[excerpt] Why take a television show from TV to a Theatrical Environment - if you're just going to tell a story that could have easily fit within the confines of at Television Budgeted Universe?
Did I enjoy the film? Yes, but is it worth putting in a theater? Not really. I'm not sure where the problem lies... is it Chris Carter just holding back and being stuck in the serialized reality of his Television Existence - or is it the numb-nutted executives at Fox forcing Chris to make a film within a narrow confine?
I don't know.
The film's budget was a scant $30 million - Which is many times the budget of an episode of THE X-FILES television series. I'm sure inflated budgets to all key personnel devours large chunks - followed by the more expensive post process - but seriously - it this all that they could come up with?
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USA TODAY [excerpt], "That won't be the case, however, with The X-Files: I Want to Believe (No. 4), which disappointed big time with a mere $10.2 mil debut. That's way down from the $30.1 mil that its predecessor, the 1998 X-Files movie, generated on its first weekend. Put simply, this TV adaptation sequel just generated no heat at the box office: Besides that small gross, it received a bad CinemaScore grade of C from a crowd that was a whopping 80 percent over age 25. Bye bye, X-Files."
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