Ubisoft was previously stung by a flawed adaptation of another hit game franchise, Prince Of Persia.
"Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (May 28): No, I've never played the video game.
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While common to the caste-like system of Persia, prostration was something the freedom-loving Greeks scorned.
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This ragtag army mustered in Persia, trained in Palestine and fought notably at Monte Cassino in Italy.
The name "Persia" has also been subjected to a long and frustrating discussion.
The 24-year-old was kept away from the Riviera by promotional duties for another film, Disney blockbuster Prince Of Persia.
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Rooted in Persia as a cavalry war exercise more than two millennia ago, polo is returning to postrevolutionary Iran.
As Cyrus the Great was from a Parsi tribe, the name "Persia" was given to the Iranian empire by the Greeks.
Even Disney has had its share of failures like Super Mario Bros. and Prince of Persia (which cost a lot to make).
Could it be that audiences are tired of sequels and movies based on videogames (Prince of Persia) and old TV shows (The A-Team)?
By the end of the 19th century hand-knotted rugs were Persia's largest export to the West and a source of Persian cultural pride.
She goes on to examine the interplay of authority and faith in many other parts of the world, particularly in Persia, India and China.
Alexander the Great, triumphant in so many seemingly impossible battles, made a fundamental error when he took his army from Persia to Afghanistan and India.
Though the world it portrays is fictional (users "time travel" through cartoon landscapes like the Wild West, and ancient Persia), the dilemmas are all real.
Films like Prince of Persia and Sex and the City 2 have underperformed (while still earning multiple hundreds of millions of dollars the box office).
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Arterton, who also starred in Bond movie the Quantum of Solace, was in Hollywood on Monday night for the US premiere of Prince of Persia.
It was already being challenged by oil from Texas and Persia.
He ruled by example, such as in Bactria and Northeast Persia on the wildest of campaigns for three years, and when he emerged from the Gedrosian march.
Its cultural influences, its religious establishments, even its political mechanisms were a remarkable amalgam of Eastern and Western traditions carried here along trade routes from Greece, Persia, Syria, India and China.
Besides BBC Persian, satellite channels include MBC Persia and Farsi1, which airs local-language versions of entertainment shows like "Malcolm in the Middle" and which is half-owned by News Corp.
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He referenced botanical motifs and brocade patterns from civilizations as far back as ancient Greece, and moved up through the Baroque, the Enlightenment and Art Nouveau, taking side trips to Persia, Turkey and China.
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And there are plenty more instances of white actors snagging minority roles: Fans were disappointed when Jake Gyllenhaal was cast as the Prince of Persia, and the lack of Asian actors cast in M.
All of this took place even as the message of the Prophet, Islam, was glorified and the physical boundaries of Islam were rapidly extended beyond the confines of Arabia into Palestine and Syria, into Africa, and into Persia.
Having completed a well-received stint in West End comedy The Little Dog Laughed this spring, she will appear in three films over the summer blockbuster season - Tamara Drewe, Prince Of Persia and low-budget thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed.
And some aides to Netanyahu told The Jewish Daily Forward that it was background reading for the President, given the crisis with Iran, and the Book of Esther is about -- I guess it was called Persia at the time.
Qanats have proved to be an extraordinarily valuable and sustainable traditional technology, which throughout the historical ages has been transferred from ancient Persia where it originated to numerous countries all over the world, particularly those with arid and semi-arid climates.
Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.
Had the Greek from Rhodes called Memnon, who served Persia as a mercenary general (as the Spartan Clearchus had served Cyrus the Younger in his failed attempt to seize the throne from his older brother in 401) not died from illness early on in the campaign, Alexander might have been given a much tougher ride.
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