Finally, True Hollywood and Videogame Convergence?

Ever since Atari paid $21 million for the rights to make a videogame based on “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”–and then gave a programmer just six weeks to make it–there’s been a disconnect between Hollywood and the videogame world.

Sure, Hollywood makes movies out of games, and vice versa. But rarely do the two worlds meet in a collaborative way.

French game publisher Ubisoft–which has worked with John McTiernan on the “Tom Clancy Splinter Cell” games, Peter Jackson on the “King Kong” game and, most recently, James Cameron on the “Avatar” game–is moving to change all that.

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