While On Stranger Tides recouped its astronomical budget, the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie took a risk that Pirates of the Caribbean 6 cannot afford to repeat. Like many blockbuster franchises, Pirates of the Caribbean seemed too big to fail. After the sleeper hit success of the original 2003 movie The Curse of the Black Pearl, Disney took a big gamble on two back-to-back sequels that cost a whopping $225 million and $300 million respectively. This risk paid off as the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies earned around a billion dollars each (with the second making $1.066 billion while the third earned $966 million).
Author Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple is one of the most iconic and celebrated literary sleuths of all time. The amateur investigator was first introduced in the 1930 novel Murder at the Vicarage , appearing in 11 subsequent novels up until 1976. The character has been portrayed on the stage, on radio, and for our purposes, on the big and small screen several times since the character's screen debut in 1961. Over the past 60 years, Miss Marple has been portrayed by several actresses, many of whom hail from different parts of the world. To see who did Miss Marple the most justice on screen, scroll below. Updated July 21st, 2022 by George Chrysostomou: Agatha Christie's works are still influencing the industry today and Miss Marple is among her most famous creations. With the Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion , taking the audience back to the genre, it's well worth checking out these classic portrayals of one of the best detectives out there featuring some fantastic Mis...
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