Pirates Reaches Massive $923.8M Worldwide

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest easily won its seventh straight weekend at the international box office with $25.5 million at 6,222 playdates in 51 markets, reports Variety.

The seventh victory, tying the record set by Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003, drove the sequel's foreign total to $522.7 million and the worldwide total to $923.8 million -- sixth place on the list just behind Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, at $924.3 million, and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, at $926.3 million.

"Dead Man's Chest" soon will be challenging Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the No. 3 slot at $969 million combined. And with Greece and Italy still to open, "Dead Man's Chest" has a decent shot at becoming the third film after Titanic (with $1.8 billion) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.1 billion) to gross more than a billion dollars worldwide.

"Dead Man's Chest" will soon pass the foreign total for The Da Vinci Code at $532 million.

source: Variety
published on: August 21, 2006
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