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One Billion Dollars! Disney's 'Pirates 4' Is 8th Film to Cross Big Box-Office Mark

By InCinemas / 04 Jul 2011 (Monday)

Source: thewrap.com
Disney confirmed Saturday that its fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, "On Stranger Tides," has grossed more than $1 billion worldwide since its May 20 release.

Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides represents the second top-grossing “Pirates” film, and will now set its target on 2006's "Dead Man's Chest," which took in $1.066 billion worldwide.

At $756.1 million going into the weekend, "On Stranger Tides" is the third biggest international grosser of all time among all time, beaten only by James Cameron's "Avatar" ($2.02 billion) and "Titanic" ($1.24 billion).

While domestic box office performance for "Pirates 4" has trailed the three previous films in the franchise, the movie's international performance is nothing short of extraordinary.

Here, thanks to Disney's PR department, are some fun "On Stranger Tides" fast facts (well, fun if you're a Walt Disney Co. shareholder):

Eighth film in history to reach the $1 billion threshold.

Third Disney film in less than 18 months to gross $1billion globally ("Alice in Wonderland" was the other).

The Walt Disney Studios’ fourth title to earn $1 billion.

No. 3 film of all time at the international box office.

Crossed the $500 million international threshold in a record-setting 14 days.

Crossed the $800 million global threshold in only 20 days, the second fastest ever to reach this milestone.

Set a new industry speed record by crossing the $700 million global threshold in only 16 days

Disney’s biggest international release ever.

The biggest "Pirates of the Caribbean" installment in 58 territories.

Highest-grossing Disney film ever released in China and Russia.

Nearing $100 million in Japan, where it’s been No. 1 for all six weeks of release.

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Here at InCinemas, we have also embedded 2 extended clips from the movie where you can get a glimpse of our favourtie Captain Jack Sparrow jumping off the high cliff and watching the badass Blackbeard demonstrating his powers to dissolve the mutiny in his ship.

Hope you've enjoyed watching these clips! We watched at least 2 times! If you can't get enough of it, you can also visit disneypirates on youtube for more! With such good box office results, we can all look forward to its Blu-ray and DVD releases and Pirates Of The Carribbean 5 in the future to come! =D

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One Billion Dollars! Disney's 'Pirates 4' Is 8th Film to Cross Big Box-Office Mark