The Walt Disney Company’s Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides will release in China on May 20, day and date with U.S. and most of the world, playing in all formats, including 3D and IMAX-3D, a company spokesman said late Tuesday.
备受期待的暑期档大片《加勒比海盗4：惊涛怪浪》已经确定引进中国内地，并将于5月20日全球同步上映。这部由迪士尼电影出品的奇幻巨制届时将会以2D、3D、IMAX 3D格式上映。

The film will be one of the 20 imported titles allowed to recoup between 13-17 percent of its box office gross in China each year. China’s box office jumped 64 percent in 2010 to $1.5 billion and Hollywood studios are ever more keen to get their biggest titles into the market that, with an explosion the sale of premium 3D and IMAX tickets, saw Avatar gross more than $200 million in China alone.
该部电影可以作为20部进口分账大片之一，享受13%-17%的票房分账。中国电影2010年的票房剧增了64%，达到15亿美元，好莱坞各电影公司更加迫不及待能够让其电影打入中国市场，而随着3D和IMAX影片的发展，去年《阿凡达》光是在中国就净收2亿美元。

Pirates 4 brings back Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow and revives the franchise’s original bad guy, Geoffrey Rush. It also adds Penelope Cruz as a beautiful trickster who tangles romantically with Captain Jack and Ian McShane as a fearsome new villain.
《加勒比海盗4》虽然是续集，实际上除了几个关键角色，故事与前三集的关联并不大。这集另辟蹊跷，讲述了一个全新的传奇：约翰尼·德普(Johnny Depp)饰演的Jac船长被英国国王乔治二世抓住，受命去寻找传说中的“不老泉”，与他一同前往的还有他的老朋友，已经被招安了的巴博萨船长。然而这趟航程出师不顺，Jack船长遇到了他的老情人安洁丽卡（佩内洛普·克鲁兹饰），他不清楚她究竟是真的爱自己，还是在利用他寻找“不老泉”。不过Jack还是被迫上了她的贼船，和她的父亲——臭名昭著、令人不寒而栗的海盗“黑胡子”（伊恩·麦柯肖恩饰）一起展开了前途叵测的冒险。几位各自心怀鬼胎的主角在这趟混杂着海盗、军队、僵尸、美人鱼的旅程中勇往直前，谁将最先到达“不老泉”？而这神奇的泉水，又藏着什么秘密？（该剧情来源于新浪娱乐）

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was released in China in June of 2007, in the pre-3D era here and without the benefit of a lead-in from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which was banned for its supernatural themes. Nonetheless, Pirates 3 grossed over 120 million yuan (about $18.3 million today).
《加勒比海盗3：世界的尽头》2007年6月在中国上映，当时还没有3D电影，也没有《加勒比海盗2：聚魂棺》的积累效应（该部电影由于涉及超自然主题未能在中国上映），但《加勒比海盗3》当时仍然取得了超过1.2亿元（约1830万美元）的票房总收入。

The Pirates name has proven itself one of the most lucrative film franchises of the 21st century, taking in a combined total of more than $2.6 billion in box office returns worldwide.
《加勒比海盗》已是新世纪最赚钱的影片系列之一，全球仅电影票房收入就超过了26亿美元。