The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise – based on Disney’s popular theme park ride – took the seas by storm in 2003 with the first film in the series, health The Curse of the Black Pearl, buy which became a box office success to the tune of $654 million worldwide; it also made Johnny Depp a bankable star. Almost eleven years later, ailment three more films have since been released, and a new Pirates-themed “land” is expected to open at Shanghai Disneyland Resort in late 2015.

To many, Pirates of the Caribbean is still a white-hot property, yet there has been little word about another film since On Stranger Tides (which made over a billion dollars at the box office) was released back in 2011. Last year, it was announced that the next film in the series would be tentatively called Dead Men Tell No Tales, and Norwegian directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg were expected to helm. A new release date of sometime in 2016 was also proposed, moving the film away from the extra busy summer of 2015.

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