Movie : Pirates of the Caribbean

             Pirates of the Caribbean

             Johnny Depp has gained more than a pirate’s ransom for playing Jack Sparrow in the four “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, TheWrap has learned.

He’s earned close to $350 million from the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced franchise, according to an individual with knowledge of his deals.

Disney disputed the sum, calling it "highly inaccurate" but declined to provide any details.

Another individual close to the franchise said the number was closer to $280 million for the four Pirates combined.

With the fourth installment, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” passing the billion-dollar mark at the global box office over the weekend, the haulmakes Depp the highest-paid actor in recent Hollywood history.

Depp made three separate deals for the movie franchise, including a deal for installments 2 and 3, and another for number 4.

                    The "Pirates" franchise has taken in about $3.7 billion in ticket receipts at the worldwide box office alone. That does not include hundreds of millions of dollars more for each film in DVD, cable TV, merchandizing and other back-end revenues.

On its most recent list of top-earning actors, Forbes magazine estimated that Depp made $75 million between June 2009 and June 2010.

The actor probably won't fare poorly on the next Forbes list, either.

In December, he appeared in the GK Films-produced thriller "The Tourist" alongside Angelina Jolie. The $100 million film bombed stateside, grossing just $67.6 million. But Depp's strong international appeal helped salvage the movie, which made $210.7 million abroad.

Depp also voice-starred in Paramount's "Rango," a CG film that put the studio into the animation business for the first time without the help of DreamWorks. That film started strong in the U.S. and Canada. Ironically, however, it sputtered a bit abroad, taking in $242.6 million worldwide on a production spend of about $135 million.Even Johnny Depp can't win them all.

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