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Pirates plunders $62m
17/07/2006 11:34 - (SA)
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| A fan poses in front of a Dead Man's Chest poster. (Shizuo Kambayashi, AP) |
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Los Angeles - Pirates of the Caribbean is looking more like Treasure Island.
Already a record-shattering blockbuster, Johnny Depp's sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest dug up $62.2m in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $258.2m, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
The movie has quickly become the year's top-grossing film, rocketing past X-Men: The Last Stand, which has taken in $232m in eight weeks.
"It's really fun when you're riding a comet like this," said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney, which based the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on its theme-park attraction. "This thing is just unbelievable. It creates its own wake."
Sony's Little Man, the Wayans brothers' slapstick farce about a pint-sized thief masquerading as a baby, opened as the No 2 movie with $21.7m. The tale stars Shawn and Marlon Wayans, who co-wrote it with brother Keenen Ivory Wayans, the movie's director.
Universal's comedy You, Me and Dupree, starring Owen Wilson as a houseguest causing chaos for a buddy and his new bride (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson), debuted at No 3 with $21.3m.
By next weekend, Dead Man's Chest should climb past the $305m domestic total rung up by its predecessor, 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Disney's Viane said.
Dead Man's Chest debuted with $135.6m over the opening weekend, beating the previous record of $114.8m set by Spider-Man in 2002.
Dead Man's Chest will be closely followed by a third Pirates movie due out next May, with Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and other co-stars on a voyage to rescue Depp's rakish pirate Captain Jack Sparrow.
- AP
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