The title is finally out there. The new X-Files movie will be called The X-Files: I Want to Believe. The announcement was made by the series' creator, Chris Carter -- who is also the movie's director -- in an interview Wednesday with the Associated Press. The title comes from a slogan that appeared on a poster hanging in the office of Fox Mulder, played by David Duchovny, in the TV series. "It's a natural title," Carter told AP. "It's a story that involves the difficulties in mediating faith and science. 'I Want to Believe.' It really does suggest Mulder's struggle with his faith." The film, which is scheduled to premiere on July 25, represents the return of a valuable franchise that ended its run on television six years ago. It is the second movie based on the series. The first was released in 1998.

Barry Levinson's What Just Happened? , a movie about a producer (played by Robert De Niro) whose film opens at the Cannes Film Festival, will in fact close the Cannes Film Festival this year. The star-studded inside-the-lot look at the movie business (Sean Penn and Bruce Willis play themselves) had been expected to shine at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Instead, it was panned by most critics. Patrick Z. McGavin, writing for the British trade publication Screen Daily, called it "a desultory Hollywood satire that fatally lacks the guts or verve to say anything vitally new or different." But Todd McCarthy in Daily Variety summed up: "A story very much by, about and for middle-aged men, and with the commercial limitations that implies, this intermittently amusing outing is graced by one of Robert De Niro's more engaging performances of recent vintage." The filmmakers discovered the "commercial limitations" at Sundance -- where they went home without a distribution deal.

Two more major film studios are risking the wrath of major retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy by making movies available on Apple's iTunes store on the same day the DVD versions hit the shelves in stores. Daily Variety reported today (Thursday) that Fox will offer Juno online next Tuesday, when it also releases the DVD and Blu-ray versions. The trade publication also reported that Paramount offered Beowulf for purchase online shortly after it hit the stores on Feb. 26 and that Jackass 2.5 -- a straight-to-video release -- actually hit the Web a week before it came out on DVD. In yet another move likely to perturb traditional retailers, Fox struck a deal with Starbucks, which began offering the Juno DVD in its coffeeshops last Tuesday. Meanwhile. Starbucks itself announced Wednesday that it had reached an agreement with Apple under which it will give away access cards allowing customers to download one "Pick of the Week" song or video from the iTunes store each week.

The number of DVDs that have remained at the top of the DVD sales charts for two consecutive weeks have been few and far between this year, but Alvin and the Chipmunks managed to stay there last week, despite competition from last year's award-winning sensation There Will Be Blood. In fact, Blood managed only to take third place on the Nielsen VideoScan chart behind The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. At the rental stores, Blood took the top spot with $8.5 million in rentals, according to Home Media Magazine. Alvin, which led on both charts last week, slipped to No. 2 on the rental chart with $7.2 million. The top-selling high-definition disc was I Am Legend.

Hazel Court, an actress who made a career out of appearances in horror flicks in the 1950s and '60s, died Tuesday of a heart attack near Lake Tahoe, CA at age 82. The English-born actress was perhaps best known for her role in Roger Corman's 1963 film The Raven, based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem, that also starred horror-film regulars Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. In its obituary, the Associated Press observed that Corman directed her in five horror films. "Like other 'scream queens' of the era," the obituary noted, "Court often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths for her roles."

Legendary TV journalist Roger Mudd, who spent nearly 20 years at CBS's Washington bureau, expressed his dismay Wednesday over a recent New York Times report that CBS is considering outsourcing some of its newsgathering activities to CNN. Appearing on NPR's Talk of the Nation, Mudd, who went on to co-anchor NBC Nightly News, said that if CBS embarked on a policy of farming out news coverage to CNN the news organization might eventually end up producing Face the Nation and 60 Minutes and little else. "That would be the sad end" of CBS News, he remarked. Appearing on the same program, Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer maintained that such a scenario "is not going to happen." He insisted that there had only been some talks about CBS and CNN "sharing some resources in Baghdad" and that the talks ended inconclusively. He insisted that the network would "stick with its own reporters through the foreseeable future." But Schieffer's attempt to spike the rumors was challenged by Mudd. "Who told you that?" he asked. Schieffer, however, declined to name his informant and responded that his remarks represented "pretty much what we were told inside the company." Asked if he would be willing to take over the anchor desk at the CBS Evening News again if Katie Couric stepped down, Schieffer replied, "I haven't been asked," then added, "I think that would be a question I would not want to discuss."

Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales has decried ABC's handling of Wednesday night's debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, calling it "another step downward for network news." Shales lashed out at the network's "usually dependable anchors" for turning in what he called "shoddy, despicable performances" by questioning the two Democratic contenders about "specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another." Greg Mitchell in Editor and Publisher reacted similarly, calling the ABC coverage "perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years." But in the New York Times, columnist David Brooks wrote, "I understand the complaints, but I thought the questions were excellent. ... We may not like it, but issues like Jeremiah Wright, flag lapels and the Tuzla airport will be important in the fall. ... It's legitimate to see how the candidates will respond to these sorts of symbolic issues." The debate did draw solid ratings, averaging an 8.8 rating and a 14 share, placing first in the 8:00 p.m. hour, while dropping to second (against American Idol's 14.0/21) in the 9:00 p.m. hour, while holding on to the first hour's audience.

Saying that ESPN "fans don't expect political coverage on our outlets," a spokesman for the Disney-owned cable sports network has acknowledged that it has canceled a planned podcast interview with Barack Obama and columnist Bill Simmons. (The network had once hired political commentator Rush Limbaugh to provide color commentary on its football telecasts but fired him after one appearance for alleged racist remarks.) The New York Daily News reported that the interview had been yanked at the last minute and was the second time an interview with the Democratic front-runner, an inveterate basketball fan who sometimes plays pick-up basketball in his neighborhood (and on the morning TV talk shows), had been spiked. However, ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said later that the network would reevaluate its position "when they're down to the final candidates." The network's decision inspired hundreds of blog posts on various sports-related Internet sites. One wag suggested that if Obama becomes the Democratic candidate, ESPN could interview him about basketball and John McCain about shuffleboard.

PC users are watching much more video over the Internet these days, but little of it comes from the TV networks, according to a new study. Researchers comScore released a report Wednesday showing that online viewing of videos was up 66 percent in February over the same month a year ago, with one third of the viewers accessing videos on YouTube, representing more than 3.3 billion views of online video. By contrast, CNN.com and other Time Warner sites accounted for just 1.3 percent of online viewership, according to comScore -- about 133 million views. Some of its footage, however, was posted on YouTube without its consent, CNN.com executive producer Sandy Malcolm told the Associated Press. "You deal with it," she said. "I don't think you can completely stop it. You just try to beat the tide and try to get your content out as fast as you can."

The attorney hired by the Associated Press to defend AP photographer Bilal Hussein, who was imprisoned for more than two years by the U.S. military after being accused of collaborating with Iraqi insurgents, said that the military produced only two witnesses to testify against him at hearings by an Iraqi court last month. Attorney Paul Gardephe told Photo District News that the two witnesses were the Marines who arrested Hussein in 2006. The military also introduced as evidence Hussein's photo archive, which included photos of insurgents firing weapons, and a swab test that suggested that explosive residue was found in his apartment. Gardephe said that the positive test results probably were the result of an explosion that occurred near Hussein's apartment on the day he was arrested. "There was never any evidence that suggested to me that he was performing in any other role than a photographer covering a conflict," Gardephe told PDN, a magazine for professional photographers, following Hussein's release.

Reuters has called for an investigation into the death of TV news cameraman Fadel Shana, who was apparently killed by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip Wednesday as he attempted to film their tank in an area where violence had broken out. Video taken by Shana shows the tank opening fire -- then going blank seconds later. A Reuters soundman standing next to Shana was wounded by shrapnel. Reuters said that the two men had were standing next to their unarmored vehicle, which bore "TV" and "Press" markings. An Israeli military spokesman expressed sorrow over the death of the cameraman but warned, "The presence of media, photographers and other uninvolved individuals in areas of warfare is extremely dangerous and poses a threat to their lives."