Martin Scorsese has taken his first plunge into both family filmmaking and 3D with Hugo, which adapts the Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret with Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz in the lead roles. We've got a look at the first teaser poster for the film, in advance of the upcoming trailer release.…
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Soon the film will simply be called 'H.' I'm very excited to see footage from Martin Scorsese's new film, which is his first 3D project, and his first aimed at a family audience. Based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the film had until recently been called simply Hugo Cabret, but has now…
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The tweet pretty much says it all. As if you needed another reason to head to the theater on July 15, the first look at director Martin Scorsese's 3D family film Hugo Cabret could possibly be attached to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. However, while the tweet looks legit, it should be…
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Martin Scorsese is finishing up Hugo Cabret, his first foray into family films and 3D. The film is based on Brian Selznick's children's book The Invention of Huog Cabret, and has nods to the early days of cinema and science fiction. We've known the cast for some time; Asa Butterfield and Chloë Moretz as an…
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Re-adjust your countdown clock for the Martin Scorsese 3D family movie Hugo Cabret. Originally scheduled for release on December 9 by Sony, the film will now be released November 23 by Paramount. Starring Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Christopher Lee, Emily Mortimer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Helen McCrory, Frances…
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If you read my top ten of 2010 you saw that, despite some diamonds in the rough, I felt 2010 was largely unimpressive in terms of film. Well, if potential says anything, 2011 is going to be amazing. We've got new films from filmmakers like Terrence Malick, Michel Gondry, Ron Howard and Jodie Foster, incredible…
Read MoreAlmost exactly one year from today, we'll all get our chance to see a 3D Martin Scorsese movie. But there won't be any baseball bat beatings or vice head squishing in this film. Based on the book by Brian Selznick, Hugo Cabret is about a young boy (Asa Butterfield) who secretly lives in a Paris…
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The Guardian visited Martin Scorsese on the set of Hugo Cabret at UK's Shepperton studios. The part of the interview I found most interesting is the filmmaker's thoughts on shooting his first movie using 3D cameras. "Every shot is rethinking cinema," he enthuses, "rethinking narrative – how to tell a story with a picture. Now,…
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Leonardo DiCaprio isn't married, but he's about to be unfaithful to his frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese. The pair met up via satellite in Hollywood this weekend to discuss several of their collaborations and each got to talking about their upcoming projects. Scorsese offered up some thoughts on Hugo Cabret ("It's going," he said) and DiCaprio…
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The cast of Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret keeps getting better and better. I had a little moment of excitement a week or so ago when it looked like Mathieu Amalric was in the cast, only to find that was an early casting deal that fell apart. But now there's news that might be just as…
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Briefly: I was surprised to see Jude Law's name pop up in the late-breaking cast list for Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret, which has just begun filming in 3D. Possible spoiler: Now we know that Law plays the father of Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), which, given that the story is about Hugo being an orphan stranded…
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We've known for a while that Martin Scorsese was about to commence principal photography on his adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which will be shot as his first 3D film. The primary cast has also been known for a while: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz. Usually I wouldn't post…
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