IN THE four years since he last set sail in the realm of big-budget filmmaking, voyaging with the Pirates of the Caribbean to World’s End in 2007, Orlando Bloom has been adrift on quiet waters.

Orlando Bloom has signed up for new 3-D film ‘The Three Musketeers’.

IN The Count Of Monte Cristo, a highly entertaining, beautifully photographed rekindling of the classic French novel by Alexandre Dumas, director Kevin Reynolds choreographs a fantastic adventure replete with breathtaking scenery, fiery swashbuckling battles, lavish costumes, and, above all else, sweet revenge.

Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea dons clerical garb for yet another screen version of the Alexandre Dumas swashbuckling classic, The Three Musketeers.

JAMES Patrick Caviezel might have been a doctor, or a pilot, even a pro basketball player. Instead, he became an actor and today he's one of the hot Hollywood items with a "role so small if you blink you'd miss it" in My Own Private Idaho, with Keanu Reeves and the ill-fated River Phoenix and a breakthrough role in The Thin Red Line, and follow-ups in Frequency and Play It Forward.

Pierce Brosnan has confirmed he will be in at least one more 007 movie after the one he's currently shooting: "I would certainly like to do another one. After that? Who knows ...."

Richard Harris will be seen next month in the latest screen outing for The Count of Monte Cristo, which was made in Ireland.