Movie Info
Genre :
Adventure, Action, ComedyRelease Date :
July 07, 2006Director :
Gore VerbinskiStarring :
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgard, Naomie Harris, Alex Norton, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy, Geoffrey Rush, Jonathan Pryce
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The 2007 MTV Movie Awards Winners Named
June 04, 2007 11:06:14Summer sure is still a great period to celebrate an award event and for young generation of moviegoers, it's undoubtedly the time to once again get to know who and what come out as the best at MTV Movie Awards this year, held Sunday, June 3 at Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre.
Taking the spotlight during the ceremony was Walt Disney Pictures' "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" which not only got deemed Best Movie, but also won its lead star Johnny Depp the Best Performance honor. However, the big winner turned out to be Sacha Baron Cohen as the British actor triumphantly swept two golden popcorns in Best Comedic Performance for "Borat" and Best Kiss for "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby", the latter being shared with fellow funnyman Will Ferrell.
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Winners Named for Movie Slots of the 20th Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
April 02, 2007 11:04:15Back for the twentieth time this year, the Hollywood's messiest, most raucous award celebration Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards announced on March 31, 2007 the list of honorees for the film category based on personal picks of the TV network's viewers.
Deemed the Favorite Movie is "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" with dancing penguin romp "Happy Feet" being named the Favorite Animated Movie, the latter beating out tough contenders that included "Cars" and "Open Season."
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Nominees Revealed for The 20th Annual Kids' Choice Awards' Movie Slots
March 15, 2007 03:03:26An award event in which winners are voted by the children who watch Nickelodeon cable channel, the Kids' Choice Awards has finally unveiled its lineup of nominees for film categories as it is held for the twentieth time this year.
Competing for the title of Favorite Male Movie Star are four well-known talents of Jack Black, Johnny Depp, Adam Sandler, and Will Smith while those like Halle Berry, Dakota Fanning, Keira Knightley, and Sarah Jessica Parker all scoring in the Female side.
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The 5th Annual VES Awards Winners Revealed
February 13, 2007 10:02:39Dedicated to advance the arts, sciences, and applications of visual effects, the Visual Effects Society on Sunday, February 11 for the fifth time held the annual gala of its VES Awards at the Kodak Grand Ballroom and stretched out honors to those behind the creation of F/X in all areas of entertainment.
Scored tremendous success at the event was "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" as it wonderfully swept six trophies in total, winning those for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture, Best Single Visual Effect of the Year, Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture, Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Motion Picture, Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture, and Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture.
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"Pirates" Assumed to Remain Unbeatable Overseas
September 25, 2006 12:09:23Seems it's still hard enough for others to break "Pirates" domination overseas.
For the eleventh time, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" again takes the lead on the international box office after satisfyingly collected $7.6 million from 36 territories during its weekend run based on studio estimates Sunday, September 24.
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"Pirates" Snatches Back World Reign
September 18, 2006 02:09:19Long live the Pirates. After stumbling to number two last week, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" wonderfully strikes back so soundly that it finally has its way to return to the top spot on the international box office on Sunday, September 17, 2006.
Thanks to a record-setting opening in Italy of $12.8 million, the adventurous flick has successfully garnered an estimated weekend haul of $16.5 million from 42 territories, pushing Disney/Pixar's "Cars" back to number two as the animated picture turns out to score $6.6 million from 27 markets.
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"Pirates" Crosses $1 Billion Mark Overseas
September 11, 2006 11:09:07Turning out as expected, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" finally made its way to strive past $1 billion mark in worldwide box office after impressively collecting a total worldwide income of $1,002.6 billion, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios Dick Cook officially announced on Saturday, September 9, 2006.
Already topped the international box office for nine consecutive weeks, the seafaring tale thus becomes the third big screen feature in the history to accomplish such achievement after the 1997's "Titanic" and 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." "This is truly an historical time for The Walt Disney Studios and a time to celebrate," Cook remarked following the statement. "The film's phenomenal success all over the world proves once again that audiences will vote to come back again and again when presented with great entertainment."
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"Pirates" Close to Score $1 Billion Worldwide
September 04, 2006 04:09:44Keeps moving on increasingly to draw more dollars into its pocket, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is a little bit closer to encounter $1 billion in its total income. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that this second installment of Disney's seafaring tale has satisfyingly added another $11.8 million from 6,681 screens in 49 territories overseas this weekend, making its total gross to $991.9 million worldwide.
With this superb result, "Dead Man's Chest" therefore has taken over the position secured by "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" on the all-time worldwide box-office chart and so pushes the Warner Bros.' flick to the fourth place of the list.
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Top 10 Moneymaking Movies of Summer 2006
August 31, 2006 01:08:39This summer really belongs to Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Fantastically collecting $407.5 million on domestic box office up to Sunday, August 27, the company's seafaring sequel has come out as the top moneymaker of this beach season according to stats released Tuesday, August 29 by the box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations.
Though it still has one more weekend to go at the summer box office, the flick's position on the first spot of the list will remain unshakable for it has scored far beyond the sum garnered by Disney/Pixar's "Cars" which firmly takes the second rank with a $240.6 million gross. Rounding up the top three is the third installment of X-Men franchise, "X-Men: The Last Stand" following its success in garnering $234.2 million to its pocket.
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"Pirates" Continues Global Domination
August 28, 2006 04:08:51Seems it's indeed hard to overthrow its reign over the sea. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" turns out to extend its rule on the weekend foreign box office for the eighth time. The Disney's seafaring sequel has successfully garnered an estimated $17.8 million from 48 territories to again claim its place on the top spot of the list, altogether collecting $554.7 million internationally to make up the global total of $962.3 million.
Keeps striving, the flick continues strongly with scoring $3.2 million in France, $2.3 million in Germany, $2.2 million in Japan, and $2.1 million in Spain while superbly opening at reportedly $2.6 million in Greece. With this sweet result, expectation thereby is high on the chance of the picture to surpass within a week the global gross of $976.5 million that "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has gained to replace it as the third-biggest worldwide box office hit of all time.
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The 2006 Teen Choice Awards Winners
August 22, 2006 09:08:46The adventure, action, comedy "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" was the big winner at this year Teen Choice Awards, held Sunday August 20th in Los Angeles.
Nabbing seven awards all at once, the highly anticipated movie won the categories of Choice Movie, Action Adventure; Choice Movie Actor, Drama/Action Adventure for Johnny Depp; Choice Rumble; Choice Drama / Action: Adventure Movie of the Summer; Choice Sleazebag for Bill Nighy; Choice Hissy Fit and also Choice Scream which both were given to Keira Knightley.
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Dead Man's Chest Climbs to the 6th Place of All Time Worldwide Chart
August 21, 2006 02:08:20Walt Disney has its biggest release ever in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" after its previous record holder 2003's "Finding Nemo." With 7th weekend estimate of $25.5 million from 51 territories, "Dead Man's Chest" pushed its international gross to $522.7 million. That's make this flick the leading on the foreign box office chart.
On the chart of worldwide release of all time, Dead Man's Chest has placed itself at the sixth place under 1999's "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" with worldwide total stands at $923.8 million.
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"Pirates" Extends Its Rule Overseas
August 14, 2006 02:08:40Looks like it is still hard to beat "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" in the weekend overseas box office. Drawing an estimated $44 million from about 8,500 screens in 48 markets, this adventurous flick once again beats its competitor to stay firmly on the top of the list for the sixth consecutive weekend. With this result, the Walt Disney Co. smash thus has scored an overseas box-office total to date of $463 million and $855 million worldwide and so, jumps to the 12th rank on the all-time box-office hit list.
The biggest contribution to the picture's weekend tally came from its Spain opening which collected $11.5 million from 980 screens. Great outcome was also gained in France where it pulled an estimated $8.5 million in its second weekend while it managed to earn $5.6 million and $2.3 million in Germany and U.K, respectively.
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Top 10 Films in the Box Office
July 24, 2006 09:07:07The Disney sequel "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" remains on the top position in the box office this weekend, marking the flick's third straight weekend to be the number one movie, taking in $35 million in ticket sales with its total reaching for $321.7 million after just 17 days being released in the worldwide theaters.
This really is a great attainment compared to its predecessor, the 2003's "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," which domestic total reached $305 million. Meanwhile, Sony's family film "Monster House", debuts at No. 2 with $23 million, just one place ahead of M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water," taking in $18.2 million.
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The North American Box Office's Top 10 Final Figures
July 17, 2006 10:07:19The estimated ticket sales at the North American box office for July 14-16 period shows the dominance of the "Pirates". The adventure, action, comedy flick, tentatively titled "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", taking in another $62.2 million in ticket sales, thus rules the movie chart for a second weekend.
On top of that attainment, the movie also 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, with the "Pirates" sequel raising its 10-day total to $258.2 million. Meanwhile, The Wayans brothers comedy "Little Man" claims the 2nd spot with about $21.7 million, just one place ahead of "You, Me and Dupree" at 3rd with $21.3 million.
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The Top 10 Weekend Movies
July 10, 2006 09:07:05The Walt Disney Pictures sequel of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" lands on the top position in North America box office, taking in a record $132 million in its first three days, according to studio estimates Sunday July 9th. Such amount obviously makes the flick scores the record for best three-day opening of all time. That attainment, moreover, leads the highly anticipated movie to beat the record made by the 2002's "Spider-Man," which took in $114.8 million in its first weekend.
Back then to the Top 10 weekend movies, there we have "Superman Returns" at 2nd position with $21.8 million, followed after by "The Devil Wears Prada" at 3rd with $15.6 million and "Click" at No. 4 taking in $12 million. In the meantime, Disney's "Cars" taking in another $10.3 million to be at No. 5, just one place ahead of "Nacho Libre" at No. 6 scoring $3.3 million.
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"Pirates" Expected to Surpass "Spider-Man" in Weekend-Opening Record
July 08, 2006 12:07:42As one of the highly anticipated sequels of this year, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", is coming to the surface now, talks over its capability to gain tremendous amount of cash really has become one hot topic to discuss about. According to industry predictions, the movie sure has great potentiality to beat "Spider-Man" in breaking the record for the best weekend opening ever while BoxOfficeMojo.com exec Brandon Gray, even predicts that the movie would draw $117 million from the theatres. For information, the superhero flick has successfully garnered $114.8 million when released in 2002 and since then has held the record with "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" followed behind.
The predictions could as well turn out to be right for online ticket retailer Fandango has confirmed that the picture had already created a new record for tickets sold the day before an opening, selling at an average rate of seven per second and represented 91 percent of all its sales on Thursday, June 6. Supported by the fact that the film rolls in 4,133 theaters this weekend, the third-most in Hollywood history, chance to meet the expectations seems fat enough.
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The Exclusive Live Webcast for the Premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
June 23, 2006 04:06:22It is just the matter of hours towards the premiere of one of this year's highly anticipated movies, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest". The good news is that Disney is collaborating with MSN® Video to also broadcast the premiere on an exclusive live webcast for worldwide audiences to join. The premiere is held at the Disneyland Park on Saturday, June 24, from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. PT. On-line audiences can access the live webcast on MSN.
The MSN "Dish Diva", Taylor Johnson is going to host the live webcast along with a historian from Disneyland and a Disney Imagineer. The hosts will report from different remote locations at the premiere's red carpet. Audiences need not to worry upon the chance of missing interviews, since the webcast also covers interviews on the red carpet with the A-list celebrities. In addition, worldwide audition joining the premiere through the MSN webcast will also enjoy the fun and exciting history of Disney's attraction, which is apparently the movies' inspiration.
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