Quick news update here. When I saw Prince of Persia when it came out, I thought it was pretty good. It was a great action/adventure blockbuster. It wasn’t perfect, it had some problems, but it was fun anyways. It was what it was. But with that said, to me, it’s one of the best video game-to-movie adaptations ever; if not the best.
Now POP has officially become the highest grossing video game movie ever!
Yes, PRINCE OF PERSIA now has officially become the highest grossing video game movie ever, as it’s just surpassed $300M worldwide. The problem? The production budget plus marketing costs is around $300M, meaning the film has just broken even. I have to kind of blame Disney for that though. $300M is a very impressive haul for a movie as average as PRINCE OF PERSIA, and thinking it was going to put up MASSIVE numbers was being far too optimistic if you ask me.
What movie did the Prince unseat? That would be LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER ($274M), a pretty terrible movie in its own right, but one that had everyone who had ever played a video game turn out to see their buxom polygoned heroine brought to life by Angelina Jolie.
I’m not surprised at all. I’m glad that this movie is now on the top of this list. What do you guys think? May we see a POP sequel now?
