Speaking to The Guardian Loach said: “He was a player of consummate skill and great cheek. Most people who enjoy football just saw in Eric’s performance a very strong personality that communicated the joy of football.”

“I mean, I’m not overimpressed by anybody in films because it’s the business and we just work in it.

“When it’s somebody from outside who is very special in their own field, and particularly if it’s a field you care about…you are impressed because, that level, it’s something you can’t approach. You can only stand back and admire really.”

But this is not Cantona’s first appearance on the big screen after landing a part in Elizabeth in 1999 and in this week’s release French Film.

Looking For Eric will compete in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival later this month.

The X-Men star has invited fellow ‘tweeters’ to recommend causes they believe will most benefit from the windfall, and he has vowed to give the generous sum to the selected charity on behalf of the person who can deliver the most convincing and impassioned plea - within the short textual limit the website allows.

Jackman writes on his official Twitter page: “I will donate 100K to one individual’s favourite non profit organisation. Of course, you must convince me why by using 140 characters or less.

“The more passion shown for your charity the better! Get the support of your friends and teach them the importance of giving.”

The Australian actor’s announcement comes less than a week after he was forced to admit he had recruited an assistant to update his Twitter.com page - following an embarrassing blunder in which his blog mistakenly referred to Sydney’s famous Opera House as the ‘Opera Centre.’

It was revealed last week that Jackman’s new movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine was leaked onto the internet. The film was downloaded as many as 100,000 and 20th Century Fox have brought in the FBI to investigate the leak.

Schwarzenegger played the main character in the first three movies and suggestions that he was going to appear in a cameo role have hinted at for many months.

Speaking in an interview with MTV he said: “Not yet. In fact, today is April 10, I’m doing this interview on April 10 and we don’t know if Schwarzenegger is in the movie or not. It’s not clear. I can say that.”

“It’s a complicated, delicate balancing act as of now. The jury is still out.”

Terminator Salvation is released in the UK June 3rd.

Aykroyd is returning to the film series, along with Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson, for the first time since 1989, they first burst onto cinema screens in

In an interview with MTV he said: “There will be a whole new generation that has to be trained, and that whole new generation will be led by an individual who you’ll all love when you meet him but I’m not going to tell you anything yet.”

Aykroyd, along with Ramis, penned the script as well as starring in the film and Ramis has returned to the role of scriptwriter for the new movie.

Despite early whispers a studio representative has denied rumours that Superbad and Knocked Up filmmaker Judd Apatow was to direct the new movie.

Aykroyd also further hinted that the new recruits will be able to travel to different dimensions by using a ‘neuron splitter’.

A release date for the film has not yet been announced.

The fourth movie in the franchise, which sees Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return to their original roles, toppled Monsters vs. Aliens as it went on to gross £4.9 million. Monster vs. Aliens had to be content with the number two spot grossing a further £2.8 million having been number one for just one week.

Zac Efron’s 17 Again, which sees him move away from the musical, was another new entry at number three. The film pairs Efron with Matthew Perry as a thirty seven year old who finds he is has returned to the age of seventeen for a second chance.

The Boat That Rocked dropped two places from two to four while Nicolas Cage’s Knowing rounded off the top five.

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s new Disney movie Race to Witch Mountain could only manage the number six spot while Dragonball Evolution was another new entry at number eight.

1. The Fast and Furious -  £4,928,784
2. Monsters vs. Aliens -  £2,827,416
3. 17 Again - £2,564,102
4. The Boat That Rocked - £965,390
5. Knowing - £619,376
6. Race to Witch Mountain -  £581,250
7. Marley & Me - £470,127
8. Dragonball Evolution - £436,224
9. The Haunting in Connecticut - £380,275
10. Paul Blart: Mall Cop - £233,972