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+ "page_snippet": "Pirates of the Caribbean franchise box office earningsAs expected, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales earned first place at the Friday box office. Unfortunately, it missed the low end of expectations with $23.40 million, putting it on pace for a $62 million three-day weekend and a $73 million total opening. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates. Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles. ... It is not a great week for home market releases. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is the biggest release of the week, but it is far from the best. Memorial Day long weekend wasn\u2019t as potent as expected as both new releases struggled. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales led the way with $78.47 million over four days. This marks the third year in a row where no film released on Memorial Day long weekend earned at least $100 million over four days. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales led the way with $78.47 million over four days. This marks the third year in a row where no film released on Memorial Day long weekend earned at least $100 million over four days. I\u2019ve heard some talk that this means it is losing its importance as a long weekend.",
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\n\nIt is not a great week for home market releases. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is the biggest release of the week, but it is far from the best. As for the Pick of the Week contenders, they are all horror themed. Cult of Chucky is surprisingly good, especially for a franchise that\u2019s lasted seven installments. Don't Torture A Duckling is a giallo film, and an important one in its director\u2019s career. Up next is iZombie: Season Three, which is amazing, but it is always on the edge of being canceled. Finally, there's Vampyr: Criterion Collection Blu-ray. In the end, I went with the Don't Torture A Duckling: Special Edition as the Pick of the Week. Meanwhile, Goon: Last of the EnforcersBlu-ray Combo Pack earned Puck of the Week, for the best Canadian release. \n\nMore...\n
\n\nI think it is a really good week on the home market. The biggest release of the week is Wonder Woman, which is also one of the best wide releases of the year. The extras are strong and the Blu-ray Combo Pack / 3D Combo Pack are Pick of the Week contenders. It isn\u2019t the winner, as The Big Sick is one of the best movies I\u2019ve seen all year and the DVD / Blu-ray Combo Pack is loaded with extras. \n\nMore...\n
\nWith July 4 falling on a Tuesday this year, this is less a holiday weekend, and more the beginning of a holiday week, and it\u2019s bookended by new releases from two of the industry\u2019s most reliable franchises. Despicable Me 3 starts off festivities this weekend with a solid-but-unspectacular $75.4 million from a record-setting 4,529 theaters. Breaking The Twilight Saga: Eclipse\u2019s record for widest opening weekend of all time is no small feat for Universal, but it\u2019s an ominous sign for the franchise that the only film to open in close to this number of theaters and pull in similar numbers at the box office was Shrek Forever After, which opened with $70.8 million in 4,359 theaters back in 2010. That was the last Shrek movie, and this might be a good time for Gru to call it a day.\nMore...\n
\nA tepid $45.3 million Friday-to-Sunday domestic weekend for Transformers: The Last Knight is pretty much unmitigated bad news for Paramount Pictures. The studio is in desperate need of a hit, and the Transformers franchise is by far their biggest property. Even including the film\u2019s grosses from Wednesday and Thursday, its $69 million debut is barely in the top ten for the year so far, and poor reviews and a B+ CinemaScore mean that it won\u2019t have significant legs, even with a bit of help from the upcoming July 4 weekend. So all eyes are going to be on its overseas performance.\nMore...\n
\nAs anticipated, Cars 3 is cruising to the top of the box office chart this weekend, with Disney predicting a weekend of $53.547 million, as of Sunday morning. While that\u2019s a very respectable figure in anyone\u2019s book (and continues Disney\u2019s domination at the box office this year), it\u2019s down markedly from Cars 2\u2019s $66.1 million opening weekend in 2011, and points towards a final domestic box office around $150 million. If that proves to be the case, it\u2019ll be the second-worst performer ever for Pixar, beating only The Good Dinosaur. Talk of a decline at Pixar is over-blown, in my opinion, but this is still a so-so result by their high standards.\nMore...\n
\n\nThe Mummy debuted in first place on the international chart with $140.76 million on 19,078 screens in 63 markets. The film\u2019s biggest market was China, no surprise there. It earned $52.4 million on 7,364 screens, which is better than Wonder Woman\u2019s opening there last weekend. The film did even better in South Korea, relatively speaking, with an opening weekend of $8.61 million on 1,254 screens over the weekend for a total opening of $17.80 million. This includes a record for opening day in that market of $6.6 million, while the total opening was the best for Universal. On the downside, the film struggled in the U.K. earning second place with $4.2 million in 563 theaters. That\u2019s weaker than its performance here, relative to the size of the two markets. Furthermore, the film only has two major markets left to open in, France and Japan, while its reviews will likely really hurt its legs. It will earn enough worldwide to pay for its production budget, assuming the $125 million reports are accurate. \n\nMore...\n
\n\nThe weekend box office had a few surprises, some positive and some negative. On the positive side, Wonder Woman had the best hold for a major super hero movie since Spider-Man and is on pace for $340 million to $375 million. On the negative side were all three new releases. The Mummy finished on the low side of already low expectations, while It Comes At Night pleased critics, but not moviegoers. Meanwhile, Megan Leavey missed the Mendoza Line. Overall, the box office fell 22% from last weekend to $144 million. This is 5.7% lower than this weekend last year. Fortunately, since this time last week, 2017 expanded its lead over 2016 by about $20 million at $4.90 billion to $4.73 billion. We are almost halfway through the year, so a $175 million / 3.7% lead is solid. It isn\u2019t impossible for that lead to evaporate, but it is enough to be cautiously optimistic about the final tally. \n\nMore...\n
\nThere are precious few crumbs of comfort to be found from Universal\u2019s launch of The Mummy this weekend. The studio is projecting a $32.2 million opening this weekend from 4,035 theaters. That will be a fairly distant second to Wonder Woman, which is expected to earn about $57.1 million. Even the bright news\u2014that this is Tom Cruise\u2019s biggest global opening weekend\u2014comes with an asterisk.\nMore...\n
\n\nLast weekend was a great one at the box office with Wonder Woman earning over $100 million during its opening. This weekend isn\u2019t expected to be nearly as potent. The biggest new release is The Mummy, which is supposed to be the start of the Dark Universe, but its reviews suggest this combined universe will be short-lived. It Comes At Night could become A24\u2019s biggest hit, although that\u2019s not a particularly high bar. Finally there\u2019s Megan Leavey. It isn\u2019t expected to open truly wide, but it only needs about $2 million to reach the top ten. This weekend last year was similar in terms of box office strength. The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist led the way with barely more than $40 million, while there were two other new releases to top $20 million. This year\u2019s crop of new films is nowhere near as good as that; however, the holdovers should make up the difference leaving 2017 ahead in the year-over-year comparison. \n\nMore...\n
\n\nWonder Woman opened in first place on the international chart with $122.5 million in 55 markets for a global opening weekend of $225.8 million. Unsurprisingly, the film\u2019s biggest market was China, where it opened in first place with $38.96 million. This is about $10 million less than Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 opened with recently, but then again, that was a sequel, so it is not an entirely fair comparison. Should Wonder Woman have better legs there, then it could still hit $100 million in that market. Other big markets for the movie include South Korea, where it earned $6.40 million on 1,034 screens over the weekend for a total opening of $8.41 million. This is better than Suicide Squad managed in that market, but behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Brazil and Mexico were close behind with $8.3 million and $8.22 million respectively. This is better than Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, but not as good as BvS or Suicide Squad. On the other hand, the film struggled somewhat in the U.K earning $8.00 million in 599 screens, which was still enough for first place. It only managed second place in Russia with $3.99 million on 1,194 screens. Overall, the studio should be happy with these results and I bet there\u2019s a sequel already in early stages of development. \n\nMore...\n
\n\nThe overall box office bounced back after a weak Memorial Day thanks to two critically acclaimed movies. Wonder Woman led the way with $103.25 million, while Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie was way back with $23.85 million. Overall, the weekend box office pulled in $185 million, which is 31% more than last weekend. It is also 37% more than the same weekend last year. This helped 2017\u2019s lead over 2016 grow by nearly a full percentage point to 3.5% at $4.69 billion to $4.52 billion. \n\nMore...\n
\n\nIt\u2019s the first weekend of June and it looks like it could be a monster weekend. Wonder Woman could earn over $100 million during the weekend, while Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is hoping to hit $100 million in total. Both have a great chance of getting there. Add in some solid holdovers and this weekend should earn close to $200 million. By comparison, this weekend last year was nowhere near as strong with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows earning first place with just $35.32 million. Wonder Woman will earn more than that opening day. There\u2019s a chance Wonder Woman will earn more over the weekend than the top five earned this weekend last year. \n\nMore...\n
\n\nMemorial Day long weekend wasn\u2019t as potent as expected as both new releases struggled. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales led the way with $78.47 million over four days. This marks the third year in a row where no film released on Memorial Day long weekend earned at least $100 million over four days. I\u2019ve heard some talk that this means it is losing its importance as a long weekend. However, I think the actual answer is much simpler, as it is also the third weekend in a row where no wide releases have earned overall positive reviews. I don\u2019t think the box office power of Memorial Day has dropped since X-Men: Days of Future Past came out. I just think the quality of films has dropped since then. Speaking of lack of quality, Baywatch was DOA earning just $27.71 million over five days and unlike Dead Men Tell No Tales, it likely won\u2019t do significantly better internationally. Despite both new releases struggling, the holiday helped the overall box office grow 14% from last weekend to $141 million. Unfortunately, this was 14% lower than the same weekend last year. 2017 still maintains its lead over 2016, but that lead as slipped to 2.6% or $110 million at $4.46 billion to $4.35 billion. \n\nMore...\n
\nPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is dominating proceedings at the box office this weekend, with Disney projecting an opening of $62.2 million for three days, and $76.6 million over the complete Memorial Day holiday weekend. As I\u2019ve said a few times this year, any other studio would kill for numbers like those, but this marks the third straight decline in the franchise\u2019s fortunes. Dead Man\u2019s Chest had the best opening for any Pirates film, with $135.6 million in 2006; At World\u2019s End did $114.7 million over Memorial Day weekend in 2007; and then On Stranger Tides delivered a $90.2-million debut, also over Memorial Day weekend in 2011. With this kind of start, Dead Men will struggle to deliver $200 million domestically, although its international performance will help make up the numbers.\nMore...\n
\n\nAs expected, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales earned first place at the Friday box office. Unfortunately, it missed the low end of expectations with $23.40 million, putting it on pace for a $62 million three-day weekend and a $73 million total opening. The film\u2019s reviews are just 32% positive, putting it in a tie with On Stranger Tides for worst in the franchise. On the other hand, the film earned an A minus from CinemaScore compared to a B plus for the previous installment, so that should help its legs a little. That said, the film cost $230 million to make, so unless it is a monster hit at the international box office, there\u2019s little hope the sequel teased in the end credits will happen. \n\nMore...\n
\n\nIt\u2019s Memorial Day long weekend, which is historically one of the best long weekends at the box office all year. However, this year the two new releases are far from the best. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has the worst reviews in the franchise and its domestic box office will likely be the same. Sadly, Baywatch\u2019s reviews are even worse. That said, they should still finish one-two over the weekend, while Alien: Covenant and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 will be in a race for third place. It likely won\u2019t be close. Meanwhile, this weekend last year, X-Men: Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass opened one-two during the weekend with results that are similar to what Dead Men Tell No Tales / Baywatch are expected to make. I don\u2019t know if 2017 will win in the year-over-year comparison, but it should be close. \n\nMore...\n
\n\nApril is over and thank god for that. The Fate of the Furious is currently the only film that was better than a midlevel hit, while Going in Style might end up being the second-biggest release of the month. On the low end, there were seven films on last month\u2019s list that didn\u2019t even manage to open in truly wide release (2,000 or more theaters). Fortunately, May looks a lot brighter. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 should dominate the chart and get the month off to a fast start. Furthermore, every week there\u2019s at least one film with a reasonable chance of earning $100 million domestically. Additionally, last May wasn\u2019t particularly strong, so that should help 2017 overall. Granted, Captain America: Civil War earned more than $400 million, so the month got off to a fast start, but films struggled the rest of the way. The second-biggest film was X-Men: Apocalypse at just $155 million, while only one other movie, The Angry Birds Movie, earned more than $100 million. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 should at least be competitive with Captain America: Civil War, allowing 2017 to win thanks to its superior depth. \n\nMore...\n
\r\n\r\nThere's a large number of limited releases, including a few that are earning good reviews and strong buzz. One of these is The Drop, but it is opening in too many theaters and I think that will hurt it at the box office. If I were to guess, The Skeleton Twins will be the biggest hit on this week's list. \r\n\r\nMore...\n
\r\nOn Tuesday we launched The Numbers Bankability Index, a new service to help assess the value that different people bring to the industry, from actors and actresses to directors, screenwriters, producers, and anyone else involved in the creative process of making a movie. In this article, I'll look more deeply into how the Index is compiled, and how we use the tools behind it to analyze questions about people in movies.\r\n
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\r\nLast week I unveiled our new People Records section and talked about some of top performers across different types of acting, from the blockbusting superstars to the unsung heroes, to the cameo kings and queens. We've added some more charts to the record section this week, this time covering technical roles, and once more there's a lot of data to be mined.\r\nMore...\n
\r\n\r\nFor the most part, June was a really strong month at the box office with nearly every film either matching expectations, or at least coming close enough to call it a victory. Looking forward, there are a dozen films opening wide in July, more or less. One of them, The Smurfs 2, is opening on a Wednesday, so I'm going to hold off talking about that movie till the August preview. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain is opening in less than 1000 theaters, but it has a shot at reaching the top ten during its opening weekend. If we include both of them, there are twelve films, but I think it is better to stick with the ten truly wide, truly July openings. Of these, Despicable Me 2 is clearly going to be the biggest hit at the box office. It could become the second biggest hit of the year so far. It is not the only film that could be a $100 million hit. In fact, there are six films opening in July that I think have a better than 50% chance of reaching that level. There is currently only one film that I think won't at least become a midlevel hit. By comparison in 2012, there were three $100 million movies, led by The Dark Knight Rises, but the rest of the new releases struggled. There's no chance any movie opening this month will top $400 million, in fact, it is quite possible no film will get to $300 million. That said, 2013 has a lot better depth, so it might come out on top in the end. \r\n\r\nMore...\n
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+ "page_snippet": "Disney's Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales despite its troubles marked the 20th-best box office debut of all time worldwide.Despite any talk of franchise fatigue at the domestic box office, or a splattering from Rotten Tomatoes, the larger story for Disney\u2018s Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is told in its global tally, which as of this morning has a worldwide start of $326 million, the 20th-best worldwide debut of all time. According to Deadline film finance sources, the consensus is that Pirates 5 is looking forward to an estimated profit north of $280M after all revenue streams are tabulated. This is based off an industry-projected final global box office haul of $850M. Scroll down to see this weekend\u2019s Memorial Day actual box office figures. Final weekend actuals for Memorial Day weekend, per ComScore \u00b7 1.). Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (DIS), 4,276 theaters / 3-day cume: $62.9M / Per screen average: $$14,729 / 4-day cume: $78.4M / Per screen: $18,353 / Wk 1 \u00b7 2.). The Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (DIS), 3,871 theaters (-476) / 3-day cume: $20.9M / Per screen: $5,401 / 4-day cume: $27.1M / Per screen: $7,024 / Total cume: $340.5M / Wk 4",
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Despite any talk of franchise fatigue at the domestic box office, or a splattering from Rotten Tomatoes, the larger story for Disney‘s Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is told in its global tally, which as of this morning has a worldwide start of $326 million, the 20th-best worldwide debut of all time.
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According to Deadline film finance sources, the consensus is that Pirates 5 is looking forward to an estimated profit north of $280M after all revenue streams are tabulated. This is based off an industry-projected final global box office haul of $850M. Keep in mind, Japan hasn’t opened yet, and that territory delivered the franchise’s best grosses out of any foreign country — re On Stranger Tides ($91M), At World’s End ($91M) and the first movie Curse Of The Black Pearl ($60M). Disney always knew that domestic wasn’t going to be that strong for Dead Men Tell No Tales, especially after On Stranger Tides six years agodelivered only 23% of its $1.045 billion global tally from domestic.
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The added win here for Disney with Pirates 5 is how the $4.05 billion Pirates seriesspurs its theme park and merchandise businesses, something other major studios can’t count on with their franchises. Recently, the Licensing Industry Merchandisers Association attributed the $118 billion made in 2016 movie/entertainment global retail toy revenue to the year-round sale of Star Wars product for The Force Awakens and Rogue One. We currently hear that Pirates Of The Caribbean merchandise revenue is estimated at $65M (some think that number is too low), with Asian venues like Shanghai Disney Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland key drivers.
With these long-in-the-tooth franchises waning sequel by sequel at the domestic B.O. — think Pirates, Transformers, Fast And The Furious — it’s the burgeoning markets and emerging middle classes overseas that enable Hollywood to keep making these tentpoles, even as U.S./Canada audiences arguably lose interest as underscored by their wallets. When building these titles financially, the majors acknowledge that the U.S. represents 4% of the world’s 7.5 billion population.
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With $180.7M over four days, the just-ended Memorial Day weekend was the lowest in two decades, down 42% from the 2013 high of $314.2M. Versus last year, close to $25M was missing from this year’s holiday marketplace thanks to the soft Pirates 5 opening($78.4M over four days) and Baywatch‘s blowout($27.7M over five days). A month ago, both were projected at $90M-$100M and $45M-$50M, respectively in their openings, but when sour Rotten Tomatoes scores hit, it impacted both pics’ estimates.
Some have argued not to lump Pirates 5 and Baywatch in the same sentence in the Memorial Day frame; the latter is bound to lose significantly more money. But the bigger point here is the overall franchise fatigue taking place stateside following last weekend’s $36.1M start for Alien: Covenant (Baywatch, had it worked, would have certainly been a new cinematic series). Wonder Woman, though connected to DC, offers something new and fresh to moviegoers in that it’s arguably the first female comic-book superhero property to work onscreen. The Rotten Tomatoes rating for the Gal Gadot movie is currently at 97% off 64 reviews, and if that score can maintain itself, it could potentially push the pic’s domestic opening to $95M — though Warner Bros still sees it between $65M-$75M.
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In recent years, Disney is the only major studio in town that can win on all fronts with its Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, live action-group and animation labels: beaming A- or higher CinemaScores, awesome B.O. results, and glorious certified ruby red Rotten Tomatoes ratings. Truly, they are the envy of all. However, stateside critics have loathed Pirates since the second installment, with the most recent one registering the lowest at 31% Rotten, and Disney has yet to turn that boat around. Of the five movies, Pirates 5 reps the fourth-best stateside opening. Some attribute the ease here to marketing, others to Johnny Depp and his controversial image which can turn off moms, but the fact is that at the end of this weekend, Disney is yo-ho-ho-ing all the way to the bank.
While box office analysts love to take digs that this summer at $777.9M is down 9% versus last year through its first four weekends, and that Memorial Day was in shambles, overall the theatrical marketplace in the U.S. and Canada this year is healthy, counting $4.4B to date per comScore, 2% ahead of 2016’s banner year which yielded $11.4B.
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1.). Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (DIS), 4,276 theaters / 3-day cume: $62.9M / Per screen average: $$14,729 / 4-day cume: $78.4M / Per screen: $18,353 / Wk 1
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2.). The Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (DIS), 3,871 theaters (-476) / 3-day cume: $20.9M / Per screen: $5,401 / 4-day cume: $27.1M / Per screen: $7,024 / Total cume: $340.5M / Wk 4
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3.). Baywatch (PAR), 3,647 theaters / 3-day cume: $18.5M / Per screen: $5,074/ 4-day cume: $23.1M / Per screen: $6,336 / Total cume: $27.7M (Wednesday bow) / Wk 1
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+ "page_snippet": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Directed by Joachim R\u00f8nning, Espen Sandberg. With Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites. Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle.Watch Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Thomas Robinson Harper On Working With Johnny Depp ... Watch Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Golshifteh Farahani On Her Character 'Shansa' Watch Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Golshifteh Farahani On Her Character 'Shansa' ... Joachim R\u00f8nning, Espen Sandberg: The severed heads in the guillotine basket. ... (at around 1h 3 mins) This film shows the compass being given to Jack by a captain he worked for in his youth as that captain is dying. In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Tia Dalma said he bartered the compass from her. The fifth installment of the Pirates-series is by all means a step up from the fourth. In all film-series, when a sequel is released it's mandatory to compare it to the best one - which in this case arguably everyone agrees is the first one. That may be unfair, but it's the reality. Now. Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge does give us some spectacular moments. 2h 9m | PG-13",
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Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle. They're determined to kill every pirate at sea...notably ... Read allCaptain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle. They're determined to kill every pirate at sea...notably Jack.Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle. They're determined to kill every pirate at sea...notably Jack.
(at around 1h 3 mins) This film shows the compass being given to Jack by a captain he worked for in his youth as that captain is dying. In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Tia Dalma said he bartered the compass from her.
Captain Jack Sparrow: Are you sure we're talking about the same people? He's a cursed eunuch. She's golden-haired, stubborn, pouty lips, neck like a giraffe, and two of those wonderful...
There is a scene at the end of the closing credits: Will wakes up from a vision involving Davy Jones. He assumes this is a nightmare and returns to sleep, but is unaware to a few of Jones' tokens remaining.
The film's IMAX release presented the film open-matte, at an aspect ratio of 1.90:1, meaning there was more picture information visible in the top and bottom of the frame (more picture is opened up at the bottom of the frame due to the common-top method used, resulting in the 2.39 image space appearing at the top) than in normal theaters and on home video.
After watching with very low expectations to "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales", it is hard to understand the legion of haters that write in IMDb. The film is not a masterpiece but is funny, entertaining, with great cast, special effects, screenplay and story. Johnny Depp performs the wolf, drunken and smart Captain Jack Sparrow in the usual funny way. Cinema lovers of fantasy-adventure genre must ignore the bad reviews and question what this kind of people that writes that the movie is not good like to see or if they have difficulties to understand a story with many characters. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Piratas do Caribe: A Vingan\u00e7a de Salazar" ("Pirates of the Caribbean: The Revenge of Salazar")
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The fifth installment in the franchise opened at No. 1 at the domestic box office during what was the slowest Memorial Day Weekend in nearly two decades. In two weekends domestically, the movie has earned $114.6 million. That leaves the remaining $386.6 million to overseas earnings to reach its current worldwide sum, $501.2 million.
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In China alone “Pirates 5” has made $142.6 million. Russia is the movie’s second highest grossing overseas territory with $30.5 million. Korea is in third with $17.9 million, while the U.K. and France round out the top five with $16.7 million and $15.2 million respectively.
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The movie’s massive earnings have pushed Disney past $2 billion in international grosses for the year.
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Johnny Depp returns to play Jack Sparrow, the role that earned him an Oscar nomination with the franchise’s first installment. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg co-directed the movie that also stars Javier Bardem. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley both returned to the franchise after skipping out on the fourth installment.
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The filmmakers cited the series' first installment, The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), as inspiration for the script and tone of the film, with critics describing the film as a \"requel\". Pre-production for the film started shortly before On Stranger Tides was released in early 2011, with Terry Rossio writing the initial script. In early 2013, Jeff Nathanson was hired to write a new script for the film, with Depp being involved in Nathanson's writing process. Initially planned for a 2015 release, the film was delayed to 2016 and then to 2017, due to script and budget issues. Principal photography started in Australia in February 2015, after the Australian government offered Disney $20 million in tax incentives, and ended in July 2015.\n
Dead Men Tell No Tales premiered in Shanghai on May 11, 2017, and was released in the United States on May 26. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $796 million worldwide against a production budget of $230\u2013320 million.\n
Thirteen years after the battle of Calypso's maelstrom,[a] a twelve-year-old Henry Turner boards the Flying Dutchman and informs his father, Will, that the curse which binds Will to the Dutchman and only permits him to step on land once a decade can be broken by the Trident of Poseidon. Henry intends to recruit Captain Jack Sparrow to help find it, but Will believes this is impossible and orders Henry to leave. Will and the Dutchman then disappear into the sea, but Henry vows to find Jack and the Trident.\n
Nine years later, Henry is a midshipman in the Royal Navy. His ship sails into the supernatural Devil's Triangle and stumbles upon the wreck of the Silent Mary, whose undead crew led by Spanish pirate-hunter, Captain Armando Salazar, slaughter the sailors but leave Henry as the sole survivor so that he can deliver a message to Jack, who led them to the Triangle decades ago, causing the downfall of Salazar and his crew and inadvertently cursing them.\n
On Saint Martin, a young astronomer named Carina Smyth is sentenced to death for witchcraft but escapes and crosses paths with Jack as he and his crew botch a bank robbery, suffering from a spell of bad luck. Jack later trades his compass for a drink, an act that destroys the Devil's Triangle and frees Salazar and his crew once more. Carina learns Henry is looking for the Trident's location and offers to help him using her unknown father's diary. Carina and Jack stall the execution process, but they escape with the help of Henry and Jack's crew, setting sail on the Dying Gull. Carina deciphers the clues in her diary, discovering that the stars will lead to an island where the Trident is hidden.\n
Meanwhile, Captain Hector Barbossa hears from his pirate crew that the revived Captain Salazar has killed several pirates at sea and is destroying Barbossa's fleet. Barbossa talks his way out of being killed by offering to help find Jack and learns that the Trident could lead him to a \"treasure\". Salazar agrees, wanting revenge on Jack. Salazar pursues the Dying Gull, forcing Jack, Henry, and Carina to flee to an island, discovering that Salazar's crew cannot go on land. Barbossa allies himself with Jack, returning his compass and restoring the miniaturized Black Pearl[b] to its original size. They continue their journey to the island, with Barbossa taking command of the Pearl once more. During the voyage, Jack and Barbossa realize Carina is the latter's long-lost daughter.\n
The Pearl approaches the Trident's island and evades a Royal Navy warship until it is destroyed by the Silent Mary before the Pearl runs aground on the island. Jack, Barbossa, and Carina use the island's magic to part the ocean which opens a path to the Trident on the ocean floor. Salazar captures Henry and possesses him to walk on the ocean floor and seize the Trident. Once he does so, Henry is given his body back, and Jack distracts Salazar, allowing Henry to destroy the Trident, breaking all curses upon the sea and restoring Salazar's crew to life. However, the Trident's destruction causes the divided sea to close in on them. The Pearl lowers its anchor to lift the group to safety, but Salazar pursues them, still hell-bent on killing Jack. Carina realizes that Barbossa is her father when she spots a tattoo on his arm identical to the diary's cover, a trident star formation. Barbossa sacrifices himself to kill Salazar, allowing the others to escape.\n
Sometime later, Henry and Carina reach Port Royal, where Will appears, free from the Dutchman. His wife, Elizabeth Swann, appears moments later and the Turner family reunites. Henry and Carina kiss. Jack watches from the Pearl before sailing away into the horizon, captain once again, while also adopting Captain Barbossa's monkey Jack.\n
In a post-credits scene, Will and Elizabeth are asleep in their bed, when Davy Jones appears in their room. When he prepares to strike the couple, Will wakes up to find no one in the room. Assuming he had a nightmare, he goes back to sleep, oblivious to the wet barnacles on the floor.\n
Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow: The former Captain of the Black Pearl who travels with Henry and Carina in search of the Trident of Poseidon.[6] R\u00f8nning wanted to focus on relatable characters, as in the first film, \"where Jack is not the [lead ... but] comes in and crashes the party every now and then,\"[7] and to make use of Depp's \"comedic genius\".[8] The film examines Jack's backstory, with the young Jack portrayed by Anthony De La Torre,[9] whose face was replaced by a CGI replica of Depp as he looked in 21 Jump Street and What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).[10] R\u00f8nning felt de-aging Depp was tricky against the canon of the franchise.[11]
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Javier Bardem as Captain Armando Salazar: The undead Captain of the Silent Mary who seeks revenge on Jack Sparrow and attempts to steal the Trident of Poseidon to kill every pirate at the sea.[1] Bardem set out to imbue the character with \"a rage based on dented pride,\" owing to his spectacular fall, from a high-ranking commander of a Spanish fleet to being betrayed and trapped in hell by Jack.[12] With Salazar's body language, he tried to convey a bull in an arena, \"full of rage and need of vengeance, but also wounded.\"[13] It took three hours a day to apply the make-up, which Bardem referred to as having \"cold chicken breasts\" glued to his face.[14]
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Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa: Sparrow's rival, the former Captain of the Black Pearl, and the Captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge.[1] On the character's role of having settled into a growing and prosperous pirate empire, Rush said, \"Barbossa has become extremely wealthy. He's got more money than he can deal with and he's not a guy of high taste. He's running a very big empire, maybe 10 or 12 ships, so he's the kingpin.\"[15][16]
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Brenton Thwaites as Henry Turner: The son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann who vows to break his father's curse by searching for the Trident.[17][1] The directors were keen to draft a new protagonist relationship with Henry and Carina, stating that \"in the middle of a big action scene, you need to be able to lean on the characters and find the heart of that story, and channel the characters' vulnerability.\" R\u00f8nning noted that identity is a major theme in the film, and to Henry and Carina's story arc: \"they are on a similar quest and find common ground in looking for who they are.\"[8] Lewis McGowan portrays a young Henry.[18]
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Kaya Scodelario as Carina Smyth: A headstrong, altruistic astronomer who was wrongly accused of being a witch.[1] Scodelario explained the character's motivation and role, saying, \"she is an academic, she's fighting for the right to study at university because women couldn't at that time.\"[19] For the directors, it was important to \"modernise it with Henry and Carina, Kaya, especially brought that with her. She's a modern woman.\"[7] Scodelario worked with scriptwriter Jeff Nathanson to ensure the character was unique to the series[12] and not a copy of Elizabeth Swann.[20] She said that female characters often \"fall into two camps; they are either pretty and perfectly put together or completely insane. Carina has definitely got a little bit of both.\"[12]
Orlando Bloom reprises his role as Will Turner, a blacksmith-turned-pirate who was transformed into the Captain of the Flying Dutchman at the end of At World's End (2007).[23][24] Bloom wore barnacle prosthetics for the role, reflecting Turner's status as a psychopomp.[25]\n
Keira Knightley briefly appears at the end in a non-speaking role as Elizabeth Swann, Will's wife and Henry's mother,[26] following the \"demand\" that the character be added after test screenings.[27]Adam Brown, Danny Kirrane, and Delroy Atkinson appear as members of Jack's crew,[28] and in the prison scene, Paul McCartney briefly appears as Jack's paternal uncle, Uncle Jack.[29] A CGI silhouette of Davy Jones is seen in the post-credits scene, but actor Bill Nighy stated that he had not been informed about the character's appearance.[30]\n
Shortly before the release of On Stranger Tides, the cast and crew of the fourth film were told to set aside time in the near future, because Walt Disney Pictures intended to shoot a fifth and sixth film back-to-back.[31] However, it was later stated that only a fifth film was in the works, with Terry Rossio writing a script for a fifth film without his partner Ted Elliott.[32]Rob Marshall was rumoured to return to direct,[33] but declined after choosing to direct Into the Woods (2014).[34] After Marshall passed on the film, many directors were rumored to take over.[35]Gore Verbinski, who was responsible for the original three films, felt that \"there's no reason other than financial\" in making the film.[36] The eventual shortlist included Fredrik Bond, Rupert Sanders, and the eventual choice, Norwegian film duo Joachim R\u00f8nning and Espen Sandberg.[37] The studio chose them based on their Academy Award-nominated high-sea film Kon-Tiki, and their ability to work with a limited budget.[38]\n
Rossio's script was ultimately rejected, and the writer stated that a major reason was its use of a female villain, which made actor Johnny Depp \"worried that would be redundant to Dark Shadows (2012), which also featured a female villain.\"[39] In January 2013, Disney hired Jeff Nathanson to work on a script.[40] R\u00f8nning and Sandberg said they were particularly moved by Nathanson's \"funny and touching\" script,[41] which convinced them to sign to direct in May,[42] R\u00f8nning believing that the script was \"all there\" but needed scenes to \"carry the tradition of Gore Verbinski, bring the emotional core and big action set pieces.\"[8] In August, R\u00f8nning and Sandberg revealed that the title would be Dead Men Tell No Tales.[43] However, the following month producer Jerry Bruckheimer said, \"We have an outline everyone loves but the script is not done,\" explaining that the release would be postponed beyond summer 2015.[38] The studio questioned Depp's bankability following the financial losses of The Lone Ranger (2013),[44] and the screenplay's first drafts were not approved by Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn, who was concerned about the finished product.[45] Bruckheimer revealed that script and budget issues were behind the delay, and that Nathanson was at work on a second draft, based on a well-received outline, saying they needed a script and budget everyone would approve.[38] Depp was also invited to collaborate on the script, with the actor believing it would be the last of the franchise and wanting to end it right.[46] After the script was accepted, the film was officially green-lit by Disney in July 2014, with a planned release on July 7, 2017.[47]\n
The directors were inspired by the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl,[41] stating that the original is thrilling but above all a comedy with heart, and wanted to reinvent the \"structure and the dynamics between the characters.\" In addition to recapturing the best of previous franchise installments, the directors had the works of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in mind when crafting the tone of the film.[8] The pair wanted the film to be the \"most emotional\" of the series, and to explore the roots of Jack Sparrow.[48] They decided to use Jack's compass as the \"key to unlock Salazar from his hellish prison in the Triangle,\" and toned down some of the fantastic elements \"to ground it, even in Pirates Of The Caribbean [sic].\"[49] Geoffrey Rush argued that the pair brought \"Euro sensibility to traditional Hollywood franchise thinking,\"[50] while Orlando Bloom believed that they had \"recaptured the simplicity and charm\" of the original film.[51]Kaya Scodelario said that the producers wanted to take the franchise back to its origins, with a story that gave characters a conclusion while opening new possibilities.[52] Along with the directors and writers, many of the crew members were new to the franchise, replacing those who had served on the previous four films, with the exception of Bruckheimer, costume designer Penny Rose, and executive producer Chad Oman.[1][53]\n
\nJavier Bardem was cast to play the role of Captain Salazar. His wife, Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, had starred in the previous instalment of the franchise as Angelica.\n
Speaking at the On Stranger Tides press launch in Cannes, Depp said he would play the role so long as it is popular with the public.[54] In August 2012, news surfaced that Depp had signed for the fifth film, earning A$90 million to reprise his role.[6] One month later, Pen\u00e9lope Cruz stated that in spite of her enjoying playing Angelica in On Stranger Tides, she had not been contacted regarding a fifth film.[55]Geoffrey Rush had commented on returning as Hector Barbossa in the fifth installment, saying \"If they keep shapeshifting this character, absolutely,\" and implied that he might return as the villain.[56] \n
Orlando Bloom commented in December 2014, saying that while he was not sure whether he would return as Will Turner, there were talks. He also indicated that Disney could make a soft reboot with the franchise and focus on Will and his son.[25] Both Will Turner's return and Bloom's participation was kept secret until the Disney D23 in 2015, after filming had wrapped.[57] Despite having previously stated that she wouldn't return in 2014,[58] there were reports suggesting that Keira Knightley would reprise her role as Elizabeth Swann due to Will returning.[59][60][61] Once the film was shown to test audiences, the filmmakers felt they were \"demanded\" to reunite both Will and Elizabeth's character.[27] To ensure that Knightley could reprise this role, the production moved for a one-day shoot in London, where she was working.[49]\n
On December 2, 2013, it was reported that Christoph Waltz was in talks to appear as the film's main antagonist,[62] but he later declined. The villain was eventually portrayed by Cruz's husband, Javier Bardem.[63] In 2014, Bardem signed on to portray Armando Salazar, who in early scripts was referred to as Captain John Brand.[1] Bardem had liked the working environment of the fourth movie, which he witnessed accompanying his wife, and stated he was also a fan of the franchise and of Depp's performance as Jack Sparrow.[64] Australian actor Brenton Thwaites entered talks for the role of Henry in late November 2014,[65] after Disney chose him over Taron Egerton, George MacKay, Mitchell Hope, Ansel Elgort, and Sam Keeley.[66]\n
Other actors had expressed interest in reprising their roles from the previous films, such as Tia Dalma portrayer Naomie Harris,[73] and Greg Ellis, even if his character Theodore Groves appeared to die in the previous film.[74] Both Lee Arenberg and Mackenzie Crook commented on the possibility of returning as Pintel and Ragetti.[75] In an interview on November 7, 2014, Crook confirmed that he had received a call of availability from Disney for the film,[76] though he later declined in order to focus on his television series Detectorists.[77] He said he had felt \"pangs of nostalgia\" when the cast and crew filmed without him.[78] Arenberg, who also had a television commitment, to Once Upon a Time, added that he felt like the producers \"weren't really trying to court us like they really wanted us.\"[79]\n
Directors Joachim R\u00f8nning and Espen Sandberg originally stated that shooting would take place in Puerto Rico and New Orleans,[80] and Bruckheimer had previously mentioned that there might be a sequence in Louisiana.[81] However, a spokesman for Australian Arts Minister George Brandis confirmed that the fifth installment was set to shoot exclusively in Australia after the government agreed to repurpose $20 million of tax incentives, originally intended for the remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; thus edging out Mexico and South Africa as filming locations.[82] Filming took place exclusively in Queensland, Australia, as the largest production to ever shoot in the country. Village Roadshow Studios and the Whitsunday Islands were officially confirmed as filming locations.[83] On January 1, 2015, The Rainbow Gypsy, a 35-year-old replica of an 1897 Scottish trawler, underwent an extensive refit at the Gold Coast, including a new bowsprit, and reconfigured decks and cabins, for filming as the Dying Gull. Its captain and owner, Kit Woodward, was a rigger in the film.[84]\n
Filming commenced on February 17, 2015.[1] Ship scenes were filmed in front of a giant outdoor greenscreen in Helensvale,[85] while a film set in the form of a village was built in Maudsland.[86] Because the greenscreens' height blocked the sunlight, containers with inflatable bluescreens mounted on top were added to the set to allow some light to enter.[87] While an initial draft of the script featured six ships, the end product had eleven vessels; to cut costs, most of these were partial constructs later enhanced by computer graphics, with some built atop a hydraulic rig to mimic the movement of seafaring while on land. The camera crew, led by the director of photography Paul Cameron, also made extensive use of drones, to capture immersive views at sea without resorting to aerial footage or cranes.[10][88]\n
Filming moved to Doug Jennings Park on the Spit from March 30 to June 15 for water-bound scenes.[89] However, due to extreme sea sickness among the cast and crew from the \"big swells,\" filming moved to Raby Bay for calmer waters.[90] Scenes were shot at Byron Bay on June 1. Locals made up more than 75 percent of the 850-plus crew then working on the film.[91] After much speculation about whether Orlando Bloom would return, Bloom arrived at the Gold Coast in late May to reprise his role as Will Turner.[23][24] Scenes featuring a skeleton of a sperm whale that had been constructed were shot at Hastings Point from June 21 to 23.[92]\n
\nSeveral problems occurred during production in regards to the usage of capuchin monkeys for the film, including violating Australian biosecurity laws, the safety of the monkeys and of the crew.\n
A number of issues and controversies set back the film during its production. The biosecurity laws in Australia posed problems regarding the capuchin monkeys that portray Hector Barbossa's pet monkey Jack, because the animals are regarded as a category 1 pest and call for strict requirements and a 30-day quarantine.[93] Further controversy erupted from animal rights activist groups, who urged Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt to reject the entry application, arguing that the long air-flight would affect their health, and that their performance was unnatural and would create demand for illegal wildlife trade.[94] The three activist groups were Humane Society International Australia, WildFutures, and the Captive Animals Protection Society (Freedom for Animals/FFA).[95] One of the monkeys caused further disruption when it wandered off set at Movie World, and bit the ear of a make-up artist on another production set for Mako Mermaids.[96]\n
Crew and cast members were forced to cover the camera lenses on all mobile phones with duct tape to prevent the film from being pirated before its release. To prevent fans from interfering with the production, secret filming locations used the production name of \"Herschel\" to hide the fact it was the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film.[97] Following the attempt of an armed man trying to bypass security, the already tight security was increased.[98]\n
On March 10, 2015, Depp was injured off set and had to be flown to the United States for surgery.[99] Due to his absence, filming stalled completely and 200 crew members were forced to stand down for two weeks, after finishing all they could do without Depp.[100] Depp returned to set on April 21.[101] In June, Kaya Scodelario was injured on set along with a stuntman.[102] In early July, dismantling of the sets at the Spit had begun.[103] Most of the cast and crew had finished on July 8, and a wrap party was held on July 11.[104] Filming then moved to the Whitsundays for the final shots.[103][105] On July 21, 2015, R\u00f8nning announced that filming had wrapped after a 95-day shoot.[106] After nearly a year in post-production, reshoots and additional photography were conducted in Vancouver, Canada from March 24 to April 13, 2016, under the production title \"Herschel Additional Photography\".[107]\n
Editing was a collaboration between Roger Barton and Leigh Folsom Boyd, with the latter detailing that \"Roger started from the beginning of the film and I started from the end, and we kind of met in the middle.\" Boyd added that it was the longest post-production process she was ever involved with, as Disney wanted to give \"the support and leeway we needed to tell the story and allow for the complex visual effects to bake.\"[108] The editors worked closely with the previsualization team to, according to effects supervisor Gary Brozenich, \"give meat to the bones of the plates that needed effects explanation as well as any new CG beats that would be added later.\" Along with the post-production team in Los Angeles, Brozenich had to split his time going to the UK and Montreal, to check on the eight companies handling the film's 2,000 visual effects shots, with 150 of them consisting only of computer graphics. The primary vendor was Brozenich's own employer Moving Picture Company (MPC).[87][109] Among MPC's work were Salazar's undead pirates, whose on-set footage was mostly replaced by CGI to achieve missing body parts and floating hair and clothing. Brozenich stated that what was kept of the original actors was \"their run, gait and faces.\" To provide reference for the floating parts, which were meant to resemble a perpetual drowning state, a stuntman in full costume and wig was filmed underwater in a swimming pool performing various actions.[10]\n
Atomic Fiction handled the scenes at St. Martin, turning the few blocks of buildings built on set into more than 600 CG buildings, surrounded by a jungle environment. The work combined references from both the Caribbean and Thailand, and enhanced through CGI both the guillotine on which Jack Sparrow is nearly executed and the bank from the heist scene; the bank was meant to look as if its foundations were dug through the ground instead of sliding on the surface.[110] Along with sea footage filmed in both the Australian sets and Key West, Florida, there was extensive usage of water simulations, with the artists using the Beaufort scale to ensure the waves and wind realistically matched.[87]\n
This was the first film in the series (since the first) that Hans Zimmer did not compose the music for. Instead, the main composer is one of his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, Geoff Zanelli, who had worked on the previous four installments in the franchise.[111] Zanelli said that Zimmer \"redefined the sound of the entire genre\" and considered it a great accomplishment to have worked with him and Bruckheimer. He used this experience with the franchise to build a new sound for the film.[111] He stated that \"you don't have to modernize the melodies, those are timeless,\" citing one example of how he tried to make the sound more modern by featuring an electric cello to create a menacing leitmotif for Captain Armando Salazar.[112] This was also the first Pirates of the Caribbean score to feature mostly live percussion, as opposed to the programmed percussion in the prior scores. As it took more than a year for the film to start production following Zanelli being hired, he accompanied the script's evolution, and was familiar with the character arcs that he would need to translate in their theme songs. Zanelli always started writing the music on the piano, namely a synthesized orchestra.[113] The film's soundtrack was released on May 26, 2017.[114]\n
A robust marketing effort helped promote Dead Men Tell No Tales.[115] The film was first showcased at the Disney D23 Expo 2015, where Depp appeared in costume as Jack Sparrow and the film's logo was revealed, with Orlando Bloom confirmed to be starring in the film.[116][117] A 240 page tie-in prequel novel expanding the backstory of the character Carina Smyth was also released, titled Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales \u2013 The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth.[118] The film was showcased at the 2016 Walt Disney Content Showcase in South Africa, where concept art, story details and on-set images were previewed.[119]\n
Dead Men Tell No Tales screened on March 28, 2017 at the 2017 CinemaCon event in Las Vegas.[120] It had its world premiere at the Shanghai Disney Resort in Shanghai on May 11, 2017,[121] and was released in the United States on May 26.[122] In some countries, including the United Kingdom, the film was released as Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge,[123] a decision that the directors were not informed about.[49] It is the first Hollywood feature to be released in the United States for the new panorama-like ScreenX format, which played in two locations in the United States, the CGV Buena Park and the CGV Cinemas in Los Angeles. Additionally, it played in 81 screens at select theaters in Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Turkey, and Indonesia. The film also played in 4D on 373 4DX screens worldwide.[124] The film was released in IMAX in an expanded 1.9:1 aspect ratio.[125]\n
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales was released on digital download by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on September 19, 2017, and on Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray, and DVD on October 3.[126] It was the top home-media release in its first week, with the Blu-ray version accounting for 78% of sales, and brought the previous four films back into the 25 best-sold Blu-rays.[127]\n
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales grossed $172.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $623.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $795.9 million,[5] against an estimated production budget of $230 million.[3] It had a worldwide opening of $271.4 million from 55 markets, with $24 million coming from 1,088 IMAX screens.[128] The film's six-day opening gross pushed the franchise gross past the $4 billion mark.[129] Despite being the lowest-grossing film of the series in North America by nearly $70 million and despite scoring the second-lowest nominal gross of the franchise outside North America (only ahead of Curse of the Black Pearl), Dead Men Tell No Tales became the highest-grossing entry of the Pirates franchise outside North America when accounting for foreign-exchange rates, surpassing On Stranger Tides, which grossed $593.4 million at July 2017 rates.[130] The largest-earning foreign markets were China ($172.3 million), Japan ($59.5 million), and Russia and the CIS ($40.7 million), where it was the second-highest-grossing film behind Avatar (2009).[131]Deadline Hollywood noted the film would turn a net profit of around $280 million after factoring together all expenses and revenues based on a projected $850 million final gross (though it would ultimately fall short of that figure, likely resulting in a smaller profit).[132]\n
Dead Men Tell No Tales debuted over the four-day Memorial Day opening weekend, being released in 4,276 theaters, of which over 3,100 were 3D, taking advantage of formats such as IMAX, D-Box, and 4DX.[133] The film earned $23.4 million on its first day, including $5.5 million from previews. It was the lowest opening day of the franchise.[134]Dead Men Tell No Tales grossed $63 million over three days, and $78.5 million over four (Friday\u2013Monday), finishing first at the box office, ahead of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and fellow newcomer Baywatch (2017).[135][136] It was the second-smallest opening weekend of the franchise, only earning more than the first film, with each of the other installments earning at least $90 million.[137] Despite the film registering the highest test score in the series,[138] the opening came in well below expectations of $80\u2013115 million.[139][140] Analysts attributed the underperformance to negative reviews, franchise fatigue, and Johnny Depp's diminishing returns and depreciating public image, amid his personal problems. Still, it performed better than Disney's previous Memorial Day releases (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Tomorrowland (2015), and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)),[141][142][143] and studio executives said they were pleased with the movie's opening,[129] which helped Disney push past $1 billion in the US.[144]\n
The film fell by a total of 65% in its second weekend, the worst of the series, grossing $22.1 million,[145] and finishing in third place, after newcomers Wonder Woman (2017) ($103.3 million) and Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) ($23.9 million).[146] It remained in the top ten for four more weeks.[147][148]\n
Marketed as Salazar's Revenge in most countries, the film was released day-and-date with its debut in 54 markets (91% of its total marketplace, except Japan, where it debuted on July 1).[149] Preliminary reports had the film opening to $150\u2013175 million, but possibly overperforming depending on major markets, most notably China.[133][150] While its Chinese run benefited from the May 28\u201330 Dragon Boat Festival\u2014a lucrative moviegoing period\u2014and from International Children's Day (June 1),[151][152] the Manchester Arena bombing had a deteriorating effect on certain European markets over the film's opening weekend.[153] From Wednesday to Friday, it registered an opening of $208.8 million. Around $14 million of that came from IMAX screenings, the second-biggest international IMAX opening in May, after Captain America: Civil War (2016).[128] Similar to its US plunge, it earned $73.8 million in its second weekend, falling to second place, behind Wonder Woman.[154]\n
It recorded the biggest opening day of the year in several markets, including Germany ($3.6 million), Austria, France ($2.3 million), Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Thailand ($400,000), Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Netherlands ($900,000).[153][155] Russia posted the biggest opening of all time with $18.4 million ($18.6 million including previews).[128][144][156] In China, where the film had its global premiere, it earned $21.3 million on its opening day, the fourth-biggest Disney opening in the country. It had an 87% marketshare and had already surpassed the entire earnings of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.[157] Earning a total of $67.9 million, it registered the third-highest three-day for any Disney title, and a much-higher opening than the US.[128] The film did extremely well in IMAX, earning $9 million from 401 screens from Friday to early Monday bookings. The robust opening has been attributed to the Dragon Boat Festival, Depp's star power, the ubiquity of the franchise, the impact of Shanghai Disneyland Park, and good word of mouth, with a score of 7.5/10 on reviews aggregator Douban and 8.7/10 on top mobile-ticketing platform Weying.[158][159] The film's final release market was Japan (July 1), where it opened at number one, achieving the highest-grossing opening for a Western film of the year, earning $9.25 million over the July 1\u20132 weekend.[160] It retained the box office lead for one more week, and was the highest-grossing foreign film in the following weekend.[161]\n
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 30% of 293 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The website's consensus reads: \"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales proves that neither a change in directors nor an undead Javier Bardem is enough to drain this sinking franchise's murky bilge.\"[162]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 39 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable\" reviews.[163] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\u2212\" on an A+ to F scale,[137] and PostTrak reported 81% of those gave the film a positive score.[164]\n
Mike Ryan of Uproxx criticized what he termed as a convoluted plot and overabundance of characters, resulting in a film that was \"practically incoherent.\"[165] Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers called the film \"bloated, boring, repetitive, and draining\" and gave it one star out of four.[166]Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club wrote that the film echoes the first three of the franchise, \"in which Johnny Depp's louche and campy Jack Sparrow played second banana to an insipid love story... the two romantic leads ... succeed only in making the shortest movie in the series seem just as long as the rest.\"[167]A. O. Scott of The New York Times said of the film, \"Its pleasures are so meager, its delight in its own inventions so forced and false, that it becomes almost the perfect opposite of entertainment.\"[168] Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post remarked that the film was \"loud, overstimulating and hard to take in all in one sitting.\"[169]Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle found the film to be \"a jumble of half-baked impulses\" that had been forced into a played-out franchise.[170]\n
Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four, saying: \"Dead Men works well enough as a stand-alone, swashbuckling comedic spectacle, thanks to the terrific performances, some ingenious practical effects, impressive CGI and a steady diet of PG-13 dialogue peppered with not particularly sophisticated but (I have to admit) fairly funny sexual innuendo.\"[171] Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood praised the film, calling it \"the most entertaining installment,\" and giving credit to R\u00f8nning and Sandberg for creating a \"rollicking good time\". He praised the visual effects, particularly Salazar and his crew, arguing that the film should be in line to receive an Academy Award for Visual Effects. He also gave high praise to Bardem for being able to create such a \"fully dimensional villain\" under the layers of make-up and CGI, and Depp for keeping the film and franchise going.[172] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a 'B', praising the fun nature of the film and its visuals and calling it \"gorgeously detailed swashbuckling nonsense,\" but wished that the script had taken more risks instead of following the formula used in previous films.[173] Ashley Esqueda of CNET gave the film a positive review, arguing that it brought the franchise back to what made its first two installments so fun, and praised Depp's performance as being \"delightful as ever.\"[174] Brian Truitt of USA Today gave the film three stars out of four, saying \"What was once a past-its-prime franchise seems to have found new life.\"[175]\n
On March 4, 2017, director Joachim R\u00f8nning stated that Dead Men Tell No Tales was \"only the beginning of the final adventure\", indicating that it would not be the last film of the franchise and that a sixth film could be released.[179] The post-credits scene of Dead Men teases a potential plot involving Davy Jones, who appears in some form while Will and Elizabeth sleep.[180] In September 2017, producer Jerry Bruckheimer indicated that another Pirates sequel would be possible if Dead Men Tell No Tales did well in its home release.[181] In October 2017, the sixth film was confirmed and Kaya Scodelario said that she was contracted to return.[182] Shortly after, it was announced that R\u00f8nning was being eyed to return to direct the sequel.[183] By August 2018, the sixth film was still in development.[184] The following month, Keira Knightley said that she did not see herself returning for another installment due to the fact that she is a mother now and that the films take too long to shoot.[185]\n
In October 2018, it was reported that Disney had been looking for ways to reboot the franchise, bringing on Deadpool (2016) writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick though producer Jerry Bruckheimer was expected to return.[186] However, in February 2019, Reese and Wernick departed the project and the reboot was cancelled.[187] In May 2020, Bruckheimer commented that the first draft of the screenplay for the sixth film would soon be finished, although he was not sure what role Depp would have in the film.[188] However, in April 2022, in the midst of the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Depp revealed that he had no intention of returning to the franchise, citing his strained relationship with Disney after they had removed him from the franchise before a verdict was reached in the case.[189]\n
In February 2023, Orlando Bloom expressed interest in returning to the franchise.[190][191][192] In March, Keira Knightley explained to Entertainment Tonight why she wouldn't make a return to the franchise. \"What about Elizabeth Swann?\" Knightley joked when asked if she would rejoin the crew. \"I mean, she sailed away so nicely. She sailed away in brilliant style.\"[193] Bruckheimer has meanwhile reiterated he would like to have Depp involved in the sequel.[194][195] In July 2023, it was reported that Depp had softened his stance and was willing to return to the franchise, \"If it's the right project\".[196] In September, Craig Mazin confirmed that his and Ted Elliot's script was bought by Disney and also commented that it was \"too weird\". He also confirmed that production of the sixth installment had stopped because of the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.[197]\n
^The Matador & The Bull: Secrets of Salazar & the Silent Mary (Featurette). Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Blu-ray: Walt Disney Home Entertainment. 2017.\n