TV-Reviewed

You’re not going to hear us report on movies very often, but with the X-Files franchise being a television show (and one of our favorites), it’s hard to overlook the new movie’s debut at the movie theater.

Despite the fact that the new film was well advertised (high volume… trailers weren’t so good) on television and the Internet (I couldn’t visit a site in the past week without seeing an ad for it), the new X-Files film was a flop, bringing in a mere $10 million.

Here’s a breakdown for this weekend’s box office:

The Dark Knight - $75.6M
Step Brothers - $30M
Mamma Mia! - $17.9M
The X-Files: I Want to Believe - $10.2M
Journey to the Center of the Earth - $9.41M

According to IMDB, The X-Files: I Want to Believe cost roughly $30 million to make. That’s pretty tame compared to a lot of other films, and I have no doubt that it’ll make a profit eventually. DVD sales, alone, will bring in a lot of cash, especially if they release the film on regular DVD as well as BluRay.

I didn’t go see the movie, and by the looks of it, a lot of other X-Files fans didn’t either. Trailers are in a large part responsible for getting people to the theater and whomever was responsible for doing them for The X-Files should lose their job… they weren’t engaging in the least bit.

Still, I’m hoping this won’t doom the chances of another film. David Duchovny said he’s ready for another X-Files movie, but I don’t know if creator Chris Carter has another good story left in him.