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Ubisoft & Sony Pictures Consumer Products Sign Deal

27th January 2005, 8:13pm
Ubisoft and Sony Pictures Consumer Products have signed an exclusive multi-title licensing agreement that will see games being developed and published based on Open Season and Surfs Up twl feature length animated films by Sony Pictures Animation. This collaboration represents Ubisoft's first venture into adapting CGI films for the videogame market

About Open Season
In the action-adventure comedy Open Season, Boog (Martin Lawrence), a happily domesticated grizzly bear, lives in the tranquil town of Timberline. Timberline is turned upside down when he meets Elliot (Ashton Kutcher), a scrawny, fast-talking wild mule deer. When the unlikely pair find themselves relocated to the wild just three days before hunting season, Boog and Elliot must learn to work together and unite the territorial animals of the forest. In a rowdy and wacky battle, they make the woods safe once and for all by turning the hunters into the hunted.

About Surfs Up
Surf's Up, a mockumentary based on the groundbreaking revelation that surfing was actually invented by penguins. The Film is being directed by Ash Brannon (Toy Story 2) and Chris Buck (Tarzan), and produced by Chris Jenkins (credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Surf's Up and its videogame adaptation are both scheduled for release in summer 2007. CGI animation for both films is by Sony Pictures Imageworks.
by Robert Gardner