Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has now been out for two weekends, and already it looks certain to become the biggest box office draw of the year – it's still top of the US weekend box office.
In fact, after scoring the biggest ever weekend box office gross last week, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has become the movie with the third-biggest second weekend box office ever – after Shrek 2 and Spider-Man – a fact that we can only put down to undecided moviegoers being swayed by the promise of seeing Johnny Depp doing a funny run and then a slightly confused look once every six seconds for two and a half bleeding hours.
The amounts of records that Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has broken in the week that it's been out has been astounding – best opening day, best opening weekend, biggest film of 2006, fastest ever film to reach $200 million – which isn't really all that shoddy for a confusing, overlong conveyor belt of mindless set-pieces starring the gaunt-looking one out of The Office, is it? Here's the US weekend box office top five for this week…
1 – Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (We were surprised this week to learn that the Dead Man's Chest of the title of the movie doesn't refer to Kiera Knightley's scrawny, concave, undernourished torso. However, this will be amended when the DVD is released and the title is changed to Pirates Of The Caribbean: For God's Sake Eat Some Food You Scraggy Posho) $62,186,000
2 – Little Man (There's one thing that you can rely on the Wayans brothers for: devastatingly unimaginative movie titles. When they played white chicks, they called the film White Chicks and now there's Little Man, where one of them plays a little man. Let's hope that their next film is called Funny Characters With No Lazy Pointless Gimmicks For A Change) $21,700,000
3 – You, Me And Dupree (The movie that finally answers the question of what hilarity would ensue if Owen Wilson hung out with the Almost Famous slapper and the racist policeman from Crash for a couple of hours) $21,338,000
4 – Superman Returns (This week: Superman returns from his lunchbreak to find that Beth from accounts has switched on the office fan, and it's blown his carefully stacked pile of TPS reports all over the blooming place!) $11,620,000
5 – The Devil Wears Prada (Wow, people in the fashion industry are kinda bitchy sometimes, huh? To think, and we only had to pay £7.50 to find that out. Thanks for that lesson, 20th Century Fox) $10,450,000
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Weekend Box Office – Box Office Mojo
[story by Stuart Heritage]
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