Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a 2010 fantasy-adventure film written by Jordan Mechner, Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, and Carlo Bernard; directed by Mike Newell; and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film is based on the 2003 video game of the same name, developed and released by Ubisoft Montreal.
The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan, Gemma Arterton as Princess Tamina, Ben Kingsley as Nizam, and Alfred Molina as Sheik Amar.
The film has the same title as and being primarily based on the video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time; elements from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, two other titles from the Prince of Persia video game franchise, are also incorporated.
Box office:
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which, according to Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer, was supposed to be “the new Pirates of the Caribbean”, debuted #3 at the box office behind Shrek Forever After and Sex and the City 2 with $30.1 million in its first 3-day weekend of release. It is also the third highest opening for a video game adaptation, behind Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Pokémon: The First Movie. Internationally, the film grossed $18 million in its first week, when it opened in 19 major European countries.Prince of Persia debuted at #1 in these countries, except UK where it lost the top spot to StreetDance 3D. A week later the film was released in the rest of the world and it grossed $59 million in total of 47 countries, becoming the leader of worldwide box office, while reaching the #1 spot in 40 of the 47 countries.
As of June 8, 2010, the film has earned $62,766,979 in the United States and $156,400,000 in foreign countries with a total worldwide gross of $219,166,979. Making it in this case a box office success so far, despite being only around 19 million dollars above the budget. Thus far, the box office revenues have been a disappointment.
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