After a gap of a good few years, the Pirates Of The Caribbean series returned to cinemas this summer with Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge. It split us at Den Of Geek. One or two really liked it, one or two couldn’t stand it. But crucially for Disney, the box office seemed a little deflated this time around. Considering that Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (the fourth movie) crossed the $1bn mark at the global box office, the $791m take of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge was less than expected.
However, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, for one, is pleased with how things went. In a new interview with Yahoo, he was clearly in full-on producer mode…
“I think it did phenomenal”, he said.
“I mean, you’re talking about the fifth [film] in the series in a down market, and the American dollar is so strong that we’re getting less returns from foreign”.
“This movie would’ve [taken] a billion dollars had it been back in the same financial [world as the last film], but we lost 27% of our money just by the conversion rate”
“But god it’s at what, $790m now? It’s amazing”.
Jerry’s happy, at least. The strong suspicion is that Pirates Of The Caribbean 6 won’t be happening, though, although Bruckheimer insists that it remaisn a possibility. “Hopefully [Pirates 5 is] very successful on DVD as the other ones have been. Then hopefully we’ll sit down and see where we go”, he teased.
The full piece with Yahoo is here.