Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 adventure fantasy film, the third film in the
Pirates of the Caribbean series. The plot follows
Will Turner,
Elizabeth Swann, and the crew of the
Black Pearl rescuing
Captain Jack Sparrow (
Johnny Depp), from
Davy Jones's Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by
Cutler Beckett (
Tom Hollander) and
Davy Jones (
Bill Nighy), who plan to extinguish
piracy.
Gore Verbinski directed the film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with the preceding film,
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
The film was released in English-speaking countries on May 25, 2007 after
Disney decided to move the release date a day earlier than originally planned. Critical reviews were mixed, but
At World's End was a
box office hit, becoming the most successful film of 2007, grossing over
$960 million worldwide, and making it the third most successful in the series, behind
On Stranger Tides and
Dead Man's Chest.
It was nominated for the
Academy Award for Makeup and the
Academy Award for Visual Effects, which it lost to
La Vie en Rose and
The Golden Compass, respectively. It remains the
most expensive film ever made, with a budget of $300 million. A fourth installment,
On Stranger Tides, was released in theaters on May 20, 2011.
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