Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is aiming for a box office opening weekend worth $80 million.
The Johnny Depp lead adventure flick is the fifth film in the franchise and the first since 2011’s On Stranger Tides.
Forecasts are predicting that the latest in the series will bow to around $80 million at 4,276 North American locations during the Friday-Monday Memorial weekend.
Projections are also putting the movie at between $150 million and $170 million for its international launch.
The biggest opening for the franchise domestically was 2006’s Dead Man’s Chest with $135 million, with the lowest being the first Pirates movie, The Curse of the Black Pearl, which brought in $46 million.
Dead Man’s Chest is also the overall highest earner in the series with $1.066 billion collected worldwide and $423 million domestically.
SEE ALSO: Read our review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No tales here
Johnny Depp returns to the big screen as the iconic, swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow in the all-new “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” The rip-roaring adventure finds down-on-his-luck Captain Jack feeling the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea – notably Jack. Jack’s only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Brenton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy. At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifull small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has never faced.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning (Kon-Tiki) and features returning stars Johnny Depp , Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Stephen Graham and Martin Klebba alongside new additions Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, David Wenham, Kaya Scodelario, Golshifteh Farahani and Paul McCartney. It is set for release on May 26th 2017.
