$1 billion Pirate!
The pirates are popular and Disney will be very happy about this for sure, especially when they see the $ sign with a big number behind it. With the movie released worldwide the $1 Billion target is getting closer, but will be reached very soon as the latest number is $963.2 million. Not to bad for a movie filled with naughty people. With figures like that and Johnny Depp already mentioned that he would like to make more pirate movies there is a big chances we will get more after the 3rd one. They would not let a chance like that slip true their fingers… would they?
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” the foreign box office champ for the past eight weekends, has helped Walt Disney Co. pass the $1 billion mark overseas for a 12th consecutive year.
You can find more info on the Reuters site: “Pirates” propels Disney to $1 billion overseas
August 30th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
Pirates certainly DO seem to be universally popular right now. You can’t seem to go anywhere without finding them in some shape or other. We are just back from a mega-trip across part of the USA, including Pennsylvania, Virgina, West Virgina, Ohio and Florida (plus a Caribbean cruise for good measure!), and found mention of them almost everywhere. The highlights? The Pirates! section of the magnificent Mariners’ Museum at Newport News in Virginia; the pirates playtime aboard the Carnival Elation cruise ship (which kept 2 of our boys occupied for hours!) and Redbeard the Pirate, an ‘authentic’ pirate who also appears at the Tradewinds Resort in St Pete Beach, Florida, and lives his whole life in pirate style (albeit without the pillage and plunder, we presume!).
We will post more reports of all this in due course once we have caught our breath (and baled out after Tropical Strom Ernesto, which is currently dumping huge amounts of rain on us in Florida!). But Andy is pretty much spot on - the Pirates film franchise has massive worldwide appeal, and there should be nothing stopping another 2 or even 3 more episodes before it (inevitably) runs out of steam.
August 31st, 2006 at 4:57 pm
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