User blog comment:J Fan/Pirates 5 - Sequel News Rundown/@comment-12320611-20130808102109/@comment-1984959-20130808194620

To this day, I've no idea if these budget-related reports are accurate. I recall that for P4 Terry Rossio responded in saying that it was a non-story...I'd assume the same can be said now, the only difference being there were no comments from those involved.

Don't think it would affect P5 too badly, but seems budget can go a bit over the deep end in madness. My opinion, I'm OK just as long as they don't go lower than CotBP's budget - according to Box Office Mojo, it was $140 million. Other than that, I hope for good things in negotiations for the budget.