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A treatise on masculinity masquerading as a fairytale love story, The Lucky One (12A) stars Zac Efron as Logan, who finds a picture of a beautiful blonde woman while serving as a Marine in Iraq.

Based on a book by Nicholas Sparks, who also penned ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Dear John’, ‘The Lucky One’ follows a similar template – hunky guy, beautiful girl, deathly spectre of war – to chronicle the efforts of a battle-hardened Marine (Zac Efron) to track down the divorced mom (Taylor Schilling), whose photograph literally saved his life behind enemy lines.

Zac Efron is in talks to star in ‘The Lucky One’.

If Cyrus could act this film might have limped across the finishing line, but she can’t and it didn’t.

IT had to happen sometime, but nobody expected the biggest film of all time to lose its North American box office crown this weekend to Dear John, a low-budget “chick flick” with a pair of little-known stars.

Miley Cyrus has signed up for a fourth series of 'Hannah Montana'.

With her marriage in freefall, Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane) takes time out to spend a weekend in the North Carolina coastal community of Rodanthe, looking after the beachside inn run by her good friend.

JK Rowling is the world’s best paid author, banking more than £170m (€217.4m) in the last year, US business magazine Forbes said today.

'Hannah Montana' star Miley Cyrus is reportedly set to star in an untitled film by 'The Notebook' author Nicholas Sparks.