The X-Files: I Want to Believe was not exactly a smashing success at the box office.

Still, writer/producer Frank Spotnitz says he has hope for a third installment in this franchise. He explained why to MovieWeb:

The studio has not said yes or no. I think the box office, unfortunately, we got creamed in the theaters by The Dark Knight. I don't think anybody could've anticipated that was going to be such a huge, historic phenomenon. To be a dark scary movie coming out the week after The Dark Knight was not the best timing. I think there's life in the franchise still.

I think these are great characters. There's a date that looms very important in X-Files mythology, which is December 2012. I think after the DVD comes out, the studio will decide whether they want to roll the dice on another X-Files feature.

It's time to retire, Mulder and Scully.

Sorry, fans of The X-Files. But the latest film version of the iconic television series isn't receiving rave reviews.

Here are a look at some of the latest...

- For the uninitiated, The X Files: I Want to Believe may seem as musty and forbidding as one of those dank secrets that Mulder and Scully were forever digging up from some backyard, or fetid swamp, or their own aching hearts... -- Time Magazine

- Director/franchise creator Chris Carter gives devoted fans plenty of small moments to swoon over, but the appeal should be limited beyond those fervent loyalists... -- Variety

- A movie that benefits from -- but doesn't make very good use of -- the history and the chemistry between its stars, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson... -- The Orlando Sentinel

- The plot is mundane and seems pieced together from bits from (better) episodes of this now defunct TV show... -- Sci-Fi Movie Page

The X-Files movie trailer we currently have posted on the site isn't the clearest video in the world.

Here's a look at the latest TV spot for The X-Files: I Want to Believe, though. Enjoy..

As The X-Files: I Want to Believe gets closer to its release date, the film's two stars are making the publicity rounds.

Earlier this week, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson spoke with Dark Horizons about getting back into the roles they made so famous.

Question: Can you talk about getting back into these characters after a five or six year period?

Duchovny: Well, I had two weeks before Christmas of basically running around and chasing Callum Rennie who plays the running bad guy that I chase all over the place. That took a good two full weeks of running even though I know it's only about ten seconds in the movie and then Gillian and I started working on it after Christmas break.

The first two weeks I felt a little awkward and I didn't really feel like I wanted to do longer scenes. I was just fine running around. Then as soon as Gillian and I started working and it was Mulder and Scully, then I kind of remembered what it was all about and that relationship kind of anchored my performance just as I think the relationship anchors this film.

Mulder and Scully are back in The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

Anderson: I had a similar experience. This feels so weird. Summertime. I didn't have all the running around that David had to do, but I did have my own unfortunate beginning which was starting with one of the most difficult scenes for Scully in the film where it's later on in the script and she goes through a range of emotions in confronting Billy Connolly's character. I just had a really hard time for those first couple of days.

I had a really hard time just finding her, finding her voice. I think I must've gone through ten other characters in the process of trying to get to her when I had assumed that I would be able to show up on the first day and it would just be there. It wasn't until I think day three when we got to work together, not just necessarily in a familiar environment which it really wasn't, but in the environment of each other and the relationship and that it kind of felt natural and familiar and I felt like I'd landed this time.

For Andres Dominguez, there's no business like snow business.

The special effects guru - who has worked on movies such as Seven Years in Tibet, Fantastic Four and X-Men: The Last Stand - recently spoke to The Los Angeles Times about his work on The X-Files: I Want to Believe:

Winter wonderland: While shooting on location in downtown Vancouver, Dominguez says his initial instruction was to make the set look "like Alaska: completely covered." But the city doesn't get a lot of snowfall, so budget restraints kept the shoot limited to melty snow drifts.

"We ended up with a look where it had snow on the sidewalks and the streets are kind of wet," he said.

Mulder makes his way through (fake) snow in The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

So, how does one even go about manufacturing snow?

"To make snow, you need lots of air and high-pressure water," Dominguez said, adding that ideal temperature conditions are "if the weather's below zero [Celsius] and low humidity. So when it was minus 10, the machine was running full on... If you do a flat area, you can probably put a layer of snow 4 inches high in five hours."

Here's the latest movie poster for The X-Files: I Want to Believe. This ad is mostly being shown in Great Britain and countries outside the United States.

TV Guide recently sat down with The X-Files creator Chris Carter to discuss The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

In the interview, Carter discussed fan interest in the franchise, as well as the future of it. Here are excerpts:

TVGuide.com: Fans have really been waiting for this movie, X-Files: I Want to Believe (in theaters July 25). Are you surprised that they’re still interested?

Chris Carter: Yes. I think the reason we made the movie was because we felt that enthusiasm from the fan base. That being said, I think for this movie to be as successful as Fox would like, we needed to make it a movie that would appeal beyond our fan base, to a broader base, and even to a group of people who didn't watch The X-Files before.

I would talk with college juniors, sophomores, freshmen — they were too young to see the show when it was on the air. It started 15 years ago. So, yeah, we thought about them when we came up with the story.

TVGuide.com: Could you imagine doing a new X-Files movie every couple of years or so?

Carter: That seems like a natural to me, but this movie has to be successful for there to be another one. I think every time you go out you need to get a home run. [Laughs] I don't think a double here will do it.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe comes out on July 25.

Check out a pair of new television spots for The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

Opening July 25, the film is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes:

Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully, the passionate, ferociously intelligent physician, remains inextricably tied to Mulder's pursuits.

Based on the following photo of Agents Mulder and Scully in The X-Files 2: I Want to Believe, these coworkers wanna do more than just believe.

They wanna get to first base!

Check out more photos from this summer movie at Shocktillyoudrop.com now!

X-Files director Chris Carter recently sat down with Entertainment Weekly to discuss the his new movie, specifically the difficulty in keeping spoilers a secret in this Internet age...

Entertainment Weekly: Just today an X-Files website announced that the film was about women being abducted. This was based on the apparent leaking of the synopsis of the film's novelization. Do you have any comment on that?

Chris Carter: Let me say that there have been a number of ''leaks'' during the making of the movie. And know that we went into this very early on knowing that, like any good enterprise, we would need to manage information via propaganda or imagery. And we considered all that as we moved forward.

Entertainment Weekly: Fair enough. Is it harder to keep things under wraps now than when you made the first movie 10 years ago?

Chris Carter: It was hard [with] the first movie. We printed the script on red paper so people couldn't Xerox it. But I think, the first week of filming, a synopsis of the script â€" a very detailed one â€" was in the National Enquirer. So it was difficult then, but it's even more difficult now with all the dedicated spoiler sites.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe comes out on July 25.