i think the movie was okay, but great as a video game adaptation. The theme of the sands of time were great. I hope they make a sequel with the dahaka.

In about a half hour, I'm going to see it so I will edit this to say what I thought of it.

sadly the movie only made $10,200,000 friday only
so i expect around $40 mil for the whole weekend
that doesnt sound good unless the movie have great legs

Yeah I never really expected it to be the next Pirates. I think it will probably end up with at least $125,000,000 in North America though.

After showing some pre-release promise at being the possible breakout VG adaptation movie (in terms of mainstream acclaim and popularity), it seems PoP is going to end up not even being the best of a bad bunch (though it's still the best reviewed live action VG adaptation).

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2798&p=.htm

Box office wise I doubt it'll make $100 million in North America, and it probably won't make $200 million world wide. Meaning it will be a box-office loss maker relying on DVD/BR sales and rentals to make the studio a profit.

We aren't likely to be seeing a sequel. And this movie isn't going to see the mainstreaming of the VG adaptation genre. It's a pity really because this movie was given the budgetary, directorial, and acting talent to give it a good shot at being a mainstream success. But I guess they still fell down on the screenplay front, and without good material to work with the director and actors have a hard battle on their hands.

If they can make a good movie series out of a themepark ride (Pirates) they can surely make a good movie out of a video game.

It made 30 million for the weekend. Sex and the City 2 made 32 million. Shrek 4 took #1 with 43 million.

just watched the movie, and it's not bad, and not great, but worth the money.
it has little bit of "Lord of the Rings", "Indiana Jones", "Mummy", "Pirates of Caribbean", and a lot of
"Assassin's Creed".
Seriously, there were scenes from this film that is a copy of Assassin's Creed game. (Hawk's eye view and all)
Entertaining! Go watch it!

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Not even close... PoP made $30 million... which is really not good considering the budget was 200.

Wow...a $200 million budget...for THAT?!?!?  R u sure...anyway...I thought the film was okay, as a summer action flick, but it was the best video game movie to-date, imho.  Sad to see these totals for the weekend...they are ALOT lower than I expected...I was think in the 45-50 million range, and maybe even a break-out performance in the 50+ range...$30 million is a fail, imho.  This makes me start to get squeezy about the Last Airbender, which is ear the top of the movie's for me this summer...along with Iron Man 2 of course...