Just from the images the new Judge Dredd film is going to have a lot less one liners and a lot more exploding heads. ‘Dredd’ it slated to theaters September 21st, 2012.

So the question now is will people be interested in a Bourneless Bourne movie? Check out the trail and let us know what you think. I for one am in and ready to see how well Renner fits into the roll and the world of Jason Bourne. Like the trail says, there was never just one.

‘The Bourne Legacy’ hits theaters August 3rd, 2012.

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MOD provides film fans the opportunity to see the most talked about films of the year for the first time if they missed them in the theater or experience them again. Some of the year’s biggest nominated hits such as “Midnight in Paris,” “The Help,” “Bridesmaids,” and many others are currently available on demand. Fans can stay up-to-date on Awards Season on cable by visiting www.rentmoviesondemand.com/awards. This special micro-site features trailers, trivia, contests and more.

Just-nominated feature films now playing or available soon on MOD on cable include:

· “Midnight in Paris” – Now playing, rated PG-13 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction)
· “The Help” – Now playing, rated PG-13 (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress)
· “The Tree of Life” – Now playing until March 25, rated PG-13 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Achievement in Cinematography)
· “Moneyball” – Now playing, rated PG-13 (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Achievement in Film Editing, Best Achievement in Sound Mixing)
· “Warrior” – Now playing, rated PG-13 (Best Supporting Actor)
· “Bridesmaids” – Now playing through Feb. 29, rated R (Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay)
· “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” – Now playing, rated PG-13 (Best Achievement in Art Direction, Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects)
· “Beginners” – Now playing, rated R (Best Supporting Actor)
· “Margin Call” – Now playing, rated R (Best Original Screenplay)
· “The Ides of March” – Now playing, rated R (Best Adapted Screenplay)
· “Kung Fu Panda 2” – Now playing, rated PG (Best Animated Feature)
· “Jane Eyre” – Now playing through Jan. 27, rated PG-13 (Best Costume Design)
· “Anonymous” –Premieres Feb. 7, rated PG-13 (Best Costume Design)
· “Hell and Back Again”– Now playing, not rated (Best Documentary)
· “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”– Now playing, not rated (Best Documentary)
· “Drive” – Premieres Jan. 31, rated R (Best Sound Editing)
· “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” – Now playing, rated PG-13, (Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects)
· “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” – Now playing, rated PG-13 (Best Visual Effects)
· “Real Steel – Now playing, rated PG (Best Visual Effects)

With Movies On Demand through digital cable, viewers can watch these films and many of the most iconic previous award-winning releases available instantly, with pause, fast-forward and rewind functionality.*

Among the many former winners now widely available on MOD on cable* are: “The Pianist,” “American Beauty,” “Crash,” “Crazy Heart,” “Erin Brockovich,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Walk The Line,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “The Departed,” “The Blind Side,” “As Good As It Gets” and “Mary Poppins – 1964.”

*Title dates and availability may vary by system.

These movies are distributed to U.S. cable systems by iN DEMAND. For full listings, go to www.indemand.com

, on-screen guides or cable system websites. Listings for Cable’s Movies On Demand can also be found at TVGuide.com.

OWN IT ON MARCH 6, 2012 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY

Prepare to experience the world of TRANSFORMERS PRIME like never before with perfect picture visuals and the purest digital sound available when the entire first season of the award-winning CGI animated series TRANSFORMERS PRIME arrives in stores everywhere in North America on March 6, 2012 in a deluxe 4-DVD set and a Limited Edition 4-Disc Blu-ray™ collection from Shout! Factory, in collaboration with Hasbro Studios.

Both the DVD and Blu-ray collections of TRANSFORMERS PRIME: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON boast all 26 action-packed episodes (including the 5-part miniseries Darkness Rising) and special bonus content. For a limited time only, TRANSFORMERS PRIME: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Limited Edition 4-Disc Blu-ray contains a 96-page IDW graphic novel based on this hit series.

The TRANSFORMERS saga starts a new chapter as old foes return, legendary heroes rise, and new ones are found in unlikely places. The new EMMY Award winning series TRANSFORMERS PRIME, A Hasbro Studios production, currently airs on The HUB television network in the U.S. and Teletoons in Canada, deepens the epic mythology of both the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS, while starting a new chapter for a new generation of fans.

In early 2011, loyal TRANSFORMERS fans, as well as families and kids, were introduced to this visually stunning five-part miniseries on The HUB. OPTIMUS PRIME, BUMBLEBEE, ARCEE, AUTOBOT RATCHET, BULKHEAD, and many others are back to “roll out” against MEGATRON’s latest attempt to conquer Earth. And MEGATRON proves to be more powerful than ever, having acquired a rare element that allows him mastery over life itself. OPTIMUS PRIME and the AUTBOTS may be few against the DECEPTICON hordes, but they find increased strength through bonds forged with three human teenagers.

Season One of TRANSFORMERS PRIME boasts an all-star voice cast, including Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Steve Blum, Jeffrey Combs, Adam Baldwin, Markie Post, Ernie Hudson, among other notables. TRANSFORMERS PRIME is produced by Hasbro Studios, with Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Kline serving as executive producers. Kurtzman and Orci served as writers for the feature films TRANSFORMERS and TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen.

TRANSFORMERS PRIME recently garnered two Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation and six Emmy nominations.

TRANSFORMERS PRIME: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
Bonus Content
Original Making of Special
15 Audio Commentaries with the Creative Team and Voice Cast
Toy Featurette
Season Two Teaser Debuted at New York Comic-Con 2011

I’m still curious to see how this movie goes over seeing as how child on child violence is a central part of the plot. The books have been very successful but movies often reach a much wider audience. It will be interesting to see the general public’s reaction.

‘The Hunger Games’ hit theaters March 23

Jack Garfein

Acclaimed director Jack Garfein (“Something Wild,” “The Strange One”) spoke at the University of North Texas last week about his life as a theatre-film artist. Mr. Garfein suffered and survived the horrors of a concentration camp at the age of 13, and became a successful Broadway director after immigrating to the United States.

“My mother said, ‘If you’re courageous enough, tear off your star and take my hand; we we’ll go through the town.’ I said, ‘Mamma, the drummer announced it’s Martial law; any Jew on the street will be killed.’ And she said, ‘Well, I’ll tell you something. That’s a better death than how we’re going to be dealt with.’”

Jack Garfein only spoke briefly about his Holocaust experience; as you can probably imagine, it’s a very emotional subject. He spoke about how he and his family were taken from their home in Czechoslovakia and put in Germany’s infamous Auschwitz. After spending two years at the camp, the camp was liberated by U.S. troops, but Garfein was the only member of his family that survived.

 Auschwitz

He eventually made his way to America and took acting classes at the Dramatic Workshop in New York City, and he also joined The Actors Studio. After appearing on stage, he worked his way up on Broadway, where he directed his first hit play at the age of 25. He directed two of Arthur Miller’s plays and a number of others, working with many notable actors.

I found it remarkable that I met the man that was responsible for the start of many famous actors’ careers; many of whom are idols of mine. There were two stories that he talked about that completely amazed me. One, when he was working on his first directed play.

 James Dean

“When I was working on my first directed play, the older and more known actors (at the time) wouldn’t work with me. ‘He’s young. He’s new. He doesn’t know anything,‘ they would say. So I had to work with inexperienced actors. I worked with this one dishwasher named James Dean. He was just starting out, and the producers didn’t want me to have inexperienced actors. But I told them, ‘I make it with them or I don’t make it at all.’”

James Dean is one of my favorite actors of all-time, and to think what it would have been like if Jack Garfein hadn’t cast him in his play…  Would James Dean have gone on to make “Rebel Without a Cause,” “East of Eden,” or “Giant?”

The other story was about him working with Marilyn Monroe, who was just starting out in her career as an actress. This story was very personal, and after seeing the film “My Week with Marilyn,” it struck my fancy. In this story he talked about how he and Marilyn went shopping together after rehearsing one day, and how she wanted him to hold her hand while they walked around.

 Marilyn Monroe

“‘I just got married, and my wife [Carroll Baker, who he directed in "Something's Wild"] is doing a film in the south; I’m not looking for any trouble, Marilyn,’ I told her. She said, ‘Don’t be stupid, Jack. Okay, you know what? We’ll go in this coffee shop here, and we’ll sit next to each other, and if nobody recognizes me– you’ll stop being stupid and you’ll take my hand!’ We went into the coffee shop, and I got her a drink and served her. We sat down, and not one person asked her for an autograph. So when we left she said, ‘see,‘ and I replied with, ‘okay.’ So I took her hand and we went down the strip… I always felt that Marilyn was testing the honesty of men. I was a young man, and she was a beautiful woman. Obviously, certain things were happening. And I could see that she enjoyed having that kind of fun, that kind of game with me. I met with her a few more times, but not again for many years. And about 2 years before she passed away, I walked into a restaurant and I see Marilyn with her secretary on a Saturday night. I said, ‘Marilyn? Saturday night, with a secretary? What’s going on?’ She looked at me: ‘Hey there, Jack, you want to leave your wife? What do you suggest?’ You know what I suggested?  ’Marilyn, you should move to Paris. You’ll be the heroine of France.’ Marilyn said, ‘You ready to leave your wife and go with me, Jack? But do you remember that day when we went shopping? You said something to me, do you remember what it was? I was going through a difficult time in my life, and what you said to me helped me get through it. Do you remember?’ Well, like any man, I lied: ‘yes!’ She looked into my eyes: ‘Well, what was it?’ ‘I don’t want to say it, Marilyn,’ I told her. ‘You’re lying. You don’t remember; it was very important to me.’ ‘Really, I remember; I just don’t want to get into it.’ And then, I left. My friends called me a ‘schmuck’ for the longest time after that. The terrible part was after her death I saw her secretary at another restaurant, and she came up to me and said, ‘You know, Marilyn really loved you. Like really loved you. I just wanted to tell you that, Jack. She talked a lot about you.’ This made me feel awful because I could never remember what I told her that day when we went shopping…”

The story with Marilyn ended rather sadly, but he went on to talk about another story in which he saw her naked. Nothing happened, so get your mind out of the gutter!

Yes, he worked with James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, but he also helped advance the careers of Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, and Ben Gazzara.

 Paul Newman

On top of working with all these great actors, directing two major films, and making a documentary called “The Journey Back,” which he chronicles his return to Auschwitz, he is also known as one of the most experienced teachers of method acting. He taught in France and London for more than 40 years. In 1966, he became the director of The Actors Studio and created the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York City.

Jack Garfein, 81, has a wonderful book out now called Life and Acting: Techniques for the Actor. You should check it out and read more about him, and how he impacted the stage and Hollywood. He’s a great man.

This wouldn’t be an episode of “Spartacus” without our title character. Spartacus is leading his band south, keeping his word to Crixus that they would find Naevia. Along the way they free Roman house slaves, and those who want to stay with the band are taken in. They do run into one slave named Tiberius, who attacks Spartacus for killing his Dominus. Spartacus spares him and begins instead teaching him to fight. This in turn shows Tiberius that while his station was high within the slave ladder of the Roman house, he was still just a slave. This is simply a step by Spartacus to create an army that is united by allegiance to the same cause.

Illithya is still in Capua with Claudias Glaber, as well as a cleaned-up Lucretria. Knowing that somewhere in the broken Domina’s mind is the knowledge of her murdering Licinia (Spartacus: Blood and Sand), Illithya has begun testing what Lucretia remembers. She’s regaining bits and pieces, and that is clearly unsettling to Illithya. It’s going to be interesting to watch this relationship unfold for what it is as Lucretia regains her memories. Glaber is still hunting the rogue band of slaves, but now is also dealing with Seppius in hopes of an allegience. Seppius has enough men to go after Spartacus and win, where Glaber does not, but the talks between the praetor and citizen are quickly deteriorating. It’s also revealed in this episode the identity of the person who brings Oenomaus out of The Pit and back to the House of Batiatus to stand before Glaber.

“Spartacus: Vengeance” is shown on Starz every Friday at 10e/9c. If you haven’t already set it to record weekly, you really should.