Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a
2006 adventure film of the
Pirates of the Caribbean series, the sequel to the
2003 film
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and the first film from Walt Disney Pictures to feature the current logo. The film was directed by
Gore Verbinski, written by
Ted Elliott and
Terry Rossio, and produced by
Jerry Bruckheimer. The movie received 4 Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and won the
Academy Award for Visual Effects.
The story picks up from where the first film left off when Captain
Jack Sparrow (
Johnny Depp) discovers his debt to the villainous
Davy Jones (
Bill Nighy) is due, while
Will Turner (
Orlando Bloom) and
Elizabeth Swann (
Keira Knightley) are arrested by Lord
Cutler Beckett (
Tom Hollander) for helping Jack Sparrow escape execution.
The film was shot back-to-back with
the third film during 2005, and was released in
Australia and the
United Kingdom on
July 6,
2006, and in the
United States and
Canada on
July 7,
2006. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for its special effects and criticism for its confusing plot and lengthy running time. Despite this,
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest set several records in its first three days, with an opening weekend of $136 million in the United States, and became the third movie to gross over $1 billion in the worldwide box office, behind
Titanic and
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.