The Three Musketeers

You know Halloween is right around the corner when a horror movie dominates the box office, which is exactly what Paranormal Activity 3 did in its debut weekend. The scary flick took in an impressive $54 million, earning the record for highest Fall opening ever and best opening for a horror movie ever. Reel Steel was left in the dust, settling for a distant second with $11.3 million, while Footloose slipped to third with $10.9 million. Newcomer The Three Musketeers took fourth place with $8.8 million, and The Ides of March stayed in the top five by taking in $4.9 million.

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We sat down with Orlando Bloom ahead of the UK premiere of The Three Musketeers earlier this month. He made the trip to London from Paris after watching his wife Miranda Kerr walk the runway during Fashion Week. Orlando traveled solo to take care of press for the action film, leaving both Miranda and their son Flynn in the City of Lights. Orlando chatted with us about the movie, being a father, his precious Flynn, and being a family of three. Stay tuned for the full video coming up later this week!

PopSugar: Your wife, Miranda, was pregnant while you were filming this movie, how has life changed since then?

Orlando Bloom: How hasn’t it? I don’t know. That’s a hard one to answer. It’s drastically different. It’s amazing. I always wanted to be a dad.

PS: How do you both juggle parenthood with such busy schedules?

OB: It’s like a juggling act, it’s a big juggling act. We just as much as possible, you know, I go to see her, she comes to see me. We just spend time. She came to see me when I was working on Hobbit in New Zealand and I went to Paris to see her. I can’t be away from him [Flynn] for more than a few days or a week because then I start to jones, because like he’s growing so quickly. We try to keep it as a unit as much as possible.

PS: What do you love most about doing these action movies?

OB: I love the characters that I’ve got to play really. You know I love that I’m kind of living out a boyhood dream in many ways and that my son will get to watch some of these movies tickles me, silly. You know when he’s like 11 years old he’ll probably love The Three Musketeers and hopefully he’ll love all the stuff that I’ve done and he’ll get to go “ohhhh” you know it’s fun. Stack them all up put them in a room and he can just watch them.

The Three Musketeers was short two Musketeers at WonderCon today. Logan Lerman who plays the young rebel D'Artagnan came out to support the project along with Luke Evans who costars as Aramis. But Matthew Macfadyen (Athos) and Ray Stevenson (Porthos) were absent, as was Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich, and Christoph Waltz. Not to worry though, because the panel still helped shed light on the upcoming retelling of the classic story. Read below to get the dish on what to expect.

• The panel started with the same teaser we saw just a couple weeks ago; however, this time I was definitely more on board with the film. Watching it on a big screen with surround sound made it much more exciting.
• Lerman talked extensively about his training for the film, particularly the fencing he had to learn. In the big, intricate fights, he had to perform as many as 150 moves in just one scene! That's a lot to remember, but it was dangerous too. "Every time the swords hit, there were sparks!" he said. Even though the actors did their own fight scenes, no one got seriously injured. Evans noted that there were a few sword cuts. He quipped: "You want us to say there were fatalities, don't you?"
• Lerman talked a bit about his costars who weren't in attendance. He describes Jovovich's character in the film as an "asskicking m'lady" who terrifies the Musketeers, and joked that Waltz "brought his Oscar every day" to set."
• While the Musketeers have been portrayed in film before, both of the stars promised that this new version will bring its own slant to the story. "We're looking at it as the untold chapter of the story," said Lerman. "Make them the James Bond, Navy SEALs of their time." Evans suggested that there's always room for another film version."They're good stories," he said. "They last forever, and they deserve a place in everyone's generation. This one is the same."
• As for their look in the film, apparently it comes down to one thing: hair. "I had a lot of hair in this one, it's true," laughed Lerman. "Sexy hair," added Evans.