Smaller Ships

The Pirates of the Caribbean are going work with less treasure for the next pic in the series reports The Los Angeles Times.

The studio has decided to enforce a tighter constrained budget which producer "Jerry Bruckheimer is scrambling to meet" before filming begins on June 14th.

The first Pirates cost $140 million, the next 2 films bloated to a whopping $225 million and $300 million bucks. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides will be cut back but still come in around $200 million.

To achieve this the film's shoot is expect to run around three months instead of the nearly five months it took to film the last one, while visual effects shots will be cut from around 2,000 to 1,300. Also expect more land-based filming.

Bruckheimer says tighter purse strings has caused him to "make painful decisions that cut into some very entertaining sequences."

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