Format: Dual Format: Blu-ray + DVD Release date: 27 June 2011 Distributor: Eureka Entertainment Director: Shôhei Imamura Writer: Hisashi Yamauchi Original title: Buta to gunkan Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Tetsurô Tanba Japan 1961 108 mins

The events of Shôhei Imamura’s cruelly entertaining Pigs and Battleships take place during the transitional period for Japanese society when the once-proud nation was still reeling economically and spiritually from defeat in the Second World War while being occupied by the American military due to the renewal of the American-Japan Security Treaty. I

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‘How to Defeat Your Own Clone’

EXCLUSIVE: Dimension Films has preemptively acquired futuristic comedy guidebook “How to Defeat Your Own Clone” by Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson.

Ed Ricourt will adapt “Clone” for the bigscreen. Ricourt, an alum of Marvel’s writing program, also wrote the feature treatment.

Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Gotham Group’s Eric Robinson will produce. Full Article…

LONDON – Thousands of fans braved rain and battled security restrictions in London’s Trafalgar Square on Thursday to say farewell to the boy wizard Harry Potter at the world premiere of the final movie in the record-breaking series.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2″ is the eighth installment — and the first in 3D — of a franchise that has generated more public excitement and media hype than any other in living memory.

The silver screen adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione have been a magic pot of gold for Hollywood studio Warner Bros, with the seven films released so far grossing $6.4 billion in ticket sales and billions more from DVDs and merchandise.

For a generation of Potter fans, the movies have extended the wizarding world created by British author J.K.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police are on the hunt for a man who walked into a San Francisco art gallery, grabbed a valuable pencil drawing by Pablo Picasso off the wall then fled in a waiting taxicab.

Police on Tuesday said the drawing, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, was taken from the Weinstein Gallery near Union Square.

The gallery says Picasso created the one-of-a-kind drawing titled “Tete de Femme” in 1965.

Officer Albie Esparza told the San Francisco Chronicle that police hope a member of the public might recognize the piece if someone attempts to sell it.

Other artists whose works are still on display at the gallery include Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro.

Police described the suspect as a man in his 30s wearing loafers and dark glasses.

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Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com

Trey Songz gives all the ladies motivation with a sultry voice, sound effects and rock hard abs of steal. At this year’s Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, Trey takes Kelly Rowland’s hit single Motivation and adds his little twist. This brotha knows how to put on a show!

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Miranda Lambert

It’s a particularly festive day for Oklahoma country music fans:

FORT SILL – Hear white-hot star Miranda Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo, headline the Fort Sill Independence Day Celebration with today’s stop on the 2011 Army Concert Tour. The show will begin at 6:20 p.m. today on the Polo Field and will feature Lambert’s “ultimate hero” and Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer Merle Haggard, as well as Edmond red dirt mainstay Stoney LaRue. Gates will open at 6 p.m. The concert is open to the public, and tickets are available at www.sillmwr.com. Information

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