Pirates of Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hasn’t even opened up in the U.S. yet and it’s already broken box office records.

The film debuted in 70 countries on Wednesday and has already grossed $18.5 million – $5 million more than Pirates 3.

In Russia, it made $5 million on its opening day, giving Russia it’s biggest movie opening to date. This could be due to the fact that Johnny Depp attended the Moscow premiere, a first for the franchise. Star Geoffrey Rush attended the Australia premiere, while Penelope Cruz took a trip back home to attend the Spanish premiere in Madrid.

It made $3.2 million in the UK and also had huge openings in Italy and Sweden.

source: Perezhilton.com

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ photocall was held in Madrid, Spain today (May 18th), and updated the gallery with high quality photos!

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Public Appearances > Appearances 2011 > ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Photocall in Madrid – 5/18/11

Penelope is featured in the June, 2011 issue of Vogue Magazine! I’ve added the photos to the gallery (click the below image to view more), and the interview is posted below..  enjoy!

There are oddities that make sense only in Los Angeles—canary-yellow Rolls-Royces, lasagna cupcakes, agents. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is another. Here is a boulevard where Meryl Streep shares the glory with Erik Estrada; where Audrey Hepburn earns the same real estate as Rin Tin Tin; where a Spider-Man impersonator once socked a Charlie Chaplin impersonator in the face. The Walk is America’s most accessible shrine to show-business fantasy: If you dream big enough, one day your name could be commemorated on this hallowed ground in gold letters. And then a sunburned dude with a green parrot on his shoulder will roller-skate right over it.

It’s a warm Friday in April when the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce awards its 2,436th star to Penélope Cruz. She is a woman who, growing up in Spain, saw a photo of a bedazzled Michael Jackson kneeling before his red-carpeted star and never imagined she would one day do the same. “It sounded like science fiction,” she says, her famous inflection deliciously animating the term. When Cruz first moved to Los Angeles, she spoke little English and lived in a tiny hotel room she shared only with cats. Cats, plural. “I was very lonely,” she says. “I would find cats in the street and take them with me. I raised a lot of cats in that period.”

The cats all found nice homes, Cruz assures me in a way that recalls those end-of-film disclaimers (no animals were harmed during the making of Penélope Cruz). In the years since, Cruz, too, has found a more comfortable place in America, evolving from a misused ornament in Hollywood movies to one of the most celebrated actresses of her generation, a multilingual Oscar winner and muse to giants like Pedro Almodóvar and Woody Allen. Today her home—whether in Los Angeles, New York, or Madrid—is shared with her new husband, the acclaimed Spanish actor, fellow Oscar winner, and occasional on-screen lover Javier Bardem. A couple of months ago, there was a tender new addition: a son, Leonardo, the couple’s first child.

It has been a staggering journey. “I don’t think people realize the barriers Penélope’s broken,” says Rob Marshall, who directed Cruz in 2009’s Nine as well as the brand-new Pirates of the Caribbean installment, On Stranger Tides, in which she joins the misadventures of Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. “There is really no one like her.”
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I’ve updated the gallery with photos of Penelope at the UK Premiere of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which was was held today (May 12th)! Enjoy the photos!

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Public Appearances > Appearances 2011 > Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – UK Premiere – 5/12/11

Penelope is featured in the June issue of GQ Magazine and I’ve added scans of the interview and photos to the gallery..  enjoy!

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Magazine Scans > Scans from 2011 > GQ – June 2011

The world premiere of “Pirates Of The Caribbean:  On Stranger Tides” was held on Sat (May 7th) at Walt Disney World in CA.  Penelope looked absolutely stunning! I’ve updated the gallery with lots of high quality photos!

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Public Appearances > Appearances 2011 > Premiere of “Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” – 5/7/11