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Ubisoft founds motion picture division, vows to keep Jake Gyllenhaal working

Quick show of hands: how many of you like playing video games? And how many of you would like to watch movies based on video games you've played? No doubt slightly more sophisticated market research went into Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the game maker's unique approach to adapting games like Assassin's Creed  and  Splinter Cell  for film and TV, meaning we'll finally see movies about assassins. Last year's  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time  film grossed $335 million worldwide, surely thanks to Jake Gyllenhaal's smoldering yet boyish intensity, and the French game publisher clearly wants a bigger slice of Hollywood pie -- it also recently bought visual effects studio Hybride Technologies. You might as well get in line now for  Battle Tag: The Movie . Joystiq Variety