Can someone PLEASE tell me what is so good about Pirates of the Crap-a-being?
This flick has made $260 million dollars in 10 days.

Pirates of the Caribbean plunders $62.2 million US more in box-office loot
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at 15:00 on July 16, 2006, EST.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pirates of the Caribbean is looking more like Treasure Island.

Already a record-shattering blockbuster, Johnny Depp's sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest dug up $62.2 million US in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $258.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The movie has quickly become the year's top-grossing film, rocketing past X-Men: The Last Stand, which has taken in $232 million in eight weeks.

"It's really fun when you're riding a comet like this," said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney, which based the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on its theme park attraction. "This thing is just unbelievable. It creates its own wake."

Sony's Little Man, the Wayans brothers' slapstick farce about a pint-size thief masquerading as a baby, opened as the No. 2 movie with $21.7 million. The tale stars Shawn and Marlon Wayans, who co-wrote it with brother Keenen Ivory Wayans, the director.

Universal's comedy You, Me and Dupree, starring Owen Wilson as a houseguest causing chaos for a buddy and his new bride (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson), debuted at No. 3 with $21.3 million.

Hollywood's business dipped for the first time in two months. After eight straight weekends of rising revenues, overall receipts totalled $156 million, down five per cent from the same weekend last year, when Depp also was at the top of the box office with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Still, the second weekend gross for Dead Man's Chest topped the debut of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened with $56.2 million. Dead Man's Chest had the third-best second weekend ever, behind Shrek 2 ($72.2 million) and Spider-Man ($71.4 million).

By next weekend, Dead Man's Chest should climb past the $305 million domestic total rung up by its predecessor, 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Disney's Viane said.

Dead Man's Chest debuted with $135.6 million over the opening weekend, beating the previous record of $114.8 million set by Spider-Man in 2002.

Ending with a cliffhanger, Dead Man's Chest will be closely followed by a third Pirates movie due out next May, with Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and other co-stars on a voyage to rescue Depp's rakish pirate Capt. Jack Sparrow.

"Huge expectations. Pirates 2 is maybe the toughest act in box-office history to follow," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. "Pirates 3 is the definition of a predestined blockbuster."

After a strong start in narrow release the previous weekend, Warner Independent's sci-fi drug-addiction tale A Scanner Darkly expanded to more theatres and broke into the top 10 with $1.2 million. The movie, featuring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey Jr., was shot in live action then painted over with digital animation.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, $62.2 million.

2. Little Man, $21.7 million.

3. You, Me and Dupree, $21.3 million.

4. Superman Returns, $11.6 million.

5. The Devil Wears Prada, $10.45 million.

6. Cars, $7.5 million.

7. Click, $7 million.

8. The Lake House, $1.6 million.

9. Nacho Libre, $1.5 million.

10. A Scanner Darkly, $1.2 million.


©The Canadian Press, 2006

Graycap23 said:

Pish-posh!!!! U'll see....when the trilogy (inevitable, u know!!) is complete, Dead Man's Chest will be equated with Empire of the 1st Star Wars trilogy,....

I don't get it. What's so good about this movie?

Graycap23 said:

JOHNNY DEPP= HOTTEST MAN ON PLANET!!!!!

Graycap23 said:

What do you mean?

It's funny and exciting. Case closed.

Graycap23 said:

Watching Johnny Depp channel Keith Richards...

reneGade20 said:

It's already better than Star Wars.

kidelrich said:

I go way back with JD but this movie only exist 2 get u to part III.

Graycap23 said:

I don't have a problem with that. Serialized entertainment has been around for centuries. It's still a great film.
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I'm with everyone else, Depp is the cat's pj's in this film. That is all that is required - to hell with the plot and everyone else.

sj1600 said:

Damn.....JD has gone a LONG way since is 21 jumpstreet days. I love the guys acting skills but $260m in 10 days? WOW.

Graycap23 said:

I know, it must be quite ironic for him that he has done some serious work and had much less financial recognition. I was watching Edward Scissor Hands the other day and it still upsets me - he is fantastic. I know what your saying, though.

sj1600 said:

Who needs a plot??



I have been in love with him since 21 Jump Street

Iggykatt said:

Couldn't you just throw him to the ground?

Graycap23 said:

I doubt that anyone else in the role of CPT Jack Sparrow could pull it off as well as JD.....and as such, $260m is in the bag....and of course this is just the bridge to Part III cuz Disney is famous for beating the horse until its dead....which with this series isn't a bad thing.....

sj1600 said:

HELL YEAH!

He is the Hotness-squared.

100MPH said:

Love it!! Looks like Chuck Norris dressed as a pirate.

Iggykatt said:

You ever saw him in those Looney Toons cartoon-movies ?



Bugs & Daffy drive the 2-easy-2-fuck-up Sam The Pirate completely insane !

100MPH said:

What is sad...I still watch them. I was raised on Looney Tunes. Have the DVD collection to prove it

The sweet bonnie lasses can't resist a pirate, love.

Iggykatt said:

The best slapstick-cartoons i've ever seen .
A memorable and weirdest moment is when Bugs is falling during a dance he's doing on a classic opera , He suddenly falls on the ground with his face green from being ill . Everybody gathers around him to check him out . Then in a swoosh , he stands up , pulls the green shade from his face , which has now become some lettuce leafs which form a ballet-skirt with which Bugz quickly continues to dance to eventually disappear @ the horizon
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reneGade20 said:

Yep.

I enjoyed Pirates 1 & 2. Looking forward to Pirates 3

reneGade20 said:

Maybe it is inevitable cuz they sorta said it was a trilogy ????

Johnny Depp...what's up with the hair in blow..you are so not a blonde

purplerein said:

Don't do that!!!


You almost killed me there, and now I'll have to try and go to sleep, that won't work with that picture on my retinal (whatever this eyething is called )

I dated a pirate once, he smelled like a sea dawg