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Chris Carter, maker of the hit series “The X-Files” sued 20th Century Fox, accusing the studio of “screwing him out of millions of dollars in residuals related to the show’s profitable syndication agreement”.

“Fox’s TV production arm breached a 1998 contract with Carter (…) because the financial terms turned out to be ‘too favorable’ to the creator at the expense of the studio.”

Fox licensed X-Files reruns to an in-house network, which cheated Carter out of a generous amount of money if the episodes were put up on the open market. A similar lawsuit was brought against Fox by David Duchovny, who played Fox Mulder in the series, a while ago which coincidentally involved the same network.

Read all about it here.

It’s a fact that Tim Robbins wants to make a new adaptation of the 1948 George Orwell’s novel “1984″, which predicted a dark dystopian future in which a totalitarian government watches its subjects relentlessly. Robbins says he already has a screenplay and is now moving to the part of putting it together.

“Say the name 1984 to anybody and chances are they’ll think of three things: Big Brother, Room 101 and a third concept that hasn’t yet been made into a crappy TV show (although that’s surely only a matter of time), The Thought Police, who monitor the thoughts of potential subversives in the population.”

You can read the full article, courtesy of Empire, here.

According to SciFi.com, it has been given green light to begin the production of the new supernatural miniseries “Nine Lives”, which will have Steven Spielberg as executive producer and Les Bohem as screenwriter. The same team behind the Emmy-winning 2003 miniseries Taken.

Bohem will write all 12 hours of Nine Lives, which will focus on several characters who discover a way to reunite with dead loved ones in the afterlife through near-death experiences. But with each journey they bring an unknown evil closer.

The series are scheduled for 2007, so we’ll have to wait a bit.

Entertainment Weekly talked a while ago with Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine on the X-Men movies. Among the main subjects regarding the upcoming X-Men 3 was the Wolverine spin-off that’s in the works.

Here’s a bit:

“There’s a lot of things we really tried to get in 1 and 2 which — I don’t mean to be blunt — were just real expensive and we couldn’t get them in until 1 and 2 were so successful. So there’s some sequences there that the fans — if you go to that midnight screening on the first night, they’ll just be going ballistic. There’s some specific choreography, famous fighting moves, that we use in this movie that we haven’t been able to do before.”

Click here to read the complete article.

I’ll let the trailer speak for itself. Click on the picture below.

If you’re someone that is visiting Kawaii since the old pink one, you noticed I have watched closely for any Ultraviolet updates, the new Kurt Wimmer film, featuring Milla Jovovich. And during this week, the trailer was released and I must say I’m still looking forward to see it, although I think the trailer shows “too much”.

Anyway, click the picture to see the trailer.