It sounds a bit like Monopoly money but Cate's new film is tipped to earn close to $US1 billion in box office takings around the world, adding to the $US3 billion earned by the three Lord of the Rings films in which Cate played the royal elf, Galadriel.

In Indiana Jones 4: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cate plays a Russian spy, Irina Spalko, who embarks on a desperate race to find the "crystal skull'' ahead of Professor Henry Walton Jones, Jr, better known, of course, as Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford, the

character he played in three previous films and in a one-off appearance in a 1993 episode of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

The film also stars Shia LaBeouf, as Indi's new side-kick, Mutt Williams, and brings back the character of Marion Ravenwood from 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, played then and now by Karen Allen.

Allen is now 57, Harrison Ford 64. They shared adventures - and more! - in Nepal and Egypt in that 1981 film.

This time around? See the film - it adds up to great entertainment with lots of surprises unfolding on screen.

*Also opening today is episode two of another movie trilogy. Following Goal, released here in 2006, Goal II: Living the Dream, PG, sees budding football star Santiago Munez, played by Mexico's Kuno Becker joining Real Madrid where he once again meets up with David

Beckham who was also in that first film.

Beckham is actually just one of a dozen international football stars playing themselves.

In the first film, Santiago and his family had travelled from Mexico and were living in poverty in Los Angeles until Santiago, spotted by a talent scout, was invited to England to join Newcastle United.

Goal III, set around the FIFA world Championships in Germany, is now in post-production with a possible Australian release late this year.