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People, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has made over $321 million domestic. In THREE WEEKS. Good freaking lord that's a lot of money. Anyway, though off 43% from last weekend's earnings, Captain Jack easily retained his grip on the top box office spot ahead of three major debuts, taking in about $32 million from 4133 screens. The second and third spots, meanwhile, were filled by two of those new films, with Monster House making a respectable $23 million, and Lady in the Water earning just $18.2 million, well-below the expected "mid-$20 million" open for which Warner Bros. had been hoping. (Looks like it's not just those foolish critics who aren't smart enough to get the great M. Night, huh?) The weekends other big release, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, stumbled badly, landing in the seventh spot with only $8.7 million, a total that left it nearly $1 million behind Clerks II, which opened on about 600 fewer screens. That said, both films were beaten out by sophomore flicks You, Me and Dupree ($12.8 million) and the critically loathed Little Man ($11 million).

Full numbers are after the jump.

It's official: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a failure. It made only $62.2 million last weekend, failing to break the second-weekend record owned by, of all things, Shrek 2. Poor, poor Disney. Ahem. Yeah, you're right -- they're probably ok over there, what with setting a new record for 10-day earnings ($258 million) and passing X-Men: The Last Stand as the year's top-grossing film and all. In addition, the film's per-screen earnings -- slightly over $15,000 -- were matched only by Gabrielle, a French film that opened on only two screens. Most of the films in the top 20 struggled to take in $5000/screen.

Though POTC2 fell off by more than 50% from last week, it still easily outdistanced the weekend's two major debuts, You, Me and Dupree and Little Man, both of which opened solidly with around $21 million (Little Man was in 500 fewer theaters). Superman Returns recovered a bit from the Pirates broadside and finished the weekend in the fourth spot, with $11.6 million. In other news, The Break-Up, which is gradually being scaled back, finally left the top 10, ending the weekend with a take of under $1 million from 797 screens, good enough for fourteenth place. Full numbers are after the jump.

After Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest rocked all of our socks last weekend with a record-setting $135,634,554 million opening weekend (sure, cynics might say that its presence on over 8000 screens in more than 4000 theaters had something to do with that but still -- that's a big damn pile of money), Buena Vista and Disney are hoping the film sets more records as it heads into weekend number two. POTC2 has been setting new marks pretty much every day, and assumptions are that tonight's final numbers will find it surpassing Spider-Man 2 as the biggest seven day-earner in history; Sunday will likely see earnings top $250 million.

Away from the US, meanwhile, this is Superman Returns' first World Cup-free (Forza Italia!) weekend, and Warner Bros. is giving the film a broad debut in European and South and Central America; WB expects big numbers from France, England, Mexico and Brazil, all of which are seeing the film this weekend for the first time.