Jerry Bruckheimer’s Pirates of the Caribbean is a series of fantasy swashbuckler films based on Walt Disney’s theme park attraction of the same name. The film series is a major part of the media franchise of the same name.
The stories follow Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), and Elizabeth Swann on their exploits (Keira Knightley). Throughout the flicks, characters such as Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and Joshamee Gibbs (Kevin McNally) accompany Jack, Will, and Elizabeth.
Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and Angelica (Penélope Cruz) star in the fourth film, while Armando Salazar (Javier Bardem), Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites), and Carina Smyth star in the fifth (Kaya Scodelario). The films are set mostly in the Caribbean and take place in a fictitious depiction of the Golden Age of Piracy.
The first film in the series, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, was released in 2003 and received favorable reviews from both viewers and critics. It was a worldwide success, grossing US$654 million. Following the success of the first film, Walt Disney Pictures revealed that a sequel was in the works.
The sequel to the franchise, Dead Man’s Chest, was released in 2006 and shattered box office records worldwide on the day of its release. Dead Man’s Chest was the highest-earning film of 2006, grossing about US$1.1 billion worldwide.
In 2007, the third installment in the series, dubbed At World’s End, was released, grossing US$960 million. In 2011, Disney released On Stranger Tides, the fourth picture in standard 2D, Digital 3-D, and IMAX 3D. At the time of release, On Stranger Tides was the second film in the franchise to gross more than $1 billion, making it only the eighth film in history to do so.
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