&quot;Pirates&quot; plunders $57 million
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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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Nicolas Cage found box-office bullion with &quot;National Treasure,&quot; which took in $35.1 million over opening weekend to debut as the top movie.
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Seafaring sequel   Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man&#039;s Chest is in position to   potentially surpass Spider-Man&#039;s record for the best weekend   opening ever, according to industry predictions.
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Disney's Pirates hits the screen in a major way.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," the third film in Walt Disney Co.'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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&quot;National Treasure&#39;&#39; dug up more box-office loot over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, taking in US$32.2 million to remain the nation&#39;s top movie.
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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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Box-office treasure is a little harder to come by on the new voyage of "Pirates of the Caribbean." The third installment in the Walt Disney Co. franchise, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," hauled in $112.5 million from Friday to Sunday, well below last summer's $135.6 million opening weekend for its predecessor, "Dead Man's Chest."
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LOS ANGELES  - 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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Blockbuster&#39;s saber rattling is the latest salvo in a bidding war for Hollywood. Blockbuster values its bid at around US$1 billion: $700 million in cash, plus the assumption of $300 million in debt.
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The swashbuckler epic "Pirates of  the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" has become the third film to  pass $1 billion at the worldwide box office, distributor Walt  Disney Co. said on Saturday.
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In Hollywood, box-office  records exist to be broken. Last month saw several records fall  as Sony Pictures&#39; &quot;Spider-Man 3,&quot; and then the Walt Disney  Studios&#39; &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#39;s End&quot; stormed the  multiplex.
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They start with a single stolen file and pump out pirated games and movies by the millions. Jeff Howe from Wired magazine looks at the 'topsites' that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
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The third Pirates film dominates the US box office, but fails to match 2006 sequel Dead Man's Chest.
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&quot;The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie&quot; soaked up much of the US box office cash over the weekend, but &quot;National Treasure&quot; earned the most gold, according to final studio figures released Monday.
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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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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.