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When French TV personality/comedian Daniele Rizzo got the opportunity to do interviews with the cast members and director of Prince of Persia, he went the distance and made a memorable impression by dressing up as the grown-up future son of Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton's characters. The reactions from the movie's cast make watching the video worthwhile, especially the way that Ben Kingsley decides to play it in character as the film's villain.

This just in: on the same day as the North American debut of Prince of Persia (May 28), IMAX will also release its own version of the film.

Prince of Persia producer Jerry Bruckheimer believes that his video game adaptation won't be heavy on the suck. He's even got a little bit of evidence to back up his claims: his movie performed better than the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie in front of a test audience.

"We tested the movie a few weeks ago," Bruckheimer told Sci Fi Wire. "It tested extraordinarily high. It surprised me, because I always think these things are going to fail, but this one turned out great. The women [loved it]; I was surprised. I thought we made a terrific movie for the boys, but the women flipped over this film. I've never had a score where the parents—and there is violence [but] it's PG-13—the parents rated the film 100 percent excellent or very good, which never happens. So it's one of these movies that we know they'll take their children to go see it, which is a huge advantage for a film, if the parents think it's cool that the kids can see it."

Finally, the trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is here. Disney has released the trailer online four days before it runs ahead of Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol in theaters. We've been waiting over a year to see if a sea of anglo-saxon actors can pull off Middle Eastern heroes and princesses, well, here it is:

McFarlane Toys is creating the design of action figures and movie play sets based on the upcoming Prince of Persia film. Set for release shortly before the film opens in theaters next May, McFarlane will release a series of four-inch figures, six-inch deluxe figures, horse box sets, movie play sets and a 10-inch collectible piece called The Dagger of Time. The figures will include different costumed versions of the film's hero, Dastan, plus some of his numerous adversaries that he encounters.

"It's always been a dream of mine to work with Disney," commented Todd McFarlane, creator of McFarlane Toys. "Their creative expertise and ability to bring fans top quality entertainment product and iconic characters is second to none. We're really excited about the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time licence, and it's great that we can celebrate McFarlane Toys' fifteen year anniversary by launching this exciting product line worldwide."

Coming Soon has the exclusive look at a new character poster featuring Ben Kingsley's evil wizard, Nizam.

Behold the teaser poster for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Released today and arriving in theater lobbies momentarily, this is the way that most people will have their first impression of the movie -- a swarthy, sword-wielding Jake Gyllenhaal.

Entertainment Weekly was given the opportunity of publishing the first released image of Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan from the film and also got this nice quote from the star about getting his hands dirty doing some action scenes: "I'm tired of taking myself so seriously... It's nice when a stuntman turns to you and is like, 'Actors don't normally do this.'"

Last week ABC offered its viewers of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a special treat for watching the movie: a sneak peek at next summer's Prince of Persia movie. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer was interviewed and he discussed the film's star, Jake Gyllenhaal, his training for the role and some anecdotes about the making of the movie on location in Morocco. Along with the material from Bruckheimer we got to see some actual video from the film: