03/07/08: "Playing God" proved he was a box office dud as a leading man.

Even the X-Files movie wasn't that succesful. According to several different May 1998 newspaper articles on the rising costs of film production, 20th Century Fox spent around 60 million dollars promoting the film worldwide, and the production budget, originally said to be 60 million dollars as well, was eventually revealed to have been closer to 66 million. With a minimum expenditure of 126 million dollars for production/promotion, the film had a worldwide gross of slightly over 189 million, of which the studio would have received around about 55%.

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