Dammit: The clock’s about to run out for “24.”
Nothing’s official yet, but Fox has all but decided to make the current season of the Kiefer Sutherland thriller its last, according to people familiar with the network’s decision. Fox and 20th Century Fox TV have begun end-of-life conversations and a formal announcement that season eight will [...]

Actor Corey Haim died from an apparent accidental drug overdose after he was rushed to a Los Angeles County hospital early this morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Haim, 38, was taken from his mother’s North Hollywood home by ambulance to Burbank’s Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, according to police Sgt. Frank Albarran.
He was pronounced dead [...]

It was just a matter of time before another rainbow classic from Hollywood’s golden era gets on the radar of the movie studios to be remade - or rather updated for modern audiences.
Fresh off Disney’s massive success with Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” Warner Bros. wants to remake another childhood classic. Like, really classic.
The studio [...]

‘The Hurt Locker’ was the winner of the Best Picture award at the 2010 Oscars. The Iraq-set war drama about bomb disposal experts also netted director Kathryn Bigelow the Best Director award, making her the first woman to win the award in film history.
“The Hurt Locker” follows a United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) [...]

An Army sergeant has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the makers of Oscar-nominated film “The Hurt Locker” just days before the Academy Awards ceremony, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.
The suit was filed late Tuesday in federal court in New Jersey.
In the suit, Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver said [...]

Harrison Ford says an idea for the storyline for the fifth Indiana Jones film has been agreed.
The Hollywood actor says he, director Steven Spielberg and writer George Lucas have come up with a rough outline for the follow-up to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
He said: “Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas] and I are sort of [...]

And now, just in time for Oscar junkies, comes a new statistical mincing of the movies that may someday yield an award category of its own: best fit between a movie’s tempo and the natural rhythms of the brain.

Reporting in the journal Psychological Science, James E. Cutting of Cornell University and his colleagues described their discovery that Hollywood [...]

HOLLYWOOD’S golden age may have ended in the 1950s, but it is only recently that Tinseltown appears to have hit upon a mathematical way to capitalise on our fickle attention spans.
“Film-makers have got better and better at constructing shots so that their lengths grab our attention,” says James Cutting, a psychologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, [...]

No one can stretch a day out like ‘24′, where no one ever has to eat or use a bathroom. But it seems some things are worth halting for: Fox has temporarily suspended production of the hit show because star Kiefer Sutherland has to have surgery.
Details of the nature of the surgery were not instantly available, but Fox [...]

Researchers from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, screened the popular medical dramas “Grey’s Anatomy,” “House,” “Private Practice” and “ER” to see if TV medical dramas were helping to educate the public about first aid and seizures.
The researchers found in 327 episodes screened, 59 seizures occurred. Fifty-one seizures took place in a hospital. Nearly all first [...]