According to The LA Times, Blockbuster and its biggest debtors have already discussed their plans to declare bankruptcy by mid-September with Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Disney and Warner Bros.

Blockbuster has lost a total of $1.1 billion since the beginning of 2008 and has been severely hamstrung in efforts to grow its business due to interest payments on $920 million in debt. Earlier this month the company announced that most of its debt holders had agreed to a forbearance on interest payments until Sept. 30, during which time it would attempt a recapitalization.

Blockbuster’s bankruptcy looks like it’s going to be something of a tangled mess of retail vs. Hollywood vs. digital connections.

This essay covers the entire life of the series 24. There are plot spoilers, especially from season eight and yesterday’s series finale.

Does the end justify the means? This question has found its way into the plot of every season of 24, and made itself perhaps most prominent in the eighth and final season, which came to a close last night. CTU agent Jack Bauer, our gruff, remarkably well-aging hero, seems to have some controversial views on the subject.

There are a few things you can be fairly sure will crop up in a season of 24: a mole within the U.S. government, a nuclear device or biological weapon, an unexpected character from the series’ past, and torture. Lots of torture.

Breaking: Women can be hackers too. Except when women hack, according to a FOX local affiliate in LA, they are actually called ‘hacktivists’ or ‘hack fairies’ or ‘phreakers’ (hunh?). And unlike men, they are solely capable of hacking for all that is good; there are no black hats among them.

Moreover, the woman most prominently featured in the video doesn’t do what we tend to think of as ‘hacking’ in the video, per se; ‘social engineering‘ is probably a more apt description of figuring out passwords by educated guesswork and creating fake social media accounts to thwart evildoers (h/t Zanzan42).

Oh well. More cutesy female/computer puns than you can handle after the jump:

Arrested Development diehards have been whispering about the possibility of a movie based on the show seemingly since the day in 2006 that Arrested Development, like Firefly and so many other great shows, was cruelly canceled by FOX.

The longshot possibility of an AD movie experienced a brief glimmer of hope last year when holdout Michael Cera finally agreed he’d participate. But now, we’ve got more bad tidings, courtesy of David Cross, who played everyone’s favorite analrapist Tobias Fünke on the show: In an interview with TV Squad, he repeatedly said that an Arrested Development movie is “not going to happen.”

Any science fiction news site that needs an overactive comments board need only type two words: Brannon Braga.

Braga, a 14-year veteran Star Trek writer and producer, may be the most divisive individual to ever emerge from a science fiction franchise.  After co-writing 1994′s Star Trek: Generations movie with Ronald Moore, Trekkies labeled Braga as the guy who “killed Kirk” (if you haven’t seen the movie, um, Kirk dies).  Then, when Braga went on to produce Star Trek Voyager, creating Jeri Ryan‘s catsuit-clad character “7 of 9″ and eventually developing an off-screen relationship with her (they’ve long since split), fans were up in arms (read: jealous) and questioned whether Braga was really looking out for the Trek franchise, or himself.

So what, exactly, has Braga done now?

The latest Braga-bashing comes on the heels of Fox’s announcement that they’ve struck a “seven-figure” deal with Braga (who currently produces “24″) to develop new shows for the network:

Because the first Alvin and the Chipmunks movie and Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Squeakquel apparently did not do a good enough job of destroying the good will and nostalgia engendered by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.‘s classic cartoon series — or maybe because they made a combined $791 million worldwide — 20th Century Fox has announced that production has started on Alvin and the Chipmunks 3D, which is set to hit theaters on December 16th, 2011.

Within minutes of the earthquake just off of Chile’s coast early this morning, the US Geological Survey had it pegged – an 8+ on the Richter scale, ten times as strong as Haiti’s 7.0.

A short time later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration presented a map of expected energy distribution throughout the Pacific Ocean. In other words, where one could expect tsunamis. Hawaii, it appeared, was well within the danger zone.

The state moved into action, sounding tsunami warning alarms before sunrise, evacuating beaches and low-lying areas, sending boats out of harbors and into the open sea, where surges of high water posed no harm. KHON Fox 2 in Honolulu went on the air, exploring possible ramifications and providing updates.

Then someone put a camera in front of his TV, aimed it at KHON, and put it on Ustream.tv. At its peak, the stream had over 80,000 viewers.

Viewers watching Sunday night’s new episode of Family Guy on FOX might have been surprised to see what looked like one of Adult Swim’s telltale white-font-on-black-background ads. Only it wasn’t during the commercial break: it was in the middle of the episode. And it plugged Adult Swim as “funnier” than Fox for not cutting out jokes. What gives?