New Opening Day Record

According to estimates from Box Office Mojo, Disney's sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has broken the opening day and highest-grossing day box office records of 2005's Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith ($50 million), earning an estimated $55.5 million on its first Friday.

When i first saw trailers for the first POTC i woulda never imagined it was gonna be this freaking huge. Guess theres way more closet pirates out there than disney ever could have imagined. Guess this will give spider man 3 a new goal to beat. Actually is spiderman 3 or potc 3 coming out first?

Saw it coming a mile away, personally. Guess you can chalk it up to Depp/Bloom fangirls and their collective allowances. Better this than that godawful "Superman" movie, which seems to have come and gone.

Wow, that's a little surprising. I know the 1st is huge among people here but I didn't know people would be so wept away with it. I enjoyed the first one but got sick of the notion of the 2nd because of the way people were going on about it. However, after seeing the trailer a while ago I must say it's renewed some sort of urge to go see this one.

Originally posted by C-Dic
Saw it coming a mile away, personally. Guess you can chalk it up to Depp/Bloom fangirls and their collective allowances. Better this than that godawful "Superman" movie, which seems to have come and gone.

i figured the second one would be huge, i was more caught off gaurd by the first, but after it i figured 2 would be the biggest movie of this summer.

Everyone, let's act surprised.

Not suprised, the showing I saw was sold out.

I too, saw this coming. Although what grabbed my attention was Davey Jones.

I'll be seeing it this evening.

I went to go see it the other night and it was sold out..

well this was about a given since it broke the opening day record, it broke the opening weekend record as well. (although starwars had the biggest day, and spiderman the weekend so i guess it wasnt totaly a given)

Pirates Breaks Opening Weekend Record!
Source: Box Office Mojo
July 9, 2006

The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Be sure to check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office.

Walt Disney Pictures' highly-anticipated Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Bill Nighy, broke Spider-Man's ($114.8 million) four-year-old opening weekend record with a massive $132 million from 4,133 theaters, the fourth-widest release ever. The movie made $55.5 million on Friday (the biggest single day and opening day in box office history, surpassing Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith ($50 million)), $44.7 million on Saturday (the fifth-biggest single day) and $31.8 million on Sunday, for an average of $31,944 per theater for the weekend. If estimates hold, this means that "Dead Man's Chest" crossed the $100 million mark in two days, which has never been done before - the previous fastest time was three days. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski, the movie cost about $225 million to make. The third installment, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, hits theaters on May 25, 2007.

I probably won't see this one until DVD, anyway. I tried to watch the first one on three seperate occasions, and it just bored me to tears.

I just got back from the 1:30.

It was awesome. Great improvement from the first. Davey Jones > Gollum.

This movie can be compared with 'Empire Strikes Back' easily. ✅

This is all in my opinion.

yea ive heard those comparisons with Sparrow as Solo, elizabeth as Leia and Will as Luke. hell even the pearl as the falcon. I guess the grand sum of his rag tag crew can be Chewy?

Originally posted by forumcrew
yea ive heard those comparisons with Sparrow as Solo, elizabeth as Leia and Will as Luke. hell even the pearl as the falcon. I guess the grand sum of his rag tag crew can be Chewy?

I'd make a list, but I don't want to spoil it.

Go see for yourself. 😊

Originally posted by forumcrew
yea ive heard those comparisons with Sparrow as Solo, elizabeth as Leia and Will as Luke. hell even the pearl as the falcon. I guess the grand sum of his rag tag crew can be Chewy?

The two greedy guys (you know, the friends where one always loses his eye) provide a comic relief interaction comparable to R2D2 and C3PO as well.

Although, I don't think this movie was anywhere in the league of SW:TESB

Originally posted by Dusty
I'd make a list, but I don't want to spoil it.

Go see for yourself. 😊

yea i saw the movie last week i know some of the others but they would be spoiler like.

and ya this isnt on the same level as TESB at all but it does follow a similar formula, but i doubt they really tried to model it like star wars.

I just came from the theater. and its showings are still selling out.

Damn!

'Yo ho, yo ho. A pirate's life for… everyone.

Or so it seems after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest plundered the record books with an estimated $132 million opening weekend, swatting Spider-Man's long standing $114.8 million milestone atop the all time chart.

Buena Vista's swarthy sequel marauded over 8,500 screens at 4,133 sites—the third widest debut ever—compared to Spider-Man's 7,500 screens at 3,615 sites, though Pirates' estimated 20 million admissions out-paced Spidey by only a hair.

Pirates pilfered a trove of records, but the key ones, in addition to opening weekend, were biggest single and opening day and fastest to $100 million. On Friday, Dead Man's Chest raked in $55.5 million (including $9 million's worth of 2,100 midnight showings), eclipsing Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith's $50 million and grossing more in one day than its predecessor, The Curse of the Black Pearl, did in its entire opening weekend. Dead Man's Chest also became the first picture to cross the century mark in two days flat.

That rare crowd pleaser, The Curse of the Black Pearl made Dead Man's Chest the most anticipated picture of 2006. For decades, audiences had been averse to pirate movies—many notorious flops belonged to the genre, including Cutthroat Island and Pirates—but Buena Vista gambled three years ago with a costly movie based on the famous Disneyland attraction. Curse stood out with a mixture of swashbuckling adventure, humor, horror and Johnny Depp's characterization of rapscallion Jack Sparrow, and it ultimately grossed $305.4 million. With Dead Man's Chest, Buena Vista's marketing maintained the spirit of the original.

The third Pirates picture, At World's End, which was in production simultaneously with Dead Man's Chest in the tradition of the Back to the Future and Matrix sequels, will set sail on May 25 of next year. Combined, the Pirates sequels reportedly will cost $450 million to produce.

Powered by Pirates, the weekend as a whole marked the first time a top 12 has grossed more than $200 million. Overall business was up nearly 50 percent over the same weekend last year when Fantastic Four debuted on top.

Last weekend's high flyer, Superman Returns, was sacked in its second outing, plunging 58 percent. Cut down by Pirates, mixed word-of-mouth and the front-loadedness of the superhero genre, Warner Bros.' franchise resurrection earned an estimated $21.9 million for $141.7 million in 12 days—the picture's IMAX theaters, though, were down 27 percent and accounted for ten percent of the weekend gross. By comparison, Warner's previous revival, Batman Begins, descended 43 percent to $27.6 million in its second weekend, albeit opposite far less imposing competition."

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Bad news to me in some ways...

Wow pirates has really outdone itself

i havn't seen either of them, but after the press hype that followed the first one i was pretty sure the second would be a hit, irrelevant of how good it actually is. i do like depp however, so i'll check them out at some point.

am i the only one that thinks orlando bloom has only one facial expression, i always though Nic Cage had the most limited range of emotions...maybe Keanu Reeves (sp?)