Disney’s blockbuster hit Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest emerged as the top-grossing film of the year, earning more than $1 billion worldwide. That’s a treasure chest that will be stuffed even more when the pic arrives on home video on Dec. 5.
In the film, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) and must find a way to save himself from suffering for eternity as a member of the fiend’s army of sea phantoms. Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightley return as Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, Sparrow’s reluctant partners in swashbuckling, and visual effects are provided by Industrial Light & Magic, Asylum, The Orphanage, Method Studios, Tippett Studio, Caf’ FX and Proof Inc.
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest will be released as both a single disc issue and a deluxe, two-disc special addition DVD set. Featuring limited availability holographic packaging, the special edition will offer a behind-the-scenes documentary, a Captain Jack featurette, a sword-fighting featurette, a look at the creation of film’s CG Kraken, an on-location view of filming, a featurette on the legend of Davy Jones, red-carpet premiere footage, producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s personal on-set photo diary and a bonus program on the newly ‘re-Imagineered’ Pirates of the Caribbean theme-park attraction.
The third installment in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, is currently in production and is expected to debut on May 25, 2007 (Memorial Day weekend). Disney announced recently that is also planning to make a feature film based on its Jungle Cruise attraction, one of the first rides installed at Disneyland in 1955. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Smallville showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar are in negotiations to write the script. The pair’s credits include Disney’s Herbie: Fully Loaded and Shanghai Noon, as well as Sony’s Spider-Man 2.
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