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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Trim the Sails and Roam the Sea

A couple of quick facts for you, wannabe pirates. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is, according to one of my favorite magazines (the only one, along with Wizard Magazine I am subscribed to) Entertaiment Weekly, the 7th most-grossing movie of all time. The movie looted $5.2 million last week, adding to a total gross of $401.3 million so far. This means that Spider-Man ($403.7 million) might not be the 6th most-grossing movie of all time for too long, hehehe.
So, other than being one of four movies to earn more than $400 million on its first release (I read it somewhere, but I can't find it to quote the article), it has become (always according to EW) the second-fastest movie to pass the "$400 million plateau". It's only taken Captain Sparrow and his crew 45 days to rack such an impressive bounty. Do you know what movie made it in 43 days? Lord of the Rings? Star Wars? Nope. It was Shrek 2. Weird, huh? At any rate, POTC: DMC is right now No. 7 of all time, so we should celebrate. Go plunder some convent!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pues muy bien, vamos a tener empacho pirata, dado que, como escribo en un comentario a otro post, mañana espero poner mi review. Si es que no te podías aguantar, ¿eh? Cuánto dinero está haciendo la película... Como si la Disney tuviera que ir mendigando entradas para poder dar de comer a Mickey o a Goofy, ahí en Disney World. Si hasta han comprado los derechos de los Muppets... Grrrr!!

Mario Alba said...

Hahaha. Disney no es que sea santo de mi devoción (tampoco es que sea muy devoto en general, pero ése es otro tema), pero me alegro de que la peli esté recaudando lo que no está escrito, hehehe.
Y sí: vamos a tener empacho pirata; lo cual no hace sino espolearme para poner otro post de semejante temática el martes, después del tuyo, hehehe. O, arrr!