w00t!

this is awsome news these guys deserve their props.............salute to UBISOFT!!!!!

I'm happy. I live in montreal and because of all these job opening I'm actually thinking of studying graphic design.

"Finally! My government is actually sponsoring something with potential!

Serious, too. They spent over C$5 million on a study entitled "What makes people fat." Useless."

Knowing our government, that is certainly believable. As much as I'm annoyed with Québec, I hope it won't go, and I'm glad new markets are opening up.

Finally! My government is actually sponsoring something with potential!

Serious, too. They spent over C$5 million on a study entitled "What makes people fat." Useless.

short films? why not full length films? i think the splinter cell movie should be completely CGI...

just hope the movie is good

don't care much. but i get a feeling they want to fight money with ea

I hope that those "short films" will be as good as those made by Pixar.

this should be cool- i usually like Ubisoft games

notice how it says "Short films", so i doubt that we will get any full length blockbuster films based on our fav games for a while at least.

Seriously, i dont really care about it.
Ubisoft Montreal Studios have never renewed my contract (I was a fonctionnalities tester). I was supposed to be renewed in may 2006. The worse thing is... they did not sent my copy of Farcry Predator. When someone from Ubisoft is working on a videogame project, he's supposed to receive the game at the end.

I hope they don't go through the same difficulties as Square.

I wish the house of commons would give me $8 million.

Just a little correction: The 454 million$ come from Ubisoft, not the government, and the 8 million$ isn't given, it's a loan...

But that's great news nonetheless...

Go Canada?

OMG!!!!!!!!!!

Could this mean Tom Clancy movies!?!?!?!?

Red Storm Rising, Executive Orders, Rainbow Six, Some totally original WW3 film regarding the nuclear apocalyspe Iran is planning!?!?!?!?

Ubisoft is already keeping my 360 warm, and despite the fact they're canadian, i hope they continue to dominate!

Finally, maybe they'll make 'R' rated CG movies. Maybe super hero movies will finally start being as cool as they sound.

Maybe Ubisoft is using the money from sloppy Wii ports for this studio...

"General public"?
Soooo, no Rayman?

HAHA ......383 million dollar grant to an already well established __extraordinarily profitable__ company......

Check your numbers, bud. I'm not even sure Ubi turned out an operating profit last year................

Prince of persia movie? hmmm... as long as this doesn't turn out like Square which has amazing animation but crappy storylines...

RE: Cloud737: The government is doing it to create the jobs
Ubisoft also needs the money to help expand.

HAHA ......383 million dollar grant to an already well established extraordinarily profitable company...... HAHAHAHAHA I guess its not as bad as my tax dollars paying for a war in iraq.....

I hope this means a movie for the Rabbids.

Re SpeedNut_CV: EA is worst and the majority knows it.

Of course the first movie from Ubisoft would be Rayman,since splinter cell should be live-action.

I love Ubisoft's game (i am especially waiting for Assassin's creed :p).
So go boy! go !

I wonder if they'll fix the character models on their screen from falling through gaps in the textures... LMAO. They can't QA games properly, what faith does anyone have that the quality of their CG movie studio would be anything higher than what you would find at the local trash dump.

Wait...the Canadian government is giving free money to Ubisoft to create a movie studio that will bring it even more money? That`s it, I`m moving to Canada!

Rayman the Movie?
(please Ubisoft!)

but their movies will not run on newer tv's

still waiting on my ss:da fix ubi, 1 thing at a time

Go UBI ..... DIE EA !!!

Re Spartan4001: They're already in a pre-production for a live-action movie of Splinter Cell for 2010 & Prince of Persia for 2008. Check IMDb.

ReconHunter : that game is played in all industries, in all countries. That's just how it works... what do you think tips the balance as to where a company will establish a new office, studio, or factory in a developed country? Grants and loans. I mean, if you wanna talk about that, I can tell you that the oil industry in Alberta is one of the most heavily subsidized industries in all of Canada. Do you really think THEY need it ?? I'm pretty sure Ubi needs that more than Esso...

As for Ubi's cutscenes being not that great, it's true. But 90% of them are outsourced, too.

So is Jack Carver going to be killing mercenaries on my TV?

NOOOOO! There's too many CG movies already!

This is going to be awesome. I mean the cinamatics of Prince of Persia series showed what Ubi is capable off.

I'm not saying governements should not help companies. I'm saying they should use that money to help companies who really need the money. It might be wiser to help businesses in certain key areas that do need the cash. I don't recall Ubisoft being in need of federal money. The investment isn't totally bad, but it's certainly not the best. I mean 1000 jobs is good, but disloyal towards the economy of other countries. I am certain Ubisoft could have afforded the whole cost of the project if they wanted to do it. Right now, in Canada, companies constantly keep asking for government founds just for the extra cash. There are going to be elections very soon and the Conservatives do need the extra votes in Quebec. I'm just not into the pre-elections handouts thing, I guess.

Ubi's cutscenes aren't actually that good. Oddly though, ths deal doesn't seem to surprise me that much.

Here is another Square soft! Ubisoft is one of the biggest publisher and developer in the world but they lost all money because of this studio. Maybe EA is gonna eat it.
(somebody told me EA means Eat All)

yboucher , I think that his point had more to do with the fact that the West (Ok mainly Alberta) is drawing everyone out of the East, causing a bit of housing crisis in terms of cost in the larger cities along the way. Ottawas' investment in putting 1000 more jobs in Montreal was seen as adding a kind of counter balance to Albertas massive pull. Of course I could be reading into it the wrong way but I think Blacklices' point went beyond employment by video game companies.

Blacklice, are you freaking kidding ?? Ubi's largest creation studio by far is the one in Montreal !! They're the ones who created and handle the Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell franchises, among others, not to mention the upcoming Assassin's Creed !! Video game development employs easily more than 3,000 people already in Quebec, so we are totally BLOWING AWAY Western Canada in terms of that market ! BioWare and Relic are fairly small independent studios. Meanwhile Montreal has both the largest Ubi studio, and one of the largest EA studios. Please check your facts, come on.

Come on BG&E movie!
Now for the money, they are getting almost $500 million to create 1000 jobs in Quebec? Please tell me it wasn't the Harper government that signed off on this one.... although Blacklice does have point.

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Oh noes! UBISOFT is Taking Over!

Its great Ottawa is trying to employ the people in the East they need it. It shouldn't be that everyone in Canada lives in Calgary or Edmonton. Housing is already way to high in Alberta. We in the West have Relic and Bioware need ssomething in the East, balance the scale out.

God, if they ever turn to making movies for profit and waste Splinter Cell on an animated movie instead of a live action feature, I'm gonna be pissed.

maybe they should forget the whole thing and concentrate on making quality games instead of the crap that the wii got

Just like some folks who mentioned it already, perhaps this could be a way to develop and end the "Beyond Good and Evil" saga: just bring it to film. I'd still prefer the games, but hey, I'll take what I can get out of the BG&E universe.