Copyright 1997-2007 Omniture, Inc. More info available at LOS ANGELES mdash; In its first six days in release, ldquo;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World rsquo;s End rdquo; took in an estimated $401 million worldwide, shattering a variety of records.
Walt Disney Pictures is claiming the six-day opening is now the largest of all-time worldwide, with the $401 million topping the $382 million opening for ldquo;Spider-Man 3 rdquo; earlier in the month.
ldquo;Spider-Man 3, rdquo; of course, opened without the benefit of an associated holiday frame.
Since opening May 25, the third film in the blockbuster buccaneer saga has earned $156 million in the United States, including $142 million for the Memorial Day four-day holiday, which topped the $122.8 million record set last year by ldquo;X-Men: The Last Stand.
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It took ldquo;At World rsquo;s End rdquo; five days to top the three-day opening for ldquo;Spider-Man 3, rdquo; which remains the opening weekend record-holder with $151.1 million.
The six-day opening overseas for ldquo;Spider-Man 3 rdquo; was $232 million, a figure ldquo;Pirates 3 rdquo; had topped through Monday with $245 million.
The studio is reporting that ldquo;At World rsquo;s End rdquo; had broken opening-weekend records in a slew of foreign territories, including Korea, Japan, Russia, Spain, Taiwan and the Netherlands.
ldquo;Spider-Man 3 rdquo; remained a distant second overseas with a $20.7 million weekend, breaking its foreign cumulative total to $500.
9 million and pushing its worldwide gross over $800 million to date.
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