‘X-Files’ film title revealed

‘X-Files’ film title revealed

LOS ANGELES — The truth is finally out there about the new “X-Files” movie title. The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” Chris Carter, the series’ creator and the movie’s director and co-writer, told The Associated Press.

The title is a familiar phrase for fans of the series that starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents chasing after aliens and supernatural happenings.

“I Want to Believe” was the slogan on a poster Duchovny’s UFO-obsessed agent Fox Mulder had hanging in the cluttered basement office where he and Anderson’s Dana Scully worked.

Due in theaters July 25, the movie will not deal with aliens or the intricate mythology about interaction between humans and extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, Carter said. Instead, it casts Mulder and Scully into a stand-alone, earth-bound story aimed at both serious “X-Files” fans and newcomers, he said.

‘Sex’ star battled cancer

NEW YORK — Cynthia Nixon, 42, has joined forces with the breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure and is going public with her own battle with breast cancer.

Nixon, who is reprising her role as Miranda in HBO’s “Sex and the City” in an upcoming movie, had a lumpectomy two years ago and then underwent six and a half weeks of radiation. The Dallas-based Komen foundation is known for its Race for the Cure events. Nixon will serve as an ambassador for the organization.

Sambora on hot seat

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Police are asking the district attorney to file a misdemeanor child endangerment charge against Richie Sambora, who had two children in his car when he was arrested for investigation of drunken driving last month. Authorities haven’t released the names of a woman and two girls who were passengers in Sambora’s car when the Bon Jovi guitarist was stopped March 25. Sambora is scheduled to be arraigned May 7.

Today’s birthdays

Composer-musician Jan Hammer is 60. Singer Maynard James Keenan of Tool is 44. Singer Liz Phair is 41. Rapper-actor Redman is 38. Singer Victoria Beckham of the Spice Girls is 34. Actress Dee Dee Davis (“The Bernie Mac Show”) is 12.