'Pirates' estimated &#36;55M haul sets record
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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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"Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" led the foreign box office for the  11th time in 12 weekends Sunday with estimated sales of $7.6  million from 36 territories.
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Sci-fi action film "Transformers" smashed another box-office record by grossing $29.1 million on its second full day of release -- the most ever for a July 4 holiday, according to figures released on Thursday.
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.
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Private equity firms are setting records in the size of Asian buyout funds, adding to an existing pool of more than $35 billion that is waiting to be invested in deals in the region.
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The Coast Guard and Navy seized 30,000 pounds of cocaine from a boat off South America's Pacific coast this month in what authorities called the largest-ever seizure of the drug at sea.
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Right now, the bigger they are, the larger the haul.
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A world wide ring of pirates based around five Poles has been penetrated by police. A spokesperson for the Polish cyber cops have told Reuters that it had wound up an organised group, involving more than 100
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The number of seafarers killed by pirates surged last year, even though the overall incidence of armed robbery on the high seas fell, an international watchdog said in its annual report out Monday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Scoring a ninth   consecutive weekend as the most popular movie at the foreign   box office, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is   poised to become only the third movie to gross more than $1   billion in global ticket sales.
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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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Rampant movie piracy in the  Asia-Pacific region cost western film producers more than $718  million in lost revenue in 2003, up from $574 million in 2000,  the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said on Friday.
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Piracy in China cost film makers &#36;2.7  billion last year, with domestic firms shouldering more than  half those losses, according to a study commissioned by a trade  group representing the major Hollywood studios.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sells five million copies during its first day of release.
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CARNIVAL, the worldâs largest cruise line, yesterday posted record quarterly profits and said the performance underlined the success of its merger with P&amp;O Princess last year.
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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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Trade between China and Africa reached a record $55 billion last year, much of it coming from oil and metals.