10 Film Franchises That Are Officially In Jeopardy
1. Pirates Of The Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean is far from the swashbuckling powerhouse it once was. The middling reviews and declining box office takings of recent instalments are telltale signs that the world is getting over Johnny Depp's rum-fuelled antics.
The fifth entry in the series, Dead Men Tell No Tales, earned $171.5 million in the US market, even less than the saga's weakest instalment On Stranger Tides, which grossed $266 million domestically.
Although Pirates always recoups plenty of booty internationally and on home media, the numbers clearly prove that interest in the series is beginning to wane. And that's not even taking Dead Men's lukewarm reviews into account - 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Even if Disney's bean counters deem a sixth Pirates movie financially viable, is it really worth pursuing from a creative standpoint? Where is left for the series to go?The last instalment ended with a pointless post-credits sequence which brought back an old villain purely for the sake of it.
Both financially and creatively, another movie is a bad idea.