Weekend Box Office: Professor, what's another word for pirate treasure?
Moviegoers anxious for confusing, overlong, bellicose anti-entertainment got their fill this Memorial Day weekend with Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End, which took in $156 million over the four-day stretch (including special Thursday screenings), and, in an aggressive global assault, brought in another $245 million in territories outside North America. That was just enough to edge out the week's other opener, William Friedkin's Bug, which brought in $4.2 million. (Though the film, shot mostly in one location, probably cost less to make than one of Davy Jones' tentacles.)