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Ubisoft’s chief executive Yves Guillemot has said that the firm has the capacity to develop its own movies – and has its eye on a film based on the Tom Clancy franchise. However, Guillemot ruled out the possibility of a Rainbow Six movie – and said that any Ubisoft-created cinema …
Read More »Ubisoft snaps up Tom Clancy IP for 60m
Ubisoft will no longer have to pay royalties to Tom Clancy after the new deal goes through, with Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter estimating that Ubisoft will pay around €60 million over three years. Post acquisition, Ubisoft expects to have a net cash position of around €130m by the end …
Read More »Guillemot: Well acquire IP not publishers
Ubisoft may well increase its expansion plans after EA’s bid for Take Two – but is far keener on snapping up established IP than acquiring other publishers. That’s according to a CNN interpretation of a French newspaper interview with Yves Guillemot, who was speaking after EA’s $1.9 billion offer for …
Read More »Guillemot: ‘Bring on the media giants’
The world’s biggest media conglomerates will snap up publishers left, right and centre in the coming months – but they would be wasting their time by tapping up Ubisoft. That’s according to Yves Guillemot, who this week told MCV that he was chomping at the bit to take on the …
Read More »EIF: Guillemot predicts market boom
This upbeat message was given during Guillemot’s keynote speech at today’s Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Nodding towards the success of Nintendo’s Wii and DS in particular, he explained that the expansion of the market will come thanks to new consumers taking up gaming. But he warned that with this growth comes …
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