Booty call

January 02, 2007 Dead Man's Chest, with another flamboyant turn by Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, easily unburied lots of boxoffice treasure. Even before the latest "Pirates" set sail on the weekend of July 7, last year's boxoffice tally had begun to improve on the downbeat returns of 2005 when alarmists were predicting that moviegoers were abandoning theaters en masse. With megaplexes working overtime to accommodate the crowds that thronged to "Dead Man's Chest" -- which established new one-day, opening-day and opening-weekend records -- a boxoffice revival was ensured.

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