You may have seen Carey Mulligan playing Keira Knightley’s hysterically giddy sister Kitty in the film adaptation of  Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice. The film was a turning point in Mulligan’s career. At  just 19 years old she had been invited to dinner at writer Julian Fellowes’ house, where she met a production assistant looking to cast the Bennet family. It would be Carey’s first film role and she would appear alongside the likes of Knightley, Dame Judi Dench and Rosamund Pike.

And Carey Mulligan is setting Hollywood on fire right now. Forget the hot lips of Megan Fox or the blonde tresses of Cameron Diaz, Carey fits into an entirely different box, unashamedly unafraid to be different. Mulligan is tipped to pick up an Oscar next year, after garnering rave reviews for An Education at the Sundance Film Festival in January.  The film created a good old-fashioned bidding war between producers and distributors, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in a long while.

In the film, Mulligan plays the incredibly bright, but incredibly dreamy, Jenny, a 16-year-old student vying for a place studying English at Oxford. Until, that is, she meets the older David, who can give her the life she’s always dreamed of – and without having to go to Oxford to achieve it. Mulligan manages to pull the entire film off herself, carrying each scene effortlessly, with David Germaine from the Canadian Press describing Mulligan’s performance as “a star-making turn”. When I met Carey in a Knightsbridge hotel, she told me that she hadn’t even realized that she was the lead role in An Education until she noticed that she was on set a lot more than anybody else.

You can also catch Carey playing the daughter of Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko in Wall Street II: Money Never Sleeps. While on the set she met her current boyfriend Shia LaBeouf, propelling her even further into the public consciousness, and making them a Hollywood couple to watch. Carey is also due to appear with an all star cast in Brothers, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire before reuniting with on-screen sister Keira Knightley for the drama Never Let Me Go. The lady, it would seem, is fully booked, and has our undivided attention.

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First there was Spider-Man 3, then there was Shrek The Third, now comes Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, the third part in the third trilogy of this summer (which will be followed by Ocean’s Thirteen, The Bourne Ultimatum, Rush Hour 3, and Resident Evil: Extinction soon enough). At World’s End (AWE) having been filmed at the same time as the previous installment gives it an added advantage in that there hasn’t been a long waiting period in between films (less than a year) and that audiences still have Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and crew on the mind.

This film opens not long after second as the East India Trading Company is killing off all the people who have been called pirates or are pirate sympathizers as Lord Beckett (Tom Hollander) uses Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) to destroy pirate ships all across the oceans. Meanwhile Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swan (Keira Knightley), and Newly resurrected Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) are not only trying to unite the Pirate Lords against the East India Trading Company but are also trying to save Sparrow from the bowels of Davy Jones Locker. With the help of voodoo priestess Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris) they will set across the Netherworld to bring Sparrow back from the land of the dead in order to awaken Calypso from her entrapment in a human body. It’s a complex story where characters betray each other left and right and you’re never sure who’s good and who’s bad and who just doesn’t have a clue (as does seem the case with Sparrow most of the time.

Unlike in the previous film the stories are better integrated in the whole of the film and even though there is a lot of story there is more in the way of action. This is due in part to Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio who return for a third time on the screenplay and director Gore Verbinski who provides a consistent vision throughout. The fight scenes are more elaborate and even though the Kracken doesn’t return for this film there is plenty to keep the huge cast occupied throughout. AWE not only strives to entertain but elevate above the trappings of other action-adventure films in order to have a film with backbone and something to say.

Dick “DJ” Grayson is mostly known as Robin: Batman’ sidekick. The only thing we know about him before Bruce took under his wing is that he was a young acrobat and part of the family act called The Flying Graysons. A gangster named Boss Zucco killed his parents by sabotaging their trapeze equipments.

Well guess what? You might actually get to know more about The Boy Wonder’s early years: CW is working on a one-hour series about DJ’s life before Batman called The Graysons. With Smallville probably coming to an end, it is considered as either its replacement or its companion. It will be produced by Smallville’s executive producers (Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson) – Surprise! – with Supernatural’s (McG).

According to Variety “It will be set in modern times and follow DJ as he experiences the challenges of growing up, first love, rivals and close knit family life that will eventually inspire him to lead a life of crime fighting along side Batman on the streets of Gotham City.”

He will more likely be a teen like 1995 Batman Forever rather than an 8 years old kid like in the DC Comics.

The question is: will it survive? Smallville is about how Clark Kent discovers his origins, super powers and other abilities. He also has to learns how control them and keep it a secret from his friends and the rest of the world while trying to live a normal life. Compared to it, The Graysons looks so pale. Entertainment Weekly calls it “the worst idea ever of the week” and I agree.

I wouldn’t have mind a pre Batman story with Bruce Wayne. What I think is weird is that originally, producers wanted to tell the story of a young Bruce Wayne but had to shift their sights to young Clack Kent.

Welcomed with so many criticisms, I wonder if the story will actually make it to the big screens.

Pirates Of The Caribbean’s The Curse Of The Black Pearl grossed $655,011,224, Dead Man’s Chest $1,065,659,812, At World’s End $952,420,425 and the theme park is the most popular in Disneyland.

With a franchise doing so well, it’s no wonder that Disney is working on a fourth installment: The Fountain Of Youth. It is scheduled to be released in 2011. Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa are on a race to find it. This leaves no places for Will and Elisabeth. – They are probably living happily ever after with their son at some corner of the world. – Does it mean that there will be no romance in the story this time? No one knows yet. Other detail which has been released so far is that the story will mostly be around Captain Jack Sparrow’s past and his family. It will be in the same vein as Jules Verne (big flying machines) with a visit to a lost place (probably Atlantis). It will be an adventure/science fiction pirate story – That’s a first – It hasn’t been confirmed yet, but producer Jerry Bruckheimer might make it a trilogy.

Even tough Orlando Bloom (William Turner) and Keira Knightley (Elisabeth Swann Turner) won’t be part of it, it seems like it has more chance than The Graysons.

Johnny Depp is going to be quite busy. Other than Pirate Of The Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Fountain Of Youth, he also is scheduled to play Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland and Tonto in Lone Ranger.

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Orlando Bloom debuted in the year 1997 as a rent boy in the film Wilde. And just two days after his graduation at Guildhall, he took one of his most popular movie roles to date, Legolas from Lord of the Rings trilogy. This would not have happened if he got the role he auditioned for, the role of Faramir, who becomes part of the story only on the second part. The director of the Lord of the Rings had Bloom play the role of Legolas instead. Another unfortunate thing that could have ruined his role as Legolas is his accident during the filming. Thankfully, Bloom recovered soon enough for him to go on with the rest of the film.

The second movie that contributed to Orlando Bloom’s immense popularity is Black Hawk Down. In this film, Bloom played the role of Todd Blackburn. Though his role in Black Hawk Down may have been brief, it did not stop fans from noticing his looks and acting skills. After starring in these flicks, Bloom managed to be included in Teen People’s 25 Hottest Stars under the age of 25 list. Successively, he was also named as People magazine’s hottest bachelor in Hollywood for the year 2004.

Because of the incredible success of Lord of the Rings, he also received nominations from Screen Actors Guild Awards together with his co-actors. The cast continued to be nominees for three years until they were finally given the Best Ensemble Acting award officially on their third nomination in a row. Other than the SAGs, Bloom also received recognitions from other award giving bodies such as Hollywood Festival Awards, Teen Choice Awards, Empire Awards and European Film Awards.

His success did not stop with these blockbuster hits and overwhelming awards, for in the summer of 2003, he got hold of a role in another highly anticipated trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean, along with equally loved actors, Keira Knightley and Johnny Depp. As expected, the film rose to fame and garnered love and appreciation not just by the fans but also from critics. The release of the second and third installment also proved to be a success, making Bloom an even more popular actor.

Other than Pirates, LOTR and Black Hawk Down, Orlando Bloom also participated in other critically-acclaimed films. He became a part of the film, Troy, in the spring of 2004 where Bloom shared the limelight with other actors such as Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole and Eric Bana.

He proved to be not just one of the most good looking actors in the industry but also one of the most talented as well as he played lead roles in Elizabethtown and Kingdom of Heaven both in the year 2005. He does not limit his roles in mainstream movies for he also took part in the production of an independent film, Haven, in which he was the executive producer. And quite obviously, Bloom has not done a single film that did not make it big. He can indeed turn any movie into a blockbuster hit.