The X-Files series closed shop back in 2002, but don’t expect the new movie I Want to Believe, to pick up where the show left
off. “We don’t act like the six years didn’t happen,” confirms David Duchovny, who adds playfully, “which is great for me physically.”

It turns out the actor, who portrays smoldering Special Agent Fox Mulder in the franchise, never wanted to give up the character he played for nine seasons and in the 1998 film by the same name.

“I did have this hope that I would be able to play Mulder until I died in a way, until we died at the same time” the 47-year-old tells Hollywood.com. “By that I just mean that we got older and I didn’t have to adjust the guy and keep playing him as young as I was when I first started playing him, which was 15 years ago. So for me it is very fulfilling to at least do it in this incarnation, and whether or not I get to do it again I don’t know, but we don’t try to keep it the same.”

As for his costar Gillian Anderson, “she’s 15 years older too,” he jests.

On a more serious note, Duchovny says he kept in touch with his onscreen FBI partner via email after the TV show wrapped and she moved to England.

“We have this very weird close bond,” he explains. “When you work that much with somebody and go through the kind of insane life changes that we both went through at the same time ? only having each other as standards. We’ll always have some kind of bond.”

The new film, due in theaters July 25, re-teams agents Mulder and Dana Scully (Anderson) for a thrill ride reminiscent of the “monster-of-the-week” episodes from the show’s earliest seasons.

David Duchovny and his wife Tea Leoni are moving to New York.

The ‘X Files’ star and the actress have put their house in Malibu, California, on the market and are said to be looking to move to Manhattan before their children – nine-year-old Madelaine and six-year-old Kyd – return to school later this
year.

The couple reportedly believe there are better schools in New York than in Malibu.

David and Tea’s 6,578 sq ft Malibu property – which has an asking price of $12 million – features ocean-views, five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a gym, two swimming pools and a three-car garage.

The new owner will also receive membership in the La Costa Beach Club.

David and Tea aren’t the only celebrities who have recently decided to relocate to New York.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are planning to move there with their two-year-old daughter Suri while Katie stars
in a Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’.

We’re all amped up for the new X-FILES flick over here at Arrow in the Head, and why not? Most of us grew up following the spooky adventures of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, and I’m sure the same goes for many of you. And while I know some people are bummed that this movie tosses out the show’s infamous “mythology” storyline, I’m psyched to see Chris Carter and co. take a stab at a feature-film version of their “monster of the week” episodes – which I always loved.

It would seem there’s no reason to anticipate this new film being the last, either… David Duchovny, in an interview with Wized Magazine, had the following to say when asked if we can expect a continuing series of flicks from him and the gang: “It’s a serial show by its nature. The frame and the characters throw off an infinite number of stories and situations, it’s a classic, archetypal relationship, with a believer and a nonbeliever, with this kind of unrequited love in the middle of it, and it all works. And that can work forever as long as your stories are good.”

Works for me. When I saw Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz speak at NY Comic Con, they indicated, subtly, that they were very open to telling more tales. Add to that the fact that Carter apparently told Annabeth Gish – Agent Reyes in the last couple seasons of the show – that if this film did well, she’d be in the next one, and it’s looking like Scully and Mulder are here to stay! (Every couple of years, that is.)

X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE opens on July 25.

Granted, David Duchovny‘s character on Showtime‘s bawdy comedy “Californication” drinks way too much, does copious amounts of drugs and has no off switch when it comes to his libido or his acerbic tongue. Still, Duchovny sees him as basically a good guy.

“He’s very complicated, and it’s not easy to pass judgment on a man like that,” Duchovny says.

A writer who has seen his critically acclaimed novel turned into a pedestrian Hollywood movie, Hank is still reeling from his breakup with Karen, his longtime love. Once a devoted and faithful partner, their separation sent him into a
tailspin of drug-fueled debauchery.

“One of the aspects of the character that I really enjoyed was that he was not this kind of playboy before he and Karen split up. That’s not something that drove them apart,” he explains. “That’s something that he’s fallen into in his despair.”

X-Files star Gillian Anderson is expecting her second child with boyfriend Mark Griffiths, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The couple have a son, Oscar, who was born in November 2006. Anderson also has a 13-year-old daughter, Piper, from a previous marriage.

Next up, Anderson will reprise her role as Dana Scully in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, a new movie due out July 25.