The blockbuster-movie, Transformers, which came out last month in theaters, had one of the characters call the Persian Gulf... the Arabian Gulf. This Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures made by Michael Bay has made over $500 million world-wide. In another scene of the movie, claimed that the scientists were "too smart" to be Iranian.

Michael Bay is also rumored to be directing the video game adaptation of "Prince of Persia", which is set to be released in summer 2009.