Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Ubisoft Launching Their Own Motion Picture Division to Make Movies

It looks like video game maker Ubisoft wasn't too happy with the way Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time turned out either. Variety reports that French company Ubisoft is launching a new division called Ubisoft Motion Pictures to adapt and develop its own game franchises into movies and TV shows. CEO Yves Guillemot made the announcement at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, via GameSpot, but didn't mention any projects they're working on. The new film division will be based out of Paris and include a staff with the former CEO of Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and former Walt Disney France executive in distribution. Read on!

This is a very bold first step for a video game manufacturer to finally enter the movie world on their own. But apparently it's not because they really want to, oddly. "We will start making movies not because we want to, but because this is what we ...

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