Franchise
Pirates of the Caribbean
5 films•2003–2017•Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures
49%average critics68%average audience$290.1Mdomestic average
Films
5
2003–2017
Domestic
$1.45B
lifetime
Worldwide
$4.53B
lifetime
Avg opening
$90.2M
3-day
Avg legs
3.56x
opening → total
Return
4.0x
on $1.15B of budget
The Pirates of the Caribbean series runs to 5 films from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), together grossing $1.45B domestic and $4.53B worldwide. The biggest hit is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) at $1.07B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $136.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | 2017 | $63.0M | $172.6M | 2.74x | $794.9M | A- | 38% | #19 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | 2011 | $90.2M | $241.0M | 2.67x | $1.05B | B+ | 32% | #5 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | $115.0M | $309.0M | 2.70x | $961.0M | A- | 43% | #4 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | $136.0M | $423.0M | 3.12x | $1.07B | A- | 53% | #1 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | $46.6M | $305.0M | 6.55x | $654.0M | A | 79% | #3 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 3.5 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.0x
$4.53B worldwide on $1.15B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.45BInternational $3.08B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven4.8x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#44Biggest domestic runsPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest$423.3M#46Biggest opening weekendsPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest$135.6M#48Biggest worldwide runsPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest$1.07B
3 placings across 3 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
