Could there still be a 3rd X Files movie...

[Jax]

(just thought, which room should this be in, TV or SCI FI ?)

I say that out of the need that I so want to see the whole 2012 thing, which Carter said he would do should FOX greenlight a 2nd sequel. I also say this after reading the worldwide numbers, which has helped the movie turn a profit. A little side note, I had to use several other websites to find the numbers cause Box Office Mojo has been pretty crap at updating their international numbers lately (not just for X files)...

so here is what I found...

Production Budget - $35,000,000

Total US Gross - $20,740,598
International Gross - $39,696,542
Worldwide Gross - $60,437,140

Am sure we will see that add at least a bit more before it reaches the end of its world tour. Even with Ad's pretty sure we have some kind of profit there and more to come because I remember reading X Files having a pretty small AD budget and don't we know it, so bad FOX.

FOX has struggled all year with movies and at least X Files 2 has the excuses of the whole TDK and summer release, again bad FOX. So with the DVD numbers still to come in the future and I feel X Files 2 will probably do well in that area and the fact that any 3rd movie will have the whole alien invasion thing, which will bring in more people should it get a better non summer release date...

Could we still get that 3rd and final movie to wrap up the X Files plot, which began all the way with the pilot about the whole frickin Truth is out there.

Please say yes

 

[Pingfah]

I think it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they will do something. An inevitably high budget theatrical film dealing with a full scale alien invasion though is doubtful.

 

[Harvey]

I think it's still moderately possible that some kind of follow-up will happen, but as Pingfah said, it's doubtful that said follow-up will take the form of a highly-budgeted theatrical film.

I'd put my money on either a straight to DVD release or some kind of television product, be it a TV movie, a TV miniseries, or an abbreviated TV season of some sort.

But I want it to happen, so I'm not the best judge.

 

[Trippy]

I "want to believe" () that we'll get that 2012 closure in a movie...it needs that kind of scope, but I'll settle for any of the other options too

 

[Bad Bishop]

(just thought, which room should this be in, TV or SCI FI ?)

You don't remember where The X-Files is usually discussed?

If 20th Century Fox doesn't greenlight another theatrical film, then they aren't taking any responsibility for the failure of I Want To Believe. Maybe there's a chance for a multipart TV movie like The Andromeda Strain.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Well, they made all their money back, but the profit was slim, basically only being what they put into the picture in the first place. The ultimate deciding factor on a 3rd movie -- which I hope they DON'T make, since this was a good note to go on -- willl be the DVD sales.

 

[Harvey]

Well, they made all their money back, but the profit was slim, basically only being what they put into the picture in the first place. The ultimate deciding factor on a 3rd movie -- which I hope they DON'T make, since this was a good note to go on -- willl be the DVD sales.

You're not interested in resolution to the 2012 storyline? I did like how this ended for Mulder and Scully, but the alien mythology built the show. And it's been left dangling in a painful way.

 

[Jax]

(just thought, which room should this be in, TV or SCI FI ?)

You don't remember where The X-Files is usually discussed?

2nd smart ass today

Yes I just couldn't be arsed to re-make the thread after I realised I put it in the TV media forum but I guess it still Q/F's for this forum too.

 

[bigdaddy]

Nope, too late.

2012 is coming faster than most want to think and they really should get a move on with it.

I hope there is a 2012 movie and the aliens invade and we all die!

 

[Jax]

Nope, too late.

2012 is coming faster than most want to think and they really should get a move on with it.

I hope there is a 2012 movie and the aliens invade and we all die!

Speak for yourself, I plan to live forever

 

[Captain Craig]

Yeah its still possible. As noted DVD sales will be a factor.
Hollywood seems to be more forgiving these days even if they are inconsistent with it.
Blade got sequels with a modest success.
Hellboy got a sequel.
Chronicles of Riddick is now being discussed as getting sequels.
Golden Compass director still insists that the WW #'s warrant followups.

We still keep getting these horrid Date/Epic/Disaster spoof films.

Therefore X-Files has done by comparison at least as well when all is done at the domestic and worldwide box office + DVDs.

 

[Ethros]

DVD is where the real money is made, and has been that way for years now. So indeed it may not have been a massive hit, but it will easily make back its losses and then some

 

[tharpdevenport]

Well, they made all their money back, but the profit was slim, basically only being what they put into the picture in the first place. The ultimate deciding factor on a 3rd movie -- which I hope they DON'T make, since this was a good note to go on -- willl be the DVD sales.

You're not interested in resolution to the 2012 storyline? I did like how this ended for Mulder and Scully, but the alien mythology built the show. And it's been left dangling in a painful way.

No, I am not. They went out on an intelligent, nicely done plot. Dont' big, self convoluted shabaz of aliens and genvernment conspiracies is not how I want to remember Mulder & Scully.

Never resolved the Borg or bad relations with the Romulans.

 

[Mr Light]

Much as I'd like to see the alien invasion finally happen, after this movie's gross they'll be doing it on a 20 million budget.

 

[doubleohfive]

Well, they made all their money back, but the profit was slim, basically only being what they put into the picture in the first place. The ultimate deciding factor on a 3rd movie -- which I hope they DON'T make, since this was a good note to go on -- willl be the DVD sales.

You're not interested in resolution to the 2012 storyline? I did like how this ended for Mulder and Scully, but the alien mythology built the show. And it's been left dangling in a painful way.

No, I am not. They went out on an intelligent, nicely done plot.

We must have seen different movies because that description does not apply in any way, shape, or form to I Want To Believe.

Dont' big, self convoluted shabaz of aliens and genvernment conspiracies is not how I want to remember Mulder & Scully.

But that's the story point that made the show. I for one would like to see a return/resolution to the "mythology."

 

[tharpdevenport]

Going out on a big alien conspiracy plot no one really cares about anymore, is like going out the way ST:TNG cast did in "Nemesis" -- a pointles sstupid way that makes you hate them.


A prime example, for me, is the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"; the end of S5 is how the show should have ended, not they way it did.

 

[Jax]

Going out on a big alien conspiracy plot no one really cares about anymore, is like going out the way ST:TNG cast did in "Nemesis" -- a pointles sstupid way that makes you hate them.


A prime example, for me, is the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"; the end of S5 is how the show should have ended, not they way it did.

Funny because Joss Whedon actually had re-wrote the final episodes of season 5 from his original idea due to it not being final season so the show would of ended differently if it had finished on 5.

 

[Starbreaker]

DVD sales are going to be through the roof. I even imagine a better cut of the film will be released at some point in time. There's probably going to be enough demand for a big mytharc story... or at least something with more supernatural elements.