The group is looking forward to a strong second half of the year, it said, with the release of more big draws such as the first 3D Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia films.

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Written as as first-person narrative, Rum Diary chronicles a sweaty, perpetually drunken summer spent by one Paul Kemp in Puerto Rico during the 1950s.

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In the first case, William Souder, an American journalist, chronicles the jarring tale that unfolded near his own backyard in Minnesota.

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