Amazon has eight titles available in their Digital Rental Deals for this weekend, which include several new movies, like The Smurfs, Colombiana, Kung Fu Panda 2, and Final Destination 5, for only $1.99 each.

*- Mr. Popper’s Penguins | 48-Hour Rental
– The Smurfs | 24-Hour Rental
– Kung Fu Panda 2 | 24-Hour Rental
– Final Destination 5 | 48-Hour Rental
– Columbiana | 24-Hour Rental
– 30 Minutes Or Less | 24-Hour Rental
– Straw Dogs | 24-Hour Rental
*- Glee: The Concert Movie | 48-Hour Rental

Once you activate the rental through Amazon’s Instant Demand service, you’ll have access to the movie for 24-48 hours (as noted above). If you’re interested in purchasing the digital versions, the cost is $14.99 each.

In addition to talking about how his latest film, Colombiana, began as a sequel to the 1994 Luc Besson film, The Professional, director Olivier Megaton also chatted about another sequel he has coming up in Taken 2.

Megaton talked about approaching the sequel cautiously, as well as figuring out how to utilize star Liam Neeson, who even he admits was in a movie that was all too similar to Taken with the 2011 flick, Unknown.

The new Zoe Saldana action flick that hit theaters this past weekend, Colombiana, arrived to pretty mediocre box office numbers and overall critical response. But did you know the movie actually started off as a sequel to the 1994 Luc Besson–directed film, Léon: The Professional.

The Professional starred Jean Reno as a quiet and reclusive mob hitman named Léon who befriends a young girl named Mathilda (Natalie Portman) after her entire family is murdered by a corrupt DEA agent with a drug problem named Stansfield (Gary Oldman). She begs Léon to teach her what he knows so she can get revenge on Stansfield for killing her four–year–old brother””the only member of her dysfunctional family she really cared about””while in return she cleans his apartment and teaches him how to read.