DEAD MAN'S CHEST reclaims #1 spot in overseas box office
September 17, 2006
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Posted by Part-Time Poet
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST reclaimed the #1 position on the international box office charts this weekend, thanks to a record-breaking opening in Italy, where it earned a sensational $12.8 million . . . or about double the opening box office for THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL. DEAD MAN’S CHEST has been #1 overseas for 10 of the past 11 weeks and has earned $612.5 million in total overseas boxoffice.
Captain Jack Sparrow’s second adventure now ranks fifth in a group of only six films ever to have earned more than $600 million in overseas admissions, and its distributor, Buena Vista International, believes that DEAD MAN’S CHEST will surpass the #4 film, HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, with an international gross of $614.7 million, by next weekend. The total box office for DEAD MAN’S CHEST now stands at $1.03 billion.
Thanks to FANtasticJD and DeepinDepp for sharing the box office news–you can read the full story on the Zone’s News & Views forum.
Here’s some good news for the patient Italian fans, who endured an 11-week wait for DEAD MAN’S CHEST to open in their homeland; there will be no waiting for AT WORLD’S END, which is scheduled to open worldwide on the weekend of May 25, 2007.
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