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Shrek plunders Pirates booty

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is no longer the number one movie in the world. Shrek the Third has started playing in dozens extra countries, and this has resulted in the green ogre taking over the number one spot. Shrek the Third made $ 46 million from 36 countries, meaning there are still many more countries to go where Shrek will no doubt also make off with a lot of money. Pirates is now in the second position, with $ 32.6 million from over 100 countries, and the movie is well on it's way to make $ 600 million outside of the US alone. Not sure if the movie will reach the $ 1 billion mark, as the movie is not doing so well anymore in the US, where it's struggling to reach $ 300 million. Third position in the international box office is for Ocean's 13, which made $ 26.3 million from 38 countries. Not a bad gross at all, but I don't think Warner has signed any contracts for Ocean's 14 yet...

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Fantastic Four 2 opening even better than expected, Pirates drops to 4th

As was expected, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver SUrfer was the number one movie in America over the past weekend. What wasn't expected however, was that it would open with even bigger numbers than the first Fantastic Four movie. And even though the increase wasn't that huge, $ 57.4 million to $ 56 million, it's still a sign that 20th Century Fox has done a good job promoting their new superhero movie. In a summer where people seemed to quickly grow bored with sequels, after several sequels disappointed, the fact that here is a sequel that improves on the original, wasn't lost on moviegoers. Now we will have to wait and see whether or not good word of mouth can give this movie a bit longer legs than all the other summer blockbusters. In second place, we find Ocean's 13. It dropped 47 percent, which is actually a pretty decent drop for a summer threequel. Most of the times, threequels lose about 55 percent or more, so Warner Bros can be pleased with the result. Knocked Up took third place this weekend, with a gross of $ 14.5 million, while Pirates fell to fourth place with $ 12 million. The Pirates total is now $ 273.8 million, which is up from the first movie, which had grossed 31 percent loss at this point in it's run, but 24 percent down from the second Pirates movie. Animated movie Surf's Up fell to fifth with $ 9.3 million. According to analysts, Surf' Up can consider itself lucky if it makes way with a final gross of about $ 60 million, which nowadays is not what you wish your animated blockbuster makes.

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Very funny clip of Johnny Depp at a Japanese TV show

Recently, Johnny Depp was in Japan to promote the third Pirates movie, and one of the stops on his visit was in some Japanese TV-show. Now if you have seen Lost in Translation, you know that American stars are mostly baffled at what is going on during these shows, and Depp's visit was no exception. Just watching Depp's face as a bunch of kids start performing a song for him was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.

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Chinese Pirates of the Caribbean 3 edited rigorously

Chinese movie fans will find it hard to understand the new Pirates movie when it opens in China later this week. Several severe cuts have been made to the movie, supposedly of scenes with too much violence and horror. This means many of the scenes involving Chow Yun Fat have ended up on the cutting room floor, and much of the picture will be hard to understand. Still, at least the movie is being released, as the previous part was banned by Chinese censors because of scenes involving ghosts, as well as canibalism.

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Pirates fight off Danny Ocean's gang and Shrek in international box office

At the international box office, Pirates still ruled supreme. The movie made another $ 51.3 million, which means it is now well on it's way to break the $ 500 million barrier today or tomorrow. This, despite the fact that both Ocean's Thirteen and Shrek the Third opened or expanded in a large chunk of the countries. Ocean's stole away with $ 28 million, while Shrek the Third had to make do with $ 25 million. Of course, if you compare the amount of countries the movies play in, Pirates plays in 103 countries, while Ocean's and Shrek play in 30 and 25 countries respectively, then the two contender's for the top spot did a lot better than Pirates, but since neither of those movies had the type of worldwide launch Pirates enjoyed, they weren't able to beat the Pirates out of the top position. You can expect a more serious challenge for the title from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer next weekend, because that movie will also open worldwide.

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Ocean's Thirteen winner of US weekend, Pirates dropping to 2nd

Ocean's Thirteen was the highest grosser of the weekend in the US box Office, but the opening gross was smaller than that of either Ocean's 11 or 12. The movie made $ 37.1 million, which is a perfectly fine amount of money, just not as high as analysts expected before the weekend. Word is now that people are getting a bit bored of all the threequels, after the first three threequels of the summer all disappointed in some measure. Good reviews for Thirteen couldn't help it to a franchise record, but if the movie is able to pick up some good word of mouth, things might still turn out alright for both this movie and the chances of another sequel.
Surf's up also didn;t reach the gross that was predicted, as the movie made only $ 18 million, while a gross of well over $ 20 million was pencilled in. Good reviews couldn't help the movie impress more, and it even landed in fourth position, behind Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Knocked Up. Looks like people weren't ready for another penguin movie after all...
Pirates 3 is now at a total of $ 253.6 million, with the possibility being there that the movie is not going to reach the $ 300 million mark in the US, which would be a major disappointment. Of course, the immense gross of the movie outside the US more than makes up for that.

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Johnny Depp and Keith Richards on the cover of Rolling Stone

If you want to see Johnny Depp and the inspiration for his character Jack Sparrow, Keith Richards, together, you can pick up the new issue of Rolling Stone (or watch the third movie, of course). Johnny and Keith are featured on the cover, and in an extensive interview inside the mag, which tells about the movie, their friendship and, no doubt, music.

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Pirates of the Caribbean breaks more international box office records

While the box office situation in the US isn't so rosy, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is continue to set new records in the rest of the world. The movie made $ 105.4 million in cinemas outside the US, for an international total of $ 408.8 million. Pirates was the fastest movie to reach $ 400 million internationally, while it is only the second movie (after the Matrix Reloaded) to gross more than $ 100 million in two consecutive weekends. The movie has now already made more money than the first Pirates movie, while it has already made 64 percent of the international total of the second part. It will be interesting to see how much further this movie is going to go.

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Threequels losing steam at the box office

Hollywood is becoming a little bit worried about it's high profile threequels. Because while Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Shrek 3 and Spider-Man 3 all opened huge, they have been losing visitors at an alarming rate. After only five weeks, the American weekend gross for Spider-Man 3 has sunk below $ 10 million, and even though the gross is still well past the $ 300 million, the final total for Spider-Man 3 won't come close to that of the earlier movies. Which is pretty bad if you consider that Spider-Man 3 broke the opening weekend record and grossed well above the opening weekend of the other two Spider-movies. Pirates 3 is still number 1 at the box office, but it lost 62.4 percent of its opening weekend audience, which, even for such a big blockbuster, is a huge percentage. And Shrek 3? It lost another 50 percent of its audience, rapidly eroding as well. Both Pirates and Shrek have passed the $ 200 million, and will probably also sail past $ 300 million, but even $ 350 million seems to be too far away, let alone the totals of previous installments. The reason? I'm guessing that bad word of mouth is really hurting these movies. Though the score of Pirates at IMDB is still a 7.5, it's going down by the week, while the other two movies are even below the 7. If the other threequels released this summer aren't much better than these three movies, then it doesn't bode well for the future of the big blockbuster threequel.

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Pirates of the Caribbean big winner at MTV Movie Awards

While the third Pirates movie is making big waves in the cinema, it was the second part that took the big prizes at the MTV Movie Awards. PIrates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was voted the best movie of the year by MTV's viewers, while Johnny Depp won the award for best performance. And while Depp isn't crazy about going to awards shows and accepting awards, he was at hand at the MTV Movie Awards to pick up his golden bucket of popcorn. When Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of the Pirates movies, told the viewers that Depp was the man who was the reason why the Pirates movies are such a big success, Depp replied with: “I’d like to thank this man and Disney for not firing me first." Another big winner was Sacha Baron Cohen, who took home two awards as well. One for best comedic performance for Borat, and one for best on screen kiss for his kiss with Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights. Jack Nicholson won the award for best villain for his performance in The Departed, while Gerard Butler won the award for best fight, for 300. Will Smith's son Jaden won the award for breakthrough performance, and accepted the award from Toronto, where he could be seen with his father, whilst his mother was handling the camera. Finally, Transformers won the award for best movie nobody has seen yet, which can only mean good things for the box office chances of the movie.

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