OK, so it's not much of a record, but it's a record none-the-less.

With only 3 weekends of release Prince of Persia is now the highest grossing VG adaptation movie in the foreign box offie (i.e. every country other than USA). This from Box Office Mojo:

"Prince of Persia was down 39 percent to $37.6 million in its second weekend for a foreign total of $156.4 million. This now stands as the highest foreign gross ever for a video game adaptation, passing Lara Croft: Tomb Raider's $143.5 million. While Persia did not have any substantial new openings, it did see solid second weekend performances in Russia ($5.5 million), China ($4.4 million), Brazil ($3.6 million), France ($3 million), Mexico ($2.6 million), South Korea ($2.4 million) and Australia ($1.6 million)."

Looking like a good chance to also beat Tomb Raider for the WW highest grossing VG adaptation ever, needing only another $58 million to cross that mark. It suffered a big 53% 2nd weekend drop in the US, so it looks like it really isn't going to catch on in the States like it has the rest of the world.

I'm pretty sure that if it gets close to $300 million at the box office then with the DVD sales and rentals this will guarantee the movie will be profitable for Disney, which means a likely sequel. Audiences are definitely liking it much more than the pompous critics that seem to automatically mark movies down for being VG adaptations.

I wonder if anyone has done a meta-analysis to see what fares the best / worst with critics: VG-->movie adaptations or movie -->VG adaptations.

Congrats! I haven't seen it yet but it looks cool. Hopefully Resident Evil: Afterlife will do this good  :P

i am going to watch it this weekend havent had much time but everyone has said thats its really good and i am happy for it because PoP is one of my favorite remake series, not a big fan of the original but it inspired the glory that was the SoTs and the new PoP that i, for one, enjoyed, throughly.

no it din't break any records

and companring it to any other video game adaption is foolish as its budget and marketing were far greater

and just barely profiting is not what studios want when they put $200m plus MARKETING COSTS into a movie

good too see, i really liked the movie. hope it can do $300 million total sales ww, because i want another movie.

nice to hear, i won tickets to the premiere and it actually wasn't as full as i expected it to be which was disappointing. also, after all the negative reviews, this sounds nice for the franchise.

i don't see what was bad w/ it. It was essentially pirates of the carribean aladdin w/ weaker acting (johnny depp's fault). Very fun movie. and alfred molina was great!! lol, i love ostriches as well

but.... it still isn't a profit, let's hope it makes it soon

Remember a blockbuster is only succesfull ( by the industry - investers), when it makes back two to three times the investment.

Remember the last Superman-movie. In their eyes it really flopped, because it made a bit of profit. That's why they might go for a rebrand of Superman - Again.   

Is this movie any good? I might just go watch it.

I predicted it would reach 350$ million. Too bad it's not as popular as expected in the domestic market.