At 129 minutes, it was the shortest of the existing POTC films.Its production budget was $230 million.The box-office results were modest in the US: $172.6 million (domestic) and $794.9 million (worldwide).At the time, it was the second lowest-grossing film of the series.With the tagline: "All pirates must die."Although co-stars Orlando Bloom (as Will Turner) and Keira Knightley (as Elizabeth Swann) had said they wouldn't return o the franchise and were missing from the previous film, they both appeared in the film.He attended a top-secret Intelligence briefing with CIA Director Cabot and various Congressmen, who feared that Nemerov was a "hard-liner," tied to the military and wanted to rebuild the Russian Empire.Frustrated and angry, he considered himself grown-up, although she cautioned: "Don't try to grow up too fast.She stated: "I have something very wonderful in me, you'll see."She made new friends quickly including kindly, paternalistic veteran stage actor Robert Harley Hedges (C.They were about to embark on a determined, adventurous quest to reclaim their Dwarvish homeland and the gold treasure stolen many years earlier from the kingdom of Erebor by the "terrible" dragon Smaug.