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How the VFX Team Created Rotting, Terrifying Ghost Sharks for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

What does it take to create the visual effects for a film as massive as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales? Try hundreds of dedicated artists working on set and in locations around the globe. Moving Picture Company deployed some 700 visual effects artists, as well as an on-set crew, to create some ...

By The Credits  |  January 17, 2018

Interview

Cinematographer

Dead Men Tell No Tales DP on how They Made the Splashiest Pirates Film of All Time

Ever since Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) first set sail in Curse of the Black Pearl, nothing says summer like a rum soaked Caribbean cruise with a swashbuckling gang of rogue miscreants. Friday will mark the fifth time that Disney has ushered in blockbuster season with a Pirates of the Caribbean adventure. Dead Men Tell No ...

By  |  May 25, 2017
Behold Sir Paul McCartney in a New Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales Photo

The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has a history of enlisting legendary British musicians in crucial cameos. You recall that none other than the Rolling Stones deathless guitarist Keith Richards played Jack Sparrow’s father in At World's End, and now, in Dead Men Tell No Tales, they’ve managed to employ possibly the only man even more ...

By  |  May 15, 2017
From Humble Disneyland Ride to Juggernaut Franchise: The Legacy of Pirates of the Caribbean

Pirates of the Caribbean has been one of Disney’s most surprising franchises, cementing Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) as an iconic character in the course of four films. A new featurette explores how Pirates grew from a Disneyland ride into the juggernaut franchise it now is, ahead of the release of Dead Men Tells No Tales. The fifth ...

By  |  April 26, 2017
The Dead Have Risen in new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales TV Spot

The dead have taken command of the sea, and they’re looking for a girl (Kaya Scodelario’s Carina Smyth) and, wait for it, a Sparrow (Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack, of course). Walt Disney Pictures has been giving us a closer look at Dead Men Tell No Tales the last few weeks, sharing a behind-the-scenes featurette, a ...

By  |  April 3, 2017
Go Behind-the-Scenes With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales due in theaters in about two months, Walt Disney Pictures has begun teasing the latest Jack Sparrow adventure. Just this week we got more background on why Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) has such a massive beef with Jack (Johnny Depp, as if you didn’t know). ...

By  |  March 29, 2017
Jack Sparrow’s Being Hunted in new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Preview

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again—you can’t do a better job of casting your main villain than snagging Javier Bardem. The man who made Anton Chigurh one of the truly great monsters in 21st century cinema in the Coen Brothers No Country for Old Men is playing Captain Salazar—a ghost sailor who, ...

By  |  March 27, 2017
Jack Sparrow’s Back in new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales Trailer

We’ve got our first look at Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in quite some time, and the guy hardly ages (must be all that rum). Behold the first full trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales , which includes the first footage we’ve seen of Depp. The teaser and the Super Bowl spot ...

By  |  March 2, 2017
Best of the Super Bowl Spots: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

We're rounding up the very best of the Super Bowl's film spots. We've already shared Logan, Transformers: Last Knight, Ghost in the Shell and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2. Now we’re taking at a look at the new teaser for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. This new trailer gives us a much closer look ...

By  |  February 6, 2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Drops 1st Teaser

We're going to go out on a (wooden) limb and say that Javier Bardem's villain Captain Salazar will rise to the very top of your favorite Pirates of the Cairbbean moody, mean-spirited pirate list. In the first trailer for Dead Men Tell No Tales, Bardem's Salazar is the main event, overtaking a British ship in his quest for a ...

By  |  October 3, 2016