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Zach Galifianakis may be best known as the breakout star of The Hangover movie franchise,but he takes on politicsand Will Ferrellin the Jay Roach directed comedy The Campaign. The film is about Cam Brady Ferrell,a congressman in North Carolina who has run unopposed for the last few elections and expects to cruise to another victory. But two CEOs determined to oust him decide to hand-pick a naive man,Marty Huggins Galifianakis,to run against him. Politics has become so insanely rough that we thought it would be interesting to make a movie about the making of candidates, he said.

Andrew Motion,Englands former poet laureate,is taking a new generation of readers back to Treasure Island in his latest book,which follows the characters from Robert Louis Stevensons classic adventure. In Silver: Return to Treasure Island,Jim Hawkins is four decades older and runs an inn with his son Jim,who meets an unusual girl on the river that runs by his home. Natty is the daughter of Long John Silver and has what turns out to be an irresistible proposal for young Jim: to return to Treasure Island and seek the treasure abandoned by their fathers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said he and fellow 1980s action star Sylvester Stallone wanted to work together for decades,but it wasnt until they met up at a hair salon that their first collaboration came together. The Rocky and Terminator actors had talked about uniting on screen for 20 years,Schwarzenegger said in a recent interview,but never found the right script at a time when they were both free of other commitments. There was always something off. The script was not right,or the studio was not as interested in it as we were. 8230; It just didnt happen, he said.