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Poor Jack Bauer. He's gone from saving the world to dozing off on a couch while his granddaughter watches cartoons. Still looking as though he's feeling some of the effects from his exposure to a bioweapon and the subsequent stem cell surgery, Bauer is hanging around New York with his daughter, Kim, and her milquetoast husband, who are getting ready to return to Los Angeles and want him to join them. Bauer seems to move a little slower and is unsuccessfully trying to convince himself that he's ready for life as a grandpa and, gasp, a desk jockey back in Los Angeles.

Today MySpace Movies exclusively debuts the restricted trailer for REPO MEN, starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber. Universal Pictures' futuristic action-thriller is in theaters on April 2, 2010 and directed by Miguel Sapochnik.

Hoist the Jolly Roger above the bestseller list, ye mateys, 'cause Michael Crichton has just published a swashbuckling pirate thriller. The popular author of "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain" went to Davy Jones's locker last November, but his assistant found a finished draft of "Pirate Latitudes" on his computer, and Harper has plundered this booty like a chest of gold doubloons that washed up on shore.

Roland Emmerich’s thriller about a global cataclysm opened at No. 1 with a higher-than-expected $65 million in ticket sales.

Director Duncan Jones has announced his next film, with the British helmer set to stay in the sci-fi realm for thriller Source Code.

One of "24's" favorite villains, former president Charles Logan, is coming back. Gregory Itzin has signed for a multiepisode arc on the upcoming eighth season.

Micro-budget thriller hacks the box office crown from perennial pre-Halloween chart topper ''Saw'' ($14.8M)

This week at the movies, we've got robot clones (Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell), artistic-minded freshmen (Fame, starring Kelsey Grammer and Megan Mullally), and scared spacemen (Pandorum, starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster). What do the critics have to say? Unfortunately, only one of this week's opening wide releases was screened for critics, so it's currently the only film with a Tomatometer. Does this spell bad news for the other two?

Based on the $85 million robbery in England in 2006.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has boarded "Machete," the action-thriller pic from Robert Rodriguez.