Pirates film sets US box office record
Published July 10th, 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest has set an opening weekend record at the North American box office.
The film took an estimated $132m (£71m) in its first three days, beating the previous best debut of $115m (£62m), set by Spider-Man in 2002.
It generated almost three times the opening weekend total of the original Pirates film - also with Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley - two years ago.
Last weekend’s top release, Superman Returns, fell to number two.
The superhero’s comeback took $21.9m (£11.8m), down 58% from last week.
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