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Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean 3 At World's End along with Wall Papers

Monday, May 21, 2007


Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End



Wide Release: Friday May 25, 2007
Director: Gore Verbinski




Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are allied with Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) in a desperate quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from his mind-bending trap in Davy Jones' locker, while the terrifying ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman and Davy Jones, under the control of the East India Trading Company, wreaks havoc across the Seven Seas. Navigating through treachery, betrayal and wild waters, they must forge their way to exotic Singapore and confront the cunning Chinese Pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat). Now headed beyond the very ends of the earth, each must ultimately choose a side in a final, titanic battle, as not only their lives and fortunes, but the entire future of the freedom-loving Pirate way, hangs in the balance.

Courtesy: - POFC @ Release Guide



The first Pirates of the Caribbean film was a bit of a surprising success. Budgeted at $140 million, the movie started out slow with a moderate $46 million opening weekend, but eventually went on to gross just over $305 million and even earned Johnny Depp an Oscar nomination for his outlandish portrayal of captain Jack Sparrow. The sequel was a surprise as well in the sense that no one expected it to shatter box-office records the way it did. The $225 million production had the highest grossing opening weekend in history when it managed to reap in $135 million domestically. It has since exceeded $420 million in total box-office receipts in the US and has surpassed the $1 billion mark in total ticket sales around the world. Currently, it is ranked third all time worldwide behind Titanic and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. It’s no surprise then that Disney has allotted $200 million for the third and final part in the trilogy and has announced plans to release it on the same day around the entire globe instead of letting it trickle through to various markets gradually.



You can expect that the third part will be entirely drowned in the same crude humor, stunning locations, and dazzling special effects that made the first two so spectacularly successful. The filmmakers should be able to surpass the box-office numbers of Dead Man’s Chest especially given the four-day weekend that occurs thanks to the Memorial Day holiday, but they are unlikely to replicate the quality of the very first entry. The drop-off in ingenuity from the first part to the second may affect the performance of At Worlds End just slightly, however. Either way, the Pirates of the Caribbean series has now become a mega-franchise and Disney is not calling it quits just yet. The third part will definitely close out the storyline in the trilogy, but there are already rumors that the producers are planning to make a fourth installment. Other rumors suggested that in order to save some money, Disney wants to cut Orlando Bloom from any such future endeavors. Said rumors were already denied somewhat halfheartedly in an official statement. Still, things look very promising for Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, even if the freshness of the series is mostly gone.



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