{"id":3501,"date":"2011-05-02T19:44:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2011-05-02T19:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:44:53","slug":"ubisoft-launching-film-studio-for-game-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/ubisoft-launching-film-studio-for-game-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Launching Film Studio for Game Adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/165734_S\/ubisoft-aiming-high-with-new-toronto-studio.jpg\" alt=\"Ubisoft Aiming High With New Toronto Studio\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Game developer Ubisoft, famous for creating AAA franchises like <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed <\/em>and <em>Prince of Persia<\/em> is launching a new film studio dedicated entirely to video game adaptations according to an article in Variety.  The Paris-based film division will be run by Jean-Julien Baronnet, and,  &#8220;producer Didier Lupfer is in charge of production and development,  while Jean de Rivieres, former topper of distribution at Walt Disney  Studios Motion Pictures France, handles marketing and international  sales,&#8221; said Variety.<\/p>\n<p>In a time where most of us can agree that video game movie franchises  are crap, Ubisoft has a lot to work with and has proven that it can be  done well. Their<em> Prince of Persia <\/em>film adaptation grossed about $335 million world wide, the highest of any video game movie. So with properties like <em>Splinter Cell, Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em>, and <em>Ghost Recon<\/em>,  if Ubisoft can capitalize on the world of the games instead of  following the game&#8217;s story exactly, this might be a very fruitful  venture.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thefeed\/blog\/post\/712306\/ubisoft-launching-film-studio-for-game-adaptations\/#ixzz1LF3EQ19l\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game developer Ubisoft, famous for creating AAA franchises like Assassin&#8217;s Creed and Prince of Persia is launching a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}