There'll be some flagons of ale being thrown back at Disney HQ this morning. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest fair destroyed the competition and every record in its way. Over the weekend Pirates 2 took $132 million, shattering Spider-Man's previous record of $114.8, which included the biggest opening day ever of $55.5million.
The success of Pirates was bad news for Superman Returns, which dropped by 58.4% to $21.9million. That takes its gross so far to $141.7 million, hardly small potatoes but very disappointing for a mega-budget movie of such clear quality.
The rest of the chart looked rather a lot like this.
Title
Weekend Gross
Total Gross
Week #
1
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $132,080,000
$132,080,000
1
2
Superman Returns $21,850,000
$141,677,000
2
3
The Devil Wears Prada $15,600,000
$63,696,000
2
4
Click
$12,000,000
$105,921,000
3
5
Cars
$10,330,000
$205,504,000
5
6
Nacho Libre
$3,339,000
$73,813,000
4
7
The Lake House
$2,845,000
$45,621,000
4
8
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
$2,484,000
$57,369,000
4
9
Waist Deep $1,861,000
$19,167,000
3
10
The Break-Up
$1,646,000
$114,304,000
6