Sorting through all the email we received today, our friends over at XFilesNews turned us on to three brand new images from the untitled X-Files movie hitting theaters this summer. No, it's not a direct sequel to the film that came out 10 years ago -- apparently, this one is a stand alone story that -- knowing Mulder and Scully -- has to do with something weird, creepy and other-worldly. See, folks have been keeping a real tight lid on the storyline for this flick, and it seems all we get are images of people on ice, digging, screaming, running -- what have you. BUT, these new photos might reveal a little more. Either that, or someone is trying to have a little fun with us.

(We're about to take a closer look at one of these images, so spoilers might follow ...)

Okay, so see this image above of Mulder (David Duchovny) standing up, looking at something, someone with a bunch of papers and crap hung up behind him. Well, click on the photo in the gallery below to see a larger version. NOW look at the title of the newspaper article in the background. What does it say? "FBI Arrests Modern Day Frankenstein Doctor." Could this new film have something to do with ... Frankenstein!!! Dun Dun Dun. I'm not as up on my X-Files knowledge as some of you are, so discuss away ...

The X-Files arrives in theaters on July 25.

It's taken a bit of time for the trades to catch up to the long-awaited X-Files sequel, currently being referred to as X-Files 2, but now that they have a flurry of information has hit the net. Variety just announced that 20th Century Fox has set a release date of July 25th, 2008 (that's this summer people!!) for the first X-Files flick in ten years. Unfortunately, that's all we know right now, and a plot synopsis was not released, but they did offer up the following: "Studio is keeping the film's logline under wraps, but stressed the pic is a stand-alone story and supernatural thriller that takes the complicated relationship between Mulder and Scully in new directions."

Hmm, so they're taking their complicated relationship in new directions, huh? Perhaps the two will get married and have a child that turns out to be ... a Predalien?! Could it be? Maybe? As of right now, the only other films opening on that same weekend are the Will Ferell/John C. Reilly comedy Step Brothers, and yet another Ice Cube family flick. What's up with Cube and the family flicks, anyway? He was really doing well with the badass roles (although XXX: They Should've Stopped at Diesel didn't exactly live up to the hype it didn't receive); I wish he'd go back to kicking butt. Or, if not that, then give us another another another Friday. All that being said, X-Files 2 should do fairly well against its competition, but they'll need to WOW us a bit when it comes time for trailers. A stop at NY ComicCon this spring wouldn't hurt either.

Random Note: For some reason I kept writing X-Men, and not X-Files, but caught the mistake right before I pushed this sucker live. That would've been a funny one, huh? Oh, the comments ...

A second The X Files movie has been discussed for a long, long time; at this point, it's just one of those ever-present rumors that doesn't actually mean anything anymore. But wait - all hope is not lost! According to Gillian Anderson, though the whole sequel thing has "become a bit messy" (it's to do with "rights issues," apparently), she, co-star David Duchovny, and creator/writer Chris Carter "are determined to do it." Hmm. Well, for X-Philes I'm sure that's reassuring  - but how far can determination can get you when you don't have the necessary rights to get the movie made? Plus, as Anderson points out, at some point people are just not going to give a crap. No really - I know it's hard to believe that the day will come, but when we have flying cars, Mulder and Scully will just not be an issue. Not only that, but even if people still care, watching the two of them sitting in an old folks home, talking aliens, just won't be the same. So they best get on it, dammit.