if he were saying, 'How do you know this?' Well, the problem was that Mulder walked up to him and said, 'Hey buddy, how you doing?' They were just talking. That might have been OK on the series, but in the test screenings, non-fans said, 'Well, wait a minute, who is this guy? And now he and Mulder are chatting like friends?' It annoyed them. So we re-shot it and focused more on the resolution of Mulder and Scully's relationship," he continues. "We then put CSM up on a hill, watching them. It poisoned the scene. Mulder and Scully were left there standing, wondering what's going to happen next, and we cut to CSM. It was a bit like a sledgehammer to the head, so we cut that out, too. At points, it became too great a burden for the audience to take everything in and figure out what it meant. It was actually a more fan-specific movie than it is now because we started talking about things that, if you didn't know the series intimately, you wouldn't know what the heck these people were talking about--and they were talking about it with such great magnitude and weight. There's a lot of information in the movie and, like the show, you HAVE to pay attention."
  
  Here is a version of the scene: CSM: "Congratulations on your survival. Your life is worthless now, I hope you know that." Mulder: "And yours?" CSM (derisive): "You think you've stopped it. What I've worked for fifty years to create. You haven't stopped it. You can't stop it." (takes a drag) "You're just one man." Mulder: "You're wrong."
  
  
• Mulder running down the street after escaping from the hospital. Most of this was cut from the theatrical release, and it wasn't edited back into the video. [From Trailers A and C]
• Mulder and Scully trying to start the car after the corn chase, with the helicopters returning. [From Trailer A]
• The Well-Manicured Man's explanation about Samantha and the clones. This is during the car scene. This scene was edited into the video.
• This is from someone who viewed an early preview screening in the middle of season 5 (about the "kiss"): "Later, the two remember it differently. Scully thinks it was just a dream while Mulder believes it is a memory flashback that has been 'implanted' into them for malicious purposes."

Minor Scenes

• A front shot of WMM looking out his window when his grandson gets hurt. Only a shot from inside his house is shown. [From Screensaver]
• Mulder and Scully's car screeching to a halt after the building explosion, with sparks going everywhere. Only the last part of this is shown. [From Trailer A]
• Mulder's head going forward in the car during the explosion. This close-up was cut. [From Trailer A]
• The camera flying up over the mountains in Antarctica. [From Trailer A]
• Kurtzweil coming to a halt with WMM's headlights in his face. The only part of this shot actually shown has Kurtzweil already still. [From Trailer A]
• Mulder's bar speech had this: "...the fix is in and the government's hip to the truth and part of the conspiracy..." changed to this: "...the fix is in and the sky's falling...." [From Screensaver]
• There was a scene in the hospital where Mulder's butt showed from behind his gown. This was cut at the last second.
• The scene where Kurtzweil is talking to Mulder while he's hailing a cab has this cut from Kurtzweil's dialogue: "The truth is something you've never guessed. Never have predicted." [From Trailer B]
• The video seems to have some added footage of the alien in the opening scene.
• The shot of Mulder and Scully walking to the bee domes (showing both of them and the domes in the same shot) from the bluff where their car is seems to have been cut short. [From Trailer C]
• The shot of the men in hazmat suits coming out of the helicopter in North Texas was also cut so that you can't see them opening the door from that shot. [From Trailers A and C]
• The wide shot of the men in hazmat suits running back to the helicopter carrying Stevie in the cryobubble with a fireman running in front of them was cut. A more close-up shot was actually shown. [From Poster E]
• When Mulder is reciting the time left on the bomb, he originally said "13:59, 13:58, 13:57, 13:56...." That was cut, so in the movie he starts out at 13:56. [From Screensaver]
• Apparently a few takes of the scene where Mulder and Scully are running out of the building featured a motorcycle zooming by in front of them.
• When Mulder and Scully are at the train tracks outside of their car, this was cut out right before the train comes: MULDER: "Been where?" SCULLY: "Pounding down some dirt road in the middle of the night. Chasing some elusive truth on a dim hope, only to find myself standing right where I am right now: at another dead end--"
• There is a high shot looking down at Stevie holding the skull that was cut out. [From Trailer A]
• Scully in some scene in only a white tank-top. [From Making of Book]

Scenes from the Script Never Filmed

• Chris Carter originally wanted a car chase scene after Mulder escapes from the hospital to be filmed.
• Skinner has extra lines in the hospital scene describing how agents broke into Michaud's home.
• At the end, the script has CSM watching Mulder and Scully from his car. This was changed to him on a hill, and it was then cut. [See above for more info on original ending.]
• After the Mulder-Kurtzweil alley scene, Mulder gives him his cell phone and says, "No calling Hawaii." This ties in with Mulder picking up another cell phone walking out of the hospital (this scene is shown in the movie). Obviously he's calling Kurtzweil to tell him to meet him at the bar.
• Mulder originally said "I know the name. Why?" instead of "Am I supposed to know that name?" when Kurtzweil introduces himself. Quite a difference. Then, Kurtzweil says (right after talking about Mulder's father and the Department of State), "I never believed in the Project." Then "Oh, come on. Don't pretend you don't know about the Project. Your father died for it. Your sister was taken because of it."
• When the primitive man kills the alien, its blood pools but does not flow toward the man. Instead, it travels into a fissure in the cave floor. Not to worry though, the man was splattered with enough black blood during the fight, which does travel up his body in the worm-like manner we know so well.
• Scully's speech: "I left behind a career in medicine because I thought I might make a difference at the FBI. When they recruited me they told me women made up nine percent of the Bureau. I felt that was not an impediment, but an opportunity to distinguish myself. But it hasn't turned out that way."
• The FBI building exterior shots were supposed to feature the entire D.C. skyline, and then a tighter shot from above. A totally different angle is in the movie.
• Right after Mulder's bar speech: BARMAID: "Why don't you go home to the old lady--" MULDER: "Sorry. Don't have one."
• CSM suggests to Bronschweig that a "small roadside memorial" be built for the firemen.
• On page 51 of the script, there's something strange: "50 OMITTED AND 51 OMITTED." On page 124: "144 OMITTED." Page 127: "159 OMITTED THRU 161." More cut scenes?
• When Mulder and Scully are talking to the 3 boys: 2ND BOY: "Cause FBI agents wear like suits and goofy ties. And dresses like my mom wears to church. Like on that one show." MULDER: "Maybe you've been watching too much TV."
• When Mulder and Scully go chasing the tanker trucks, right before the train goes by, they see a sign: "SOME HAVE TRIED, SOME HAVE DIED. TURN BACK--NO TRESPASSING."
• WMM has more dialogue when he confronts Kurtzweil and when Mulder goes up to him.
• The script describes the firemen seeing the boy and the black oil. None of this is shown.
• In the spaceship, Mulder squirts out some of the vaccine, and when it hits the ground it fizzes and the ship shakes.
• In the spaceship: SCULLY: "Where are we?" MULDER: "You got me. But I think I know what they did with Jimmy Hoffa."
• In the final meeting with Cassidy, at the very end: CASSIDY: "Mr. Skinner...? Please ask Agent Scully to come back to this hearing. We're not quite finished."
• Rob Bowman had a shot planned out for when Mulder and Scully are at the playground. He wanted to have them standing in the grass, with the camera showing the playground from a long distance and all of the desert surrounding it.
• Scully: "Is that before or after you got the idea to come here?" Mulder looks at her curiously. "What are you implying, Scully?" Scully (frowning): "I thought that you may have gotten drunk and decided to come here to talk me out of quitting." Mulder: "Is that what you'd like me to do?" Scully hesitates. Long enough to indicate her own wavering heart. "Go home, Mulder. It's late."
• When Dr. Bronschweig shows the Cigarette-Smoking Man the infected fireman, the script notes that the movement of the alien is in the fireman's skull, not his chest as in the movie. A bit later, the alien has grown into the Fireman's neck and chest.
• In the alley Kurtzweil mentions that he's had his license taken away in three states. Mulder also now remembers where he's heard Kurtzweil's name before. "You mean that apocalyptic trash you write? I knew your name was familiar. I just didn't know why." Kurtzweil: "You know my work?" Mulder (pointedly): "Dr. Kurtzweil, I'm not interested in bigoted ideas about race or genocide. I don't believe in the Elders of Zion, the Knights of Templar, the Bilderburg Group, or in a one-world Jew-run government--" Kurtzweil: "I don't either, but it sure sells books."
• Some further cut dialog on what Scully learned about the virus: "And unlike the AIDS virus or any other aggressive strain, it survives aggressive strain. It survives very nicely outside the body."
• First Elder on Kurtzweil: "We've allowed this man his freedom. His books have actually helped us to facilitate plausible denial. Has he outlived his usefulness to us?"

Sounds Taken Out

• Stevie's scream when he falls into the cave. [From Trailer B]
• Mulder's scream when he falls down the ladder thing in the spaceship. In the movie he says "Shit!" instead. [From Trailer C]
• A lot of sound effects from Trailer A and some of the TV spots were just added for the ads but never included in the film.
• Also, most of the music and atmospheric sounds in the trailers and TV spots were written exclusively for them and didn't appear in the movie. (The main song from the trailers and TV spots is actually from the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack #2.)

The Samantha explanation and other small scenes were edited back into the video, LaserDisc, Divx, and pay-per-view releases. (The widescreen pay-per-view version does NOT have the Samantha scene in it.) They also have interviews with Chris Carter and Gillian Anderson, and trailers A and C (with the release dates edited out) are before the movie.

All of the video's extra scenes WILL be edited back into the DVD, but the CSM ending and the other cut scenes will NOT be edited back into it. It will have a secondary audio track with running commentary from Chris Carter and Rob Bowman. All of the other video extras will be included as well.

Foreign Versions: The movie was dubbed in German with English subtitles at the European premiere in Berlin on July 24, 1998. The only actor who dubbed his own voice in German was Armin Mueller-Stahl!

Errors: (1) The police in Kurtzweil's apartment are wearing Arlington uniforms, but he lives in Dupont Circle. (2) Mulder's tie mysteriously disappears while entering the dome, then reappears right afterward. (3) The skyline of Los Angeles is seen on a Dallas rooftop. (4) Since it was summer in the northern hemisphere, it had to be winter in Antarctica (60-80 below zero and dark). In contrast, it was light and Mulder's breath could not be seen.

Sightings: 1013: None, unless you count Scully's cell phone number: 555-0113. 1121: This is the time written on the screen at the FBI field office, Dallas, Texas. Also it is on the front of one of the white domes in Antarctica. X: He could be one of the men walking behind Scully at the end when she is walking toward Mulder. Krycek: Not really, but how else do you explain the rat that runs in front of Mulder after he walks away from WMM's car? Other: "LA365" is on the license plate of WMM's car. It signifies the move to L.A., and how many days a year the show will be filmed there! Jason Beghe, rumored to be in the movie, can be spotted as the first agent to enter the vending room where Mulder is. He is one of David Duchovny's best friends. Also, "Cooper" is on the back of the ambulance, after William Cooper, author of Behold a Pale Horse. Apparently some of Kurtzweil's speech about a "quiet weapon for a silent war" and FEMA were taken from this book. Not to mention the reference to the Star Wars planet Tatooine, named after Foum Tataouine, Tunisia, the last location of the movie. And, Mulder is seen pissing on an ID4 poster in the alley. Also, the number 0619, signifying the date of the movie's release, June 19, is seen on another one of the white domes in Antarctica. 619 is seen on the door of the Office of Professional Review. Finally, the newspaper article Mulder reads at the end (titled "Fatal Hanta Virus Outbreak in Northern Texas Reported Contained") was written by reporter Howard Dimsdale. The real Howard Dimsdale taught X-Files writers Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban at the American Film Institute, and was "blacklisted" during the McCarthy era. And how about some "hearings"? Mulder refers to the song "One" (remade by Filter on the soundtrack) when the bartender says "It looks like 86 is your lucky number." He replies, "One is the loneliest number." In the same bar scene, "Crystal Ship" by X is playing in the background. That song is also on the soundtrack.

Miscellaneous Info:

In the scene where Scully collapses in Mulder's hallway due to that nasty bee, she just happens to lie down on honeycomb-patterned linoleum.

Former LAPD bomb squad officer Herb Williams and former FBI agent Will Heaton acted as advisors for the bomb sequence--and appeared in the movie as agents in a scene with Scully.

Stevie is named after one of Carter's boyhood friends. Carter says that he and the real Stevie used to dig holes a lot, just like in the movie.

Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil is also based on a real person, a doctor who supposedly died under suspicious circumstances.

Conrad Strughold was named for the real Strughold, a Nazi scientist who conducted experiments on prisoners during World War II. The U.S. government secretly brought Strughold over after the war to work on the space program. It is also worth mentioning that in season 3's "Paper Clip," Mulder & Scully discover "lots and lots of files" at the Strughold Mining Company.

Some of the bees used to film the interior dome scenes actually went loose in the Fox lot (only the exterior scenes were shot on location), wreaking some havoc with crew members.

Funding and Location Info [top]

Locations: North Texas, 35,000 B.C.; Blackwood, Texas; Federal Building, Dallas, Texas; FBI Headquarters, J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington, D.C.; Casey's Bar, Southeast Washington, D.C.; Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda (Montgomery County), Maryland; Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.; Forensics Laboratory, FBI Field Office, Dallas, Texas; County of Somerset, England; London, England; National Airport, Washington, D.C.; Intensive Care Unit, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; Wilkes Land (Pole of Inaccessibility), Antarctica; FBI Office of Professional Review, J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington, D.C.; Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C., Near FBI Headquarters; Foum Tataouine, Tunisia.

Filming Locations: California City, California; London, England; Bakersfield, California (corn field); Long Beach, California; Los Angeles, California; North Vancouver, British Columbia; Vancouver, British Columbia; Toms River, New Jersey; Dallas, Texas; Pleasantville, New Jersey; Glamis, California (sand dune); Whistler, British Columbia; Somerset, England; Santa Clarita, California; UNOCAL Building, Los Angeles, California (explosion, interiors); St. Mary's Hospital, Long Beach, California; Casey's Bar, Los Angeles, California (Casey's Bar in D.C.); Mira Monte Apartments, Los Angeles, California (Kurtzweil's apartment interior); Soledad Canyon, California (train and corn closeups); Grapevine, Texas; Canyon Country, California.

Can anyone confirm, deny, or add anything to the above six lists?

Budgets:

Production: $66 million
Worldwide Advertising: $60 million

U.S. Gross:

June 21 (Opening Weekend): $30.138 million (2,629 screens)
June 28: $13.282 million (2,650 screens)
July 5: $6.253 million (2,602 screens)
July 12: $3.871 million (1,909 screens)
July 19: $3.712 million
July 26: $2.065 million
August 2: $876,000
August 9: $531,000
August 16: $515,000
August 23: $518,000
August 30: $354,000
September 13: $484,000
September 20: $136,000
September 27: $86,000
October 4: $43,000
October 11: $23,000
June 19-February 8: $83,898,313

U.K. Gross:

August 23 (Opening Weekend): £2.506 million (419 screens)
August 30: £1.192 million (427 screens)
September 6: £772,807 (414 screens)
September 13: £421,644 (312 screens)
September 20: £210,426 (229 screens)
September 27: £108,426 (144 screens)
August 23-September 27: £8.28 million ($14 million)

International (Non-U.S.) Gross:

August 9: $14 million
August 16: $9.4 million
August 23: $13.5 million
October 11: $34.6 million
October 18: $2.5 million
August 9-January 19: $109.9 million

Total German Gross: $15.4 million
Total French Gross: $11 million
Total Spanish Gross: $5.9 million
Total Japanese Gross: $5.6 million

Total Worldwide Gross: $193.8 million; $185 million (official)

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Production Dates:

Shooting: June 9, 1997-October 1997
Production: June 16, 1997-June 19, 1998

Technical Info: Panavision cameras and lenses, 35-mm film negative format, Super 35 cinematographic process, 35-mm anamorphic printed film format, 2.35:1 aspect ratio, DeLuxe Color.

Running Time: 2 hours, 1 minute in USA; 1 hour, 58 1/2 minutes in USA pay-per-view; 2 hours, 2 minutes in U.K., Australia, and Norway

Sound System: Dolby Digital

Ratings: PG-13 (U.S.), 15 (U.K.), U (France), IIA (Hong Kong), M/12 (Portugal), 11 (Sweden), 15 (Norway), M (Australia), K-16 (Finland), 12 (Germany), AA (Canada), and PG (Singapore)