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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest from 2006, and Beauty and the Beast from 1991.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 American fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
The sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), it is the second instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
Set one year after the events of The Curse of the Black Pearl, the film recounts Captain Jack Sparrow owing a debt to Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), the ghastly captain of the Flying Dutchman, and is marked for death and pursued by the Kraken.
Meanwhile, the wedding of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) is interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander), who wants Turner to acquire Jack's magic compass in a bid to find the Dead Man's Chest.
Two sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl were conceived in 2004, with Elliott and Rossio developing a story arc that would span both films.
Filming took place from February to September 2005 in Palos Verdes, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and The Bahamas, as well as on sets constructed at Walt Disney Studios.
It was shot back-to-back with the third film of the series, At World's End (2007).
Dead Man's Chest was released in the United States on 7 July 2006, and received mixed reviews, with praise for its visual effects and Depp and Nighy's performances, but criticism for its running time and plot.
The film broke several records at the time, including the opening-weekend record in the United States with $136 million, the fastest film to gross over $1 billion at the worldwide box office (63 days), became the highest-grossing film of 2006, and was the highest-grossing film produced by Disney until it was surpassed by Toy Story 3 in 2010.
The film received four nominations at the 79th Academy Awards (winning Best Visual Effects).
Directed by: Gore Verbinski.
Written by: Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio.
Based on: Characters by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie, Jay Wolpert, and Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.
Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgård, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Kevin R. McNally, and Jonathan Pryce.
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski.
Edited by: Craig Wood, and Stephen Rivkin.
Music by: Hans Zimmer.
Production Companies: Walt Disney Pictures, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
Release dates: 24 June 2006 ( Disneyland Resort), and 7 July 2006 (United States).
File Length: 144 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $225 million.
Box office: $1.066 billion.
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the 1756 fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (who was only credited in the French dub), while also containing ideas from the 1946 French film of the same name directed by
Jean Cocteau.
The film was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Don Hahn, from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton.
Beauty and the Beast focuses on the relationship between the Beast (voice of Robby Benson), a prince who is magically transformed into a monster and his servants into household objects as punishment for his arrogance, and Belle (voice of Paige O'Hara), a young woman whom he imprisons in his castle in exchange for her father's freedom.
To break the curse, the Beast must learn to love Belle and earn her love in return before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose or else, he will remain a monster forever.
The film also features the voices of Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Angela Lansbury.
Walt Disney first attempted to adapt Beauty and the Beast into an animated film during the 1930s and 1950s but was unsuccessful.
Following the success of The Little Mermaid (1989), Walt Disney Pictures decided to adapt the fairy tale, which Richard Purdum originally conceived as a non-musical period drama.
After seeing a test reel, Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg scrapped Purdum's idea and ordered that the film be a musical like The Little Mermaid instead.
Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote the film's songs.
Ashman, who additionally served as the film's executive producer, died of AIDS -related complications six months before the film's release, and the film is thus dedicated to his memory.
Beauty and the Beast premiered as an unfinished film at the New York Film Festival on 29 September 1991, followed by its theatrical release as a completed film at the El Capitan Theatre on 13 November.
The film grossed $331 million at the box office worldwide on a $25 million budget and received widespread acclaim for its romantic narrative, animation (particularly the ballroom scene), characters, and musical numbers.
Beauty and the Beast won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, the first animated film to ever win that category.
It also became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards (ultimately losing to The Silence of the Lambs), where it won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for its title song and received additional nominations for Best Original Song and Best Sound.
In April 1994, Beauty and the Beast became Disney's first animated film to be adapted into a Broadway musical, which ran until 2007.
An IMAX version of the film was released in 2002 and included the new song " Human Again", originally an eight-minute storyboarded musical sequence ultimately replaced with " Something There", but later revised in the 1994 musical as a five-minute piece.
That same year, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
After the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King, the film was reissued in 3D in 2012.
In 2014, Time magazine ranked Beauty and the Beast as the greatest film of the Disney Renaissance and one of the greatest animated films of all time.
Other derived works and material inspired by the film, include a 2017 live-action remake of the film directed by Bill Condon, which was released on 17 March 2017, and a 2022 musical presentation of the film on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney.
Directed by: Gary Trousdale, and Kirk Wise.
Screenplay by: Linda Woolverton.
Story by: Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders, Burny Mattinson, Kevin Harkey , Brian Pimental, Bruce Woodside , Joe Ranft, Tom Ellery , Kelly Asbury, and Robert Lence.
Based on: Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.
Produced by: Don Hahn.
Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Rex Everhart, and Jesse Corti.
Edited by: John Carnochan.
Music by: Alan Menken.
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation, and Silver Screen Partners IV.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.
Release dates: 29 September 1991 ( NYFF), and 22 November 1991 (United States).
File Length: 84 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $25 million.
Box office: $424 million.
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