"Pirates" Booty Hits $1 Billion
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Captain Jack Sparrow is Hollywood's newest billion-dollar baby.
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LOS ANGELES  - The bid by "Pirates of   the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" to lead the foreign box office   for a 10th successive weekend ended at nine as Disney   stablemate "Cars" outraced the Johnny Depp smash to the finish   line, according to final data issued Monday.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean:  Dead Man's Chest" has plundered the U.K. record books to become  the fastest-selling DVD of all time, Disney said Monday.
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"Transformers" set a new box-office record after netting $27.4 million from its debut. The previous record was held by "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", which earned $15.7 million. The movie opened on Tuesday at 4,011 theatres...
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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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The company said it is selling the unit to Standard Chartered for nearly $1.1 billion so it can focus on its core credit card business.
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Walt Disney Co.  said on  Wednesday that first quarter net earnings more than doubled  from a year ago, driven by DVD sales of "Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Cars" and by the sale of an  E! Entertainment stake.
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LOS ANGELES  - Captain Jack Sparrow took a back seat to that odiferous green ogre internationally during the weekend as "Shrek the Third" finished No. 1 with an estimated boxoffice of $46 million from 3,693 screens in 36 markets.
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"Pirates of the  Caribbean: At World's End" topped the DVD sales chart during  its first week in stores, while "Superbad" debuted at No. 2,  according to Nielsen VideoScan sales data issued Wednesday.
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Three years ago, &#36;654 million smash  hit movie &quot;Pirates of Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl&quot;  handed its Hollywood makers a devil of a dilemma: How the heck  to top it?
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For the first time, sales top $1 billion in one quarter, researcher says.
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The successful DVD release of the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie boosts Walt Disney's quarterly profits.
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TORONTO  - "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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Holiday shoppers in North America  snapped up nearly 5 million DVD units of "Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" in the hit title's first day in  release, Walt Disney Co. said on Wednesday.
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The MPAA estimated that global film piracy costs the US movie industry more than $3 billion annually, but it did not give an estimate for how much online piracy costs the industry.
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Walt Disney Co.  said on Wednesday that first quarter net earnings more than doubled from a year ago, driven by DVD sales of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Cars" and by the sale of an E! Entertainment stake.
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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.