The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the final 15 contenders for the 2010 Oscar for Best Visual Effects. This is only the first cut, though. Next, members of the Academy's visual effects branch executive committee will select seven of the final 15. At that point, all the members of the visual…
Read MoreFilm Junk reminds us that a milestone has just been crossed: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has become the highest grossing video game movie adaptation of all-time. The film might be a bit of a finacial disappointment as far as Disney is concerned, but Jerry Bruckheimer does have bragging rights. The movie is…
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ComingSoon has gotten their hands on the Russian Poster for Mike Newell's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Click on through to CS to see it in higher resolution. If you missed the recent movie trailer, which was released earlier this week, click here to see it now. OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on IGN. The new trailer incorporates some of the new special effects footage from the Superbowl spot and new "Creating of an Epic" featurette, as well as a lot of never before seen sequences. I'm still not digging…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released a new featurette for the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Titled "Creating an Epic", the three-minute video takes a look at the huge locations with grueling conditions, large set creations, large cast of extras, enormous scope, and "amazing" visual effects.…
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When I look at director Mike Newell's filmography, I'm impressed by its breadth, depth, and quality. It's difficult for me to imagine that the same man who made Donnie Brasco also made Four Weddings and a Funeral, and also made Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Yet despite (or perhaps because of) his eclectic…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Superbowl television trailer. The new television spot gives us a look at some of the film's tentpole special effects-filled sequences. You can watch it now, embedded after the jump. As always, leave your thoughts in the comments below. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/ppsuperbowl.flv 550 230] OFFICIAL…
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Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, based on the UbiSoft reinvention of Jordan Mechner's classic video game, doesn't hit until May 28 2010. But Disney is apparently not so confident that the video game basis will translate to a large audience, so the studio has been pumping out images and footage since the…
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Disney has released a new two-and-a-half-minute behind the scenes featurette for the live-action big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The featurette focuses on Jake Gyllenhaal's character Dastan, and showcases off the film's parkour-style action and the special effects magic of the dagger of time. Watch it…
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Jake Gyllenhaal was on hand at the Spike TV 2009 Video Game Awards to present a "first look" sneak preview of Disney's upcoming big screen adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Watch the 1-minute teaser trailer after the jump. Release Date: May 28, 2010 Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina…
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Planetadisney has a new international poster for Walt Disney Pictures big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I really don't like this poster at all, and especially the obnoxiously loud tagline "COURAGE". Meanwhile, videogamemaker Ubisoft is reporting a $109 million loss on $232 million in sales during the…
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It has been over a year since I boarded a plane to London to visit the Pinewood Studios set of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Disney's big screen adaptation of the popular video game. It's a one hour ride from our hotel near downtown London to Pinewood Studios. Prince of Persia has taken…
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While on the set of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, we had a chance to talk to some of the cast. Below you will find our roundtable interviews with Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton: You've done big movies like The Day After Tomorrow and you've had some opportunities to do a franchise movie,…
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IGN has introduced a cool new feature they are calling “Rewind Theater”, where they rewatch a recent movie trailer with audio commentary with one of the creative people behind the property. The first edition takes a look at Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time with the creator of the game, Jordan Mechner. It's fascinating…
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This billowy denim trend takes relaxed fit to an entirely different level. But don't worry, they're easier (and more fun) to style than you think.
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The latest issue of Empire Magazine features new photos from Disney's big screen adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Mike Newell's film, based on the popular video game, tells the story of an adventurous prince named Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) who teams up with a with Tamina (Gemma Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess,…
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Disney has sent us the US Poster Art for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is essentially the same as the UK one-sheet which was posted yesterday morning. Check out the super high resolution photo after the jump. ComingSoon has a first look at Ben Kingsley as Nizam (seen above), a villainous nobleman…
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Empire has the exclusive debut of two new UK posters for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced adaptation of the Prince of Persia videogame series. And, oooh, they're arty! At first glance, I thought Gemma Arterton's was a magazine cover, and Jake Gyllenhaal's image looks a bit like a prototype Criterion Collection cover from a couple years back.…
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Entertainment Weekly's comic-con preview issue hits store shelves today, and features the above first official photo of Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan from Disney's adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Paparazzi and leaked set photos had appeared online previously. And then there was that small bit of preview footage that aired in…
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The first footage from the Mike Newell-directed big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has aired on an ABC movie special, and is now online. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer explains the plot of the film adaptation, as we see actual footage from the film. We also get to see some of Jake…
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I'm not sure where these photos originated from, but The Huffington Post has two photos of Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan from Disney's adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Mike Newell's film, based on the popular video game, tells the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess…
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Entertainment Tonight visited the London set of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Watch the video above to see some footage from the massive Morocco shoot, and it looks like ET was on set for a night scene where Gemma Arterton's character Princess Tamina is trying to stab Prince Dastan, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.…
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JustJared has the first photo of Jake Gyllenhaal's new look for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is now scheduled to hit theaters on May 28th 2010. What do you guys think? A couple readers point out that Gyllenhaal's gear is more Warrior Within than The Sands of Time (as seen in the header…
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Disney has announced that they will be pushing the big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time back to May 28th 2010, from it's previously announced June 19th 2009 release date. The old date was one week before Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The good news is that the new date is…
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Disney has announced that Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley have been cast in the big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, joining Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace). Disney's live-action adaptation of the popular action adventure video game series, follows an adventurous prince Dastan (Gyllenhaal) who must join forces…
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The Hollywood Reporter has just confirmed a story that was rumored on internet websites last month, Jake Gyllenhaal has been crowned the Prince of Persia in the big screen Disney live-action adaptation of the popular video game series. Prince of Persia is an action adventure video game which follows an adventurous prince who teams up…
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Last week Paramount and Fox announced major post-writers strike schedule shuffles. I speculated that because of 'the rule of threes', that one more studio would announce a reshuffled calendar by Friday. And here we are on Wednesday, with a bunch of new dates from Disney. Let's take a look at the new Disney schedule: The…
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