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With Johnny’s Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest debuting with an all time box office record, Mr. Deep has undoubtedly become one of Hollywood’s box office stars. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest took in a record $132 million in its first three days, and the previous box office champ was 2002′s “Spider-Man,” which took in $114.8 million in its first weekend. This is despite some negative reviews for the film. Although the fact that the film opened on 4000 screens probably didn’t hurt either.

Despite sky-high projections for the “Pirates” sequel from industry analysts, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said he had expected “Dead Man’s Chest” to open closer to the $77 million debut weekend of last spring’s “The Da Vinci Code.”

“When people in the industry predicted these high numbers, I thought they were just trying to be mean. So no matter how good we did, if we did $100 million, we’d be failures,” Bruckheimer told The Associated Press on Sunday. “I didn’t think we’d get near these numbers.”

Depp’s current box office success is especially sweet since he’s had a rough time over the years. Prior to the first ‘Pirates’ film, Deep’s biggest hit was 1999′s “Sleepy Hollow“, which did just over $100,000,000 at the box office.

More photos of Johnny Depp at the French premiere of ‘Pirates,’ after the jump.

Depp’s ‘Pirates Scores Record $132M Debut [ABC News]

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