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UPDATED, 9:04 AM:Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Talesopened in nine more territories on Friday and now sits at an international tally of $86.5M (and climbing) with China leading the way at the box office. Audiences in the Middle Kingdom which enjoyed a Pirates premiere the first world premiere of a Hollywood film in China have bought tickets to the tune of$21.3M for the studio. The film is now open in more than 90% of its international footprint. Only the key market of Japan (the country that loves Disney movies) is yet to open; it sails into that country on July 1.

So far, Disney has taken in $110M through yesterday and is now looking at a worldwide haul by tomorrow of$275M. The overseas box office has grown in importance over the years for this and other franchises. Specifically for the Pirates franchise, 53% of the worldwide gross in 2003 came from overseas and on the last go around in 2011, that percentage grew to 76%.

Speaking of percentages, Pirates has a big 87% marketshare in China right now, and it already ranks as the 4th highest Disney opening day ever. It has already surpassed the entire cume of the third Pirates movie, At Worlds End.

Pirates is also No. 1 in Mexico with a 68% marketshare and already 29% ahead of the opening day of Pirates 4 On Stranger Tides. Spain opened to about $1.5M, which ranked No. 1 for the opening day (it also has a strong 67% of the market).

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PREVIOUSLY FRIDAY, 8:44 AM: Disneys return to the swashbuckling adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow is off to a No. 1 start in all offshore markets. Through yesterday, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has reeled in $34.5M at the international box office. With domestic previews, that brings the global total to $40M as we head into the weekend.

Early estimates out of China, a key swing on how this Johnny Depp-starrer fares abroad, indicate an opening day today of $20M+ (that includes previews, but is not included in the overseas number above).

The launch day for Pirates 5, also known as Salazars Revenge in some overseas markets, ranks among the top debuts of the year in several hubs including Germany, Austria, France, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.

The Joachim Ronning-Espen Sandberg-directed movie began overseas rollout on Wednesday with a strong opening in France ($2.3M, 2nd biggest bow of 2017, 5% behind opening day of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 4% ahead of Captain America: Civil War, 34% ahead of Jungle Book all in admissions).

Korea was also a good opening, 6% behind POTC4, and in Norway, the helmers home country, POTC5 had an 83% market share. Indonesia bowed significantly ahead of the opening day of Pirates 4. Thailand, at $400K, had its 2nd biggest opening day of 2017 to date. In a sign of how some Asia Pacific markets have grown over the years, this was 66% ahead of the opening day of Pirates 4

Thursdays openings brought Germany the biggest start for a film of 2017 at 40% above POTC4. The UK was also a No. 1 bow, although this weeks Manchester terrorist attack is expected to impact box office this weekend. In the Netherlands, POTC5 was the top opening day of 2017 with $900K and the 2nd highest opening day for any Disney release behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It came in 47% ahead of POTC4.

Other markets topping the 2011 films performance on opening day include the UAE, Russia ($3.6M), Malaysia and Argentina.

In addition to China which is heading into the Dragon Boat holiday Spain and Mexico open today along with several other markets. Major markets not opening this weekend include Japan, which opens July 1.

For reference, On Stranger Tides opening weekend was about $175M in the same markets and at todays exchange rates; it went on to gross $805M offshore.

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(SPOILER ALERT: stop readingif you haven't seen Dead Men Tell No Tales).

It isn't all Captain Jack Sparrow-inspiredlaughs from Johnny Deppin Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales.

The fifth film in the Pirates franchise features the emotional death of a key, belovedcharacter (even if he was often bad).

Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who has appeared as a villain in all five Pirates films,dramatically jumps to hisdeath to take out theclimbing pursuit of Captain Salazar(Javier Bardem).

Barbossa's plunge pulls downSalazar, who was about to kill adventurer/astronomer Carina Smyth(Kaya Scodelario).Smyth was revealed to beBarbossa's estranged daughter earlier.

So Barbossa's decisionto sacrifice his own life was a full-turn from the untrustworthy, ultimate-survivor who plagued Sparrow throughoutthe franchise. It camecomplete with Barbossa'shands-open fall in slowmotion while looking at his saved daughter.

Geoffrey Rush as, left, and Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.'(Photo: Disney)

"For Barbossa, we really wanted a strong emotional core to give him a great story arc like that,"says Joachim Rnning,who directed Dead Men Tell No Tales withEspen Sandberg."We fought hard for that ending. Its the fathers story. Were both dads. And we can totally relateto that."

As for the hands-open fall,Rnning says it's less Jesus savior symbol, more Die Hard.

"I would say it was more Hans Gruber," saysRnningof the famed demise of that Die Hard villain played by Alan Rickman.

As for whether this is the end of the line for Barbossa, hold off on wagering your pirate's fortune. While this death had a sign of finality, Barbossawas killed by Jack Sparrow in the first film, 2003'sPirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and resurrected in 2006'sPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

"He's been dead before," says Sandberg.

Bill Nighy as Davy Jones.(Photo: Disney)

What's up with the post-credits scene?

After the final credit rolled, a scene featured a newly reunited husband and wife, Elizabeth Turner (Keira Knightley) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom).The two are sleeping blissfully in their home after being reunited at movie's end following the removal ofWill's wretched curse of The Flying Dutchman.

But Turner is awakened by the shadow of someone approaching and the site of a strange clawed hand. That can only be the left hand of Davy Jones(Bill Nighy)whom Turner killed with a knife to the heartat the end of 2007'sPirates of the Caribbean: The World's End.

Turner awakens from what appears to be a bad dream, and all seems normal except for barnacles under the bed.

Rnning confirms that the image was of Davy Jones and the scene paysrespect to "a legendary villain in the franchise."

But the end scene suggests that Knightley (who was brought onto the movie late in the process by popular demand) and Bloom's characters might have further adventures with their seemingly resurrected arch-nemesis with whom they tangled in the second and third Pirates.

"It's a little tease. We just wanted to throw in a hint that this might not be the end,"Sandberg says. "But the beginning of the end."

"Or was it all just a dream or a nightmare?" saysRnning.

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Diane Palmer has spent 25 years fine tuning her outdoor escape into a Caribbean paradise at her Naples Park home Tuesday, May 23, 2017 in Naples. (Photo: Luke Franke/Naples Daily News)Buy Photo

Step into Diane Palmer's Naples Park backyard and you're transported to the Caribbean.

The bougainvillea and the yellowmandevilla blooms have taken over the fence line. She likes it to look wild, like it does on the islands.

"It's not manicured," she said. "I like that. It looks like a bouquet."

Coconut and areka palms shoot up to the sky, and a towering mango tree has started to sproutits sweet fruit. Metal stars and spheres hang from the branches.

"It's our tropical paradise," said Palmer, a former Head Start teacher enjoying her firstyear of retirement from Vineyards Elementary School in North Naples.

Palmer and her husband, Alan, have lived in the little yellow house with the white picketed porchfor 25 years.In Naples Park, where the property lots are a just small postage stamp, the Palmers have carved out a backyard escape dedicated to the Caribbean.

"People say Naples Park is such a small lot, you don't have much ground," she said. "But if you're out there working in the garden, it's big enough, you don't need any more. You do it yourself."

And so that's what the Palmers did.

Diane Palmer has spent 25 years fine tuning her outdoor escape into a Caribbean paradise at her Naples Park home Tuesday, May 23, 2017 in Naples. (Photo: Luke Franke/Naples Daily News)

After living in Haiti for 18years, they found a location in Naples where they could sell Haitian artwork wholesale right out of their home. Inside, they painted the walls pink Diane Palmer's favorite color and removed the screens enclosing the front and back porches.

"We felt very enclosed," she said. "In Haiti we were used to the breezes and everything being very open."

The mango tree was one-third of the size it is now, and they put up fences to add a little privacy. The Haitian influences are around every corner.

There's something about the people that arefrom warm climates...When you go to the islands they have a great outlook on life.

In Haiti, nothing goes to waste, Palmer said, so the coconuts that have fallen to the ground now serve as boundaries among the garden patches, like around the sections of kangaroo fern, theleaves spotted with spores.

Haitian artwork and sculptures scatter the patio. A babbling Buddha water fountain is surrounded by Palmer's "orchid row."Nearby, a medinilla magnifica rests in a pot, with its droopy flamingo pink blossoms one of Palmer's most exotic plants.

Even the pink paint on the walls of the patio, a sort of dusty fuschia color, is titled "Calypso ruffle." Palmer liked that name.

"We really like to travel to warm places," she said. "There's something about the people that arefrom warm climates...When you go to the islands they have a great outlook on life."

She also pays tribute to her New York roots with a section of flowers from the northeast geraniums and a hydrangea Palmer hopesto nurse back to health.

She hopes to add more to her backyard, like a small pool that's part below ground, part above ground, and a wooden pathway.

Despitea small backyard space, Palmer saidgardeners shouldn't feel limited by the size of what they plant.

"Make it your retreat," she said."When you get home, it should feel like you're somewhere else."

Diane Palmer has spent 25 years fine tuning her outdoor escape into a Caribbean paradise at her Naples Park home Tuesday, May 23, 2017 in Naples. (Photo: Luke Franke/Naples Daily News)

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Did duels to the death really take place between naval authorities and these wild men of the seas?

But the real stories are more amazing that anything seen on the big screen.

Captain Henry Avery: One of the most famous pirates of all time.

If one man can be said to have inspired the so-called Golden Age of Piracy, it's Captain Henry Avery.

In his book, "The Republic of Pirates," Colin Woodard writes that Avery's "adventures inspired plays and novels, historians and newspaper writers, and, ultimately the Golden Age pirates themselves."

"He was a really important inspiration and symbol to the subsequent generation who became the Golden Age pirates," Woodard tells CNN. "Part of the reason is that Henry Avery became a pop culture phenomenon when these other pirates would have been children and teenagers."

By the time they were young men, Avery was a legend.

A sailor aboard a merchant vessel, Avery, like many other sailors, was getting increasingly disillusioned with the way the system worked.

"Sailors were so badly treated in many of these merchant vessels by the captains and owners," Woodard says. "They were given lousy rations, cheated out of their pay at the end of journeys, often fed spoiled food and placed on vessels that intentionally didn't have enough provisions on board."

Enough was enough. In 1694 Avery rounded up others to the cause of freedom, riches and glory and seized a ship under the cover of darkness while its captain, Charles Gibson, was sleeping in his quarters.

Avery placed Gibson in a rowboat before sailing away, reportedly telling him: "I am a man of fortune, and must seek my fortune."

Avery and his crew sailed for the Indian Ocean, using Madagascar as their base of operations. Soon they came across and took a ship belonging to an Indian emperor.

Accounts vary on what happened aboard the ship but they all agree on one thing -- Avery made off with staggering haul of money, jewels, gold, silver and ivory, worth more than $200 million today.

Avery had his fortune and each member of his crew received the equivalent of 20 years of wages aboard a merchant vessel.

With his ship laden with treasure and naval forces all over the world scrambling to track him down, Avery sailed for the Bahamas where he bribed the governor of Nassau with ivory and weapons into allowing him to ditch his ship and take a smaller vessel, bound for Europe.

Landing in Ireland, he bid his crew farewell. Then he and his plunder disappeared into history, never to be heard from again.

Rumor and myth surrounds Avery's fate.

One report claimed Avery died a beggar, cheated out of his fortune. Another had him returning to Madagascar as king of the pirates, ruling over a piratical empire with a squadron of ships commanded from a fortified palace.

"Avery is one of the very few who turned full pirate and got away with it," Matt Albers of the Pirate History Podcast says. "He just disappeared into the winds of history.

"It might be that he died as a penniless beggar on the streets of London or he may have died with a fabulous kingdom out in the jungle somewhere.

"No one is entirely sure what happened to him. But we do know that he was never taken by the authorities."

Getting away with it was a 17th-century thing. For the men he inspired in the early 18th century there would be few, if any, happy endings.

"The thing about those famous pirates is that all of them got caught," Albers says. "At some point they had a run in with the authorities that didn't go well for them."

A map of the Caribbean depicting some of the pirates' bases and the location of significant events.

David Wilson, an academic specializing in historical piracy, says authorities tried to push stories of piratical downfall as a deterrent.

"Really they're trying to publicize that piracy ends in death," he says. "The message is these men meet their doom through piracy to try to discourage any future pirates."

And there were plenty to choose from.

"Black Sam'" Bellamy, for example, was a rising star in the pirate world, calling himself "the Robin Hood of the Seas." In 1715, at the age of 26, as captain of his own ship, the Whydah, he was the most feared man up and down the Americas.

Having amassed a small fortune and a reputation for being unbeatable, he was sailing for Cape Cod in 1717 when disaster struck.

"Cape Cod had a weather system that would drive ships against the brutal cliffs of sand and shoals," Woodard explains.

The Whydah was caught in a storm and ran aground with shocking force and sank with its treasure still on board. Some 160 men perished and Bellamy's body was never recovered.

Newspapers of the day claimed God had punished him for becoming a pirate.

Another famous story is that of Calico Jack Rackham, named for the flamboyant Calico clothing he liked to wear.

As a pirate, Rackham was pretty unsuccessful. He was captured quite easily in 1720 and hanged.

His flag fared better. It's the one we all associate as the pirate flag, the skull and crossbones, the Jolly Roger. Made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island."

"They all had different flags and black flags with all these different symbols on," Wilson says. "They all had symbols of death in some way or other just to enact fear in ships.

"If you could throw that flag up and the ship gives in without a fight you're doing much better than if you had to then engage with them."

Engraving of female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read holding swords.

Rackham is also famous for the company he was keeping when he was arrested: Mary Read and Anne Bonny, the only known female pirates of the era.

"There was Ching Shih in China but she wasn't so much a pirate as a pirate queen who ran a pirate empire," Albers says. "The same with Grace O'Malley in Ireland, less an actual pirate and more someone who ran the pirates' base."

Rackham's female crewmates helped cement his own myth and legend, Wilson adds.

"A lot is made out of the female pirates, there were some but they were an anomaly, as were any women on sailing ships at that time," says Charles Ewen, professor of anthropology at East Carolina University.

"Usually they were just passengers, but there were female sailors from time to time. But for the most part they were a disruptive influence."

Read and Bonny were to be tried on charges of piracy and surely hanged. But, knowing that expectant mothers were exempt from the gallows, both women seduced guards while being held captive and fell pregnant.

"Their histories are fairly short and I think that the reason they're so popular is because of their trial," Albers explains.

Their arrest and the subsequent escape from the noose was big news in the London press at the time, but no one got more coverage than the notorious Edward Teach, the most fearsome of all the Golden Age Pirates.

A man more commonly referred to as Blackbeard.

In this woodcarving you can see the lighted fuses Blackbeard would keep in and around his beard so that during battle a demonic halo of sparks, fire and smoke would surround him.

"The interesting thing about Blackbeard is, if you were doing a ledger of who got the most treasure and was the most successful in monetary terms or plunder terms Blackbeard wouldn't make your top 10 list at all," Woodard says.

"But he is by far the most famous real pirate who ever lived, and the reason is that he cultivated this image of terror."

Blackbeard ruled the seas through fear. He let his beard grow wild and long, wore clothes stolen from aristocrats and cultivated an image of a wild man in gentlemen's fittings.

"You had all these pirates with bandoliers and grenades and axes wearing a gentleman's wig or a woman's silk dress or scarves and all this finery." Woodard says. "His fellow pirates would be dressed up like a 'Mad Max' movie."

During battle, Blackbeard would also put lighted fuses in and around his beard, giving him a demonic halo of sparks, fire and smoke.

"It would be utterly terrifying to people on another vessel. And that was the whole point," Woodard says.

Blackbeard also had serious firepower.

"Blackbeard put 40 cannon on his ship, the Queen's Anne Revenge, and that was so he could sail up, run up the black flag, which apparently they really did, and then scare the folks into saying, 'Ok I give up, don't kill us,'" Ewen says. "You wanted to have a scary reputation."

Blackbeard's scare tactics were so successful that there's no documented account of him killing or hurting anybody. Everybody just simply gave up.

Until his final fatal battle with Britain's Royal Navy in 1718.

"It was the gallant young Lieutenant Robert Maynard who was leading the detachment of sailors charged with finding Blackbeard," Woodard explains.

"This is precisely where Robert Louis Stevenson and later the Disney movies and pop culture -- this is exactly the famous scene from where all this was constructed.

"Blackbeard's battle was the model for your cliche shipboard fight between the dashing young officer and the rogue pirate," Woodard continues.

Blackbeard and his men boarded Maynard's ship. Cutlass in one hand, pistol in the other, Blackbeard engaged the lieutenant in a duel to the death.

Maynard shot Blackbeard, but the pirate carried on fighting furiously with his cutlass, Maynard's own sword breaking as he tried to stave him off.

As Blackbeard was about to deliver the final blow, one of Maynard's men delivered the pirate a "terrible wound in the neck and throat."

Maynard then shot Blackbeard again in the stomach and though he cocked his pistol ready to return fire, he fell down dead before he could.

Maynard decapitated Blackbeard and hung his head from the front of his ship. He sailed up the east coast of America, causing shockwaves as news spread that the notorious Edward Teach had perished in battle.

"There was only one newspaper in what is now the United States, the Boston Newsletter and they covered it exhaustively, as did the London papers at the time. It was the big media phenomenon of the early 18th century," Maynard says.

Yet there remains a mystery with Blackbeard -- the whereabouts of his journal.

The journal was recovered by Maynard and used as evidence to try Blackbeard's captured crew on charges of piracy. But after the trial, the journal, along with court documents, vanished from history.

"People have been looking for it for years," David Moore, a nautical archaeologist says.

Under protocols of the time, there should have been a copy of the documents in the place of trial and another sent back to the Admiralty in London.

"For whatever reason that copy was never sent or it disappeared or it got lost in the filing system," Moore says.

"Certainly if it had been misfiled somebody would have stumbled across it by now. It would have been too fascinating a document even though they were probably looking for something else.

"To me that's odd," Moore says.

Recovering the documents would likely be one of the most significant finds in pirate archaeology.

Who knows, perhaps there's even a map inside with an X that marks the spot.

But those who took it died a long time ago -- and dead men tell no tales.

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Clockwise from top: Agwe (Vincent Montgomery), Papa Ge (Vonzel DeShawn Reynolds), Ti Moune (Ashley Bruce, bottom), Erzulie (Akeisha Mandela), and Asaka (Alexis Johnson) are players in "Once on This Island"'s talented ensemble cast.(Photo: Quincy Music Theatre)

When telling the story of a people, one must be earnest to those the story reflects. Its why some bemoan Miss Saigon for its Eurocentrism while others laud Moana for attempting to see Pacific Islanders through their own eyes. Like that sentimental fairy tale about island folk, another does the same for Caribbean lore in Once on This Island, the charming one-act musical opening this weekend at the Leaf Theater in Quincy.

Set in the French Antilles, its The Little Mermaid meets Romeo & Juliet, framed as a story-within-a-story. During a frightening thunderstorm, peasant villagers comfort a small girl by telling her about another girl who as an infant was orphaned by a storm not unlike that nights. This girl, Ti Moune (played as a child by Alaina Mohammad and as an adult by Ashley Bruce), is found and adopted by a peasant couple, Mama Euralie (Monica Howell) and Tonton Julian (Tory Williams).

The island is governed by four gods: Agwe, God of Water (Vincent Montgomery), Asaka, Mother of the Earth (Alexis Johnson), Erzulie, Goddess of Love (Akeisha Mandela), and the Demon of Death, Papa Ge (Vonzel DeShawn Reynolds). One day, a fully-grown Ti Moune prays to the gods that she might find her purpose, prompting a bet between Papa Ge and Erzulie about which is stronger: love or death.

The gods test their bet by causing the car of a young aristocrat named Daniel Beauxhomme (Timothy Haney) to crash nearby so that Ti Moune may find and heal him. She does, and while restoring him to health falls in love with him. The only problem is that Daniel is a grand hommes, light-skinned descendants of the French who occupy the wealthy and developed half of the island. Such is the caste segregating him from Ti Moune, the dark-skinned peasant who he too comes to desire. The classic Montague and Capulet scenario.

Tonton learns from a visit to Daniels family about why the two groups remain separated, in an oral history lesson about how a French colonist named Armand (Aris Averkieu) had a mixed-race son named Beauxhomme who led the peasantry in repelling the French, only to come to hate them when the affluent Beauxhommes displaced the colonists as the dominant social class.

Heartbreak enters the equation when a dejected Ti Moune learns of Daniels arranged marriage to the well-heeled beauty Andrea (Naomi Lamarche) and shes forced to make a desperate choice. The musical ends much as it beginsto the sound of an upbeat island groove, one that is both familiar and distant.

Much of the plot is sung-through, and so its the music itself that tells the story. The scenery, a garden of live tropical plants assembled around an obelisk of a fake tree, is beautiful when paired with moody lighting and the rich hues of the costumes. But truly, the selling point here is the score by Stephen Flaherty, known also to audiences for his work on Seussical and Ragtime.

Here, a small band led by Robert Nelson is more than enough to pump out the fusion of contemporary Broadway overtones with the synth, steel-drum, and bongo-driven music of the tropics. Its a soundtrack in which the cast singstheir faces off, in particular, Ti Moune, her parents, the four gods, and Andrea.

Once on This Island is chock-full of emotional highs and lows, and its up to the cast to project that in just a little over an hour. At once light-hearted and a tear-jerker, what it gives is a short but sweetode to both love and forgiveness with a Caribbean flavor that audiences wont soon forget. Props to director Bryan Mitchell, his diverse and talented team of actors and singers, and to the Quincy Music Theater on a job well-done.

What: "Once on This Island."

When: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays and June 3. Through June 4.

Where: The Quincy Music Theatre, 118 E. Washington St., Quincy.

Cost: $18, $15 students, seniors, and military.

Contact: Call 875-9444 or visit qmt.org

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Earlier this month, reports surfaced that hackers stole Disneys upcoming film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, threatening to release the film online if a demand for ransom wasnt met. Speaking to Yahoo! Finance, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the company had not been hacked, and that the threat was a fake.

To our knowledge we were not hacked, he said when asked about the role of technology at Disney. We had a threat of a hack of a movie being stolen. We decided to take it seriously but not react in the manner in which the person who was threatening us had required.

Iger described cybersecurity as a front burner issue for the company, and that while Disney took the threat of a stolen movie seriously, it declined to pay the ransom that was demanded. At the time, an unknown party demanded an enormous amount of money, to be paid in Bitcoin, with the threat that the film would be released online much like Netflixs Orange is the New Black was back in April.

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It seems it almost wasnt a Pirates life for Keira Knightley.

Brenton Thwaites, who plays Henry Turner inPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, recently chatted with HuffPost about what its like to play the son of Orlando Blooms Will Turner and Keira Knightleys Elizabeth Swann. He also shed some light on Knightleys big return.

The actor told us,Its kind of an honor to play a Turner. Ive watched all their stuff together since the first movie, and theyve always had such a great banter and wonderful chemistry with each other.

Fans were especially excited about the chance to see that chemistry again when it got out that Knightley would appear in the film. Images of the actress, which first showed up in the international trailer, instantly went viral. Since then, the cast has been pretty forthcoming about Knightleys appearance, withBloomopenly talking about sharing the screen again with his Pirates co-star on the red carpet.

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Still, her return apparently wasnt always a lock. As Thwaites remembers it, the Knightley scene wasnt in the original script.

I believe it was added after. Im not sure, but I believe it was added after, Thwaites told HuffPost, saying the part with Elizabeth Swann was shot 14 or 15 months after principal photography.

It was a long gap between finishing production and doing the reshoots was that little segment, said Thwaites. I had already shot my biggest scenes with Orlando,so we already had our moment, and our story had come to an end, and we kind of [closed] that chapter and had our climactic moment.

(HuffPost reached out to screenwriter Terry Rossio about the moment and will update this story accordingly.)

Knightley previously said she wasnt going to appear in another Pirates movie, which could explain why Elizabeth Swann supposedly wasnt included in the initial script. But what changed her mind?

Perhaps she just missed life on the high seas. Or, as we speculated before, the actress probably stole a piece of cursed Aztec gold and got pulled into the role while trying to return it to the Pirates set. Who knows?

However it happened, were glad shes back. Swanns inclusion is without a doubt one of the best parts of the movie, and it may play a role in where the franchise goes from here.

Thwaites told us hed like to see his character have a bit more material with Elizabeth Swannin futurePirates films.

I didnt really have that much with Elizabeth Swann, Keiras character, but I would like to see a bit more of that because it feels like the start of something new, he said, and theres kind of a lot of possibility at the end of the movie.It feels like it will go somewhere.

If we had a magical compass that pointed to what we wanted most, itd be more Elizabeth Swann, too.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales hits theaters Friday.

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Why stop at Mrida? Carrie Regan, executive producer for HGTVs House Hunters International, Mexico Life, and Caribbean Life, shares other hot spots to buy a vacation home now.

I love getting in programs weve shot there because the architecture is so cool, with homes on hills with ocean views and thatched roofs. Its known as a surfing destination with a thriving culinary scene.

We have a lot of buyers these days for Puerto Rico. I think thats because its a US commonwealth, so people dont have to worry about buying outside the US, the politics, or value of the dollar. Plus, given its current economy, there are bargains to be had.

Its known as one of the least expensive places in the Caribbean to scuba dive and get certified. Some of the properties you can only get to by boat, so its very rustic and off the grid. And you can buy a plot of land for under $100,000 and build a dream home.

Mahahual still has that charm you find along the Mayan Riviera. Its a place to get in early and get some deals. Weve had people tour two-bedroom, two-bathroom homes a short distance from the beach for under $200,000 and fixer-uppers for less than half that. (People can experience the vicarious thrill of owning one of these pieces of paradise by tuning in to the season premiere of Mexico Life on June 4 at 9 and 9:30 p.m. on HGTV.)

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Miami Zika linked to Caribbean outbreak, study finds Miami Herald The Zika virus that spread through South Florida last year likely started two months before it was confirmed, was introduced by at least four infected people and as many as 42 and originated in the Caribbean, according to a new study published ... Zika reached Miami at least four times, Caribbean travel likely responsibleEurekAlert (press release) Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United StatesNature.com all 145 news articles »

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Miami Zika linked to Caribbean outbreak, study finds - Miami Herald