&quot;Pirates&quot; races past $400 million overseas
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&quot;Pirates of the  Caribbean: At World&#39;s End&quot; overwhelmed the international box  office for the second consecutive weekend, making off with an  estimated $105.4 million from 103 markets.
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LOS ANGELES  - Domestic champion "Ghost Rider" also led the weekend box office overseas, after earning $16.4 million from 25 markets.
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Rampant movie piracy in the Asia-Pacific region cost western film producers more than &#36;718 million in lost revenue in 2003, up from &#36;574 million in 2000, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said on Friday.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean:  Dead Man's Chest," Hollywood's newest billion-dollar baby,  ended its nine-week run atop the foreign box office Sunday,  replaced by another Disney smash, "Cars."
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Move over Darth Vader. Captain Jack Sparrow is king for a day. Preliminary estimates released by Disney show that &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#039;s Chest&quot; earned &#36;55.5 million on Friday, which would set the record for the largest one-day take at the box office. The previous record was set last year by &quot;Star Wars: Episode III &amp;#151; Revenge of the Sith,&quot; which grossed about &#36;50 million.
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&quot;Shrek the Third&quot; led  the foreign box office for a third consecutive weekend, earning  more than its two closest competitors combined.
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Domestic champion "Ghost  Rider" also led the weekend box office overseas, after earning  $16.4 million from 25 markets.
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A plunder licious Memorial Day weekend for pirate Jack Sparrow broke records domestically and worldwide -- boosting the film industry's growing consensus that this will be Hollywood's biggest summer and year ever.
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&quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At  World&#39;s End,&quot; the third film in Walt Disney Co.&#39;s lucrative  adventure franchise, sold an estimated $57 million of tickets  in its first two days of release across North America, the  company said on Saturday.
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Led by "Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest's" fabulous $60.2 million haul, the  weekend box office was especially lively internationally as the  studios unleashed a batch of offerings during a summer  compressed by World Cup activity in June and early this month.
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Talk about booty.  Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" tallied  first-week sales of 10.5 million units, according to the  studio, making it the biggest home video debut of any new  release this year.
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"Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" ruled the foreign box office for  an eighth weekend, grossing an estimated $17.8 million from 48  territories.
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Even before it opened, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" already had one box-office record in hand.
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The third installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films passed the $500 million mark worldwide in 20 days, including a record opening in China for the film's distributor, The Walt Disney Co.
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The German thriller  "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" replaced "Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" as the No. 1 film at the  international weekend box office, according to final studio  data issued Monday. (Weekend reports had indicated that  "Pirates" took the lead for the 11th time in 12 weekends.)
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The dragon fantasy  "Eragon" sold an estimated $30.3 million worth of tickets  during its first weekend of foreign release, propelling the  youth-slanted adventure to the No. 1 slot overseas.
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&quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead  Man&#039;s Chest&quot; raked in a lot of doubloons at North American  theaters over the weekend, grossing a record &#36;132 million in  its first three days, according to studio estimates.