With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales setting sail this Memorial Day weekend, Deadline is reporting that the fifth instalment of the blockbuster adventure series is tracking a four-day opening of between $90 and $100 million.
The Memorial Day record is held by the third chapter of the series, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End, which debuted to $139.8 million back in 2007 across the four day period. The original film opened to $46.6 million, while Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest debuted with $135.6 million and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides pulled in $90.2 million.
Pirates will face some competition on Memorial Day weekend in the shape of the R-rated comedy reboot of Baywatch, which is said to be tracking an opening haul of around $45 to $50 million from five days.
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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 Salazer (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.
