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BVI’s "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End" showed little fatigue in its fifth frame, declining 41% with $20.4 million at 10,538 to push the international cume to $584.6 million -- the seventh-highest of all time, as the buccaneers topped "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Third "Pirates" pic is now less than $60 million behind the final foreign take of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men’s Chest" and has surpassed it in 20 markets, mostly in Asia and Latin America.
Japanese biz for the third "Pirates" pic remained stellar with a 27% slide to $4.7 million at 838 for a fifth straight first-place finish and a $68.3 million cume. Second frame in China, its final market, showed decent traction with a 44% decline to $2.2 million at 900, lifting cume to $11.1 million; Brit biz held nicely with a 35% decrease to $2.1 million at 525 for a Blighty cume of $75.5 million |
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