Disney's 'Prince of Persia' becomes highest grossing game movie to date

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We're quite surprised to report that Disney's movie adaptation of Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has become the highest grossing video game movie to date, according to Box Office Mojo. Until recently the reigning champ of video game adaptations was Paramount's Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight, but the key to Prince of Persia's success has been its international revenue.

Although only raking in $80.5 million in the US, the film has generated a total of $213.1 million internationally, totaling $293.6 million. The key to the film's success has no doubt been the Disney branding coupled with the name recognition of Jerry Bruckheimer. It also scored much higher than Tomb Raider on review aggregate site Metacritic.com. Hopefully the trend of quality game-based films will continue to slowly erode the stigma they currently have. (*cough* Ewe Boll *cough*)

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