From yahoo.com:
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 Worlds End,” hauled in $112.5 million from Friday to Sunday, well below last summers $135.6 million opening weekend for its predecessor, “Dead Mans Chest.”
“At Worlds End” had the fifth-biggest three-day opening ever, with this months “Spider-Man 3″ $151.1 million and “Shrek the Third” $121.6 million both outperforming it.
Adding in $14 million from Thursday night preview screenings, “At Worlds End” had taken in $126.5 million domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Thursday night screenings skewed the weekend figures for “At Worlds End,” which likely would have done much of that business on Friday without those previews.
Though it missed out on key box-office records, “At Worlds End” is on course to surpass last years “X-Men: The Last Stand,” which had the best four-day Memorial Day weekend debut with $122.9 million.
“We will go flying by that,” said Chuck Viane, Disney head of distribution.
