


A fourth film, On Stranger Tides, was released May 20, 2011. It was nominated at the 80th Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Best Visual Effects, and won Favorite Movie Actor for Johnny Depp at the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards. It was the highest-grossing film of 2007, bringing in over $960 million. With a production budget of nearly US$300 million, it was, at time of production, the most expensive film ever made.īuena Vista Pictures Distribution released At World's End in the United States on May 18, 2007, and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances and visual effects, but criticized its plot, pacing and runtime. This also marks the final film of the series to be directed by Verbinski. The film was shot in two shoots during 20, the former of which was released as Dead Man's Chest. Two sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl were conceived in 2004, with Elliott and Rossio developing a story arc that would span both films. In an uneasy alliance, Will Turner ( Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann ( Keira Knightley), Hector Barbossa ( Geoffrey Rush), and the crew of the Black Pearl rescue Jack and prepare to fight Lord Cutler Beckett, who controls Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman. Set a few months after Dead Man's Chest, the story follows a desperate quest to locate and rescue of Captain Jack Sparrow ( Johnny Depp), trapped on a sea of sand in Davy Jones' Locker, and convene the Brethren Court in a war against the East India Trading Company. The sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Dead Man's Chest (2006), it is the third installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 American epic fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski.
