It will be lucky to reach $200 million overseas, let alone $300 million.

Well, it's true that weather has a much bigger influence on attendance in Europe than in the USA.

I don't know the percentage in other European countries, but here in Germany nice weather usually means drops of 50 % to 70 % at the box office and 80 % for family pictures.

The only exception is when there is nice weather for weeks, than people get used to it. But this year it's on and off again...

Looks like final tally should be 315,000/340,000...

Yeah. People here go to the theaters less in summer (big movies still do well though) than in fall/winter/spring.

That is true, but what the hell is "unseasonably" supposed to mean?! It's the end of May, it's supposed to be warm. If anything it was unseasonably cold before!

Currently at $28.3 million according to BOM.

Yeah, the UK opening was pretty weak: http://www.nme.com/movies/news/streetda ... cin/174180.

How big will this movie be in Iran?

I don't think so it will be that big. I saw a lot of negative articles about not having Persian actors to actually play the lead characters. Apparently people are pissed off that there are whites in a English made Persian film

http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/collecti ... /fp#photo1

Darn that is very poor. I thought the marketing was good for this one. Not sure what went wrong and for the budget of 150M I would say it needs about 250M WW to call it a success. 250M WW looks a bit difficult at this time since last week it was released in 19 territories and did not make much and now it is having the same results in bigger markets.

What? $250m WW wouldn't be a success, and it probably should pass that mark. $300m is the break even point with that budget, so I'd say it'd need at least $400m WW to be considered a financial success.

Yeah I don't see this being a financial success if you set 400m WW as the bar. What I meant was my expectations for this to be a disappointment.

Looking at a 200,000 admissions second weekend here. Should finish ahead of Iron Man, IMO.

The advantage that it has is that while World Cup will severely hurt all films here, it will be the last big action summer blockbuster released everywhere in Europe, so competition-wise there'll be a wasteland here in the upcoming months.

That's funny, because persian ethnicity is much paler skin than what people usually consider "arab". Guess who's stereotyping.

People dont quite understand what Persian is. They do tend to be fairer though there are different shades. I dont see any problem with the characters cast for PoP.

I mean did we see Italian actors in main roles for Gladiator. Or Greeks in Troy? Or Germans in Valkrie. Or Middle Eastern for TPOTC.

From Screendaily

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ruled the international box office this weekend with an estimated gross of $59m. And Sex and the City 2 made a strong international start with big openings in the UK and Germany.

Prince of Persia took its weekend haul from 47 markets, ranking top in 41 of them, said distributor Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI). The $59m take pushed the fantasy adventure’s running international total to $87.5m, 39% ahead of National Treasure in the same group of markets and time frame, 1% behind Iron Man and 24% behind Clash of the Titans.

Prince of Persia opened in Russia with an estimated $9.7m, topping the opening of Iron Man 2 by more than 30%, said WDSMPI, and almost doubling the opening take of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

In China, Prince opened with $8.1m, the second biggest opening (after Alice in Wonderland) Disney has ever had in the territory.

Prince opened top in France with $5.5m, beating the openings of 300 and Troy by almost 10%, according to WDSMPI, and that of Prince Caspian by nearly 20%.

The film’s chart-topping $4.3m opening in Korea almost matched the debut of Alice in Wonderland and beat the openings of 300 and Troy by 15%.

Mexico produced a chart-dominating $3.7m opening, 20% ahead of Troy but 25% behind Prince Caspian, which was a major hit in the country.

Australia produced a number one opening of $2.9m, matching the start in that market, said Disney, of The Mummy 3.

Prince was down only 20% in its second weekend in Germany, taking $2.3m for a total to date in the country of $7m. And it was up 9% in its second weekend in the UK, taking $2.2m for a territory total of $5.6m.


Seems much more impressive than we all expected.

Will probably hit over 300 million WW. Might even be enough for a crappier sequel.

I think this will fall hard in the coming weeks and I see that will help Shrek and TS3 since they will be releasing after WC which means people would have had a break from movies. During WC I don't think many people will watch this anyways.

Also I would say that this being in second week of its release and just nearing 90M is OK (definitely not a disappointment) but not great as well.

300M WW might not happen if it misses 100M domestically (very strong chance that this will happen). I would say 250M WW for now and with a production budget of 200M I would say the sequel might be hard to think. Though I am still sure the DVD sell-outs will be huge

I've actually heard nothing but great WOM from normal people so far. The budget is 150, not 200 million. So a 275 WW is enough for it to break even and boost Video Game sales and DVDs will help.

I'm not sure where the bad W.O.M. claim is coming from.

One thing is certain, though - we will not see a sequel.

Why is that exactly?

Because it will not be a big moneymaker. It might break even...but just breaking even does not assure a sequel nowadays, not when talking about blockbusters (remember sequels to blockbusters are usually more expensive than the original films).