Ubisoft Film & Television

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Ubisoft Motion Pictures
Company typeDivision of Ubisoft
IndustryFilm
Television
FoundedJanuary 2011; 13 years ago (January 2011)[1]
HeadquartersRennes, France
Key people
Yves Guillemot
(Chairman)[2]
Gerard Guillemot
(CEO)
ParentUbisoft
WebsiteUbisoft Motion Pictures official Website

Ubisoft Motion Pictures is a division of the French global video game publisher and developer Ubisoft. It is a film and television production company responsible for the adaptations' creative control of their games.[3]

History

On July 2008, Ubisoft acquired the Quebec-based visual effects studio Hybride Technologies.[4]

Ubisoft Motion Pictures was created in January 2011 as a division of Ubisoft.[5] The studio's first production, Rabbids Invasion, began broadcasting in August 2013.

In December 2013, the French theme park Futuroscope opened the Raving Rabbids-based attraction ''Les Lapins Cretins', produced by Ubisoft Motion Pictures, Jora Vision and Futuroscope.[6][7]

In September 2015, Ubisoft Motion Pictures announced that they will produce a "next-generation" theme park to be built in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by 2020, based on Ubisoft's intellectual property.[8][9]

Productions

Television series

Year Title Co-production Network
2013–present Rabbids Invasion TeamTO, France Télévisions and Nickelodeon Productions Nickelodeon (Episodes 1–34, 40–44), Nicktoons (Episodes 35–39, 45–Present), France 3 and Kix

Films

Year Title Co-production with Distributor(s) Budget Gross
2016 Assassin's Creed Regency Enterprises, DMC Films, Alpha Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company and RatPac-Dune Entertainment 20th Century Fox $150–200 million TBA
TBA Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell New Regency and Thunder Road[10] TBA TBA TBA
Watch Dogs New Regency Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox TBA TBA
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Platinum Dunes Warner Bros. Pictures TBA TBA
Rabbids Stoopid Buddy Stoodios Columbia Pictures TBA TBA
Far Cry[11] TBA TBA TBA TBA
Assassin's Creed 2[12] New Regency and DMC Films 20th Century Fox TBA TBA
Tom Clancy's The Division[13] TBA TBA TBA TBA

References

  1. ^ Ubisoft And Sony Pictures Bringing Rabbids To The Big Screen
  2. ^ List of the directors - Ubisoft Group
  3. ^ Ubisoft launches film, TV shingle
  4. ^ "Ubisoft achète Hybride Technologies | Michel Munger | Économie". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  5. ^ "Ubisoft® Rabbids ™ Invasion - The Tv Series Interactive" (PDF). Ubisoft. Ubisoft. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  6. ^ "Rabbids Time Machine Ride Is 2014's Best Attraction - UbiBlog - Ubisoft®". UbiBlog - Ubisoft®. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  7. ^ Littaye, Alain (2013-12-08). "Futuroscope New Attraction "Raving Rabbids" - Full Report and POV HD Ride Video !". Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  8. ^ "Ubisoft Announces Plans for Next-Generation Theme Park in Malaysia - UbiBlog - Ubisoft®". UbiBlog - Ubisoft®. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  9. ^ "Ubisoft Film Division to Launch Theme Park in Malaysia". Variety. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  10. ^ New Regency, Ubisoft Set Producer Basil Iwanyk To Steer ‘Splinter Cell’
  11. ^ "Ubisoft To Make Movies Based on 'Watch Dogs,' 'Far Cry,' 'Rabbids' (EXCLUSIVE)".
  12. ^ "Assassin's Creed Movie Sequel Coming, Fassbender on Board - Report". gamespot.com.
  13. ^ http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jake-gyllenhaal-the-division-movie-1201742202/

External links

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