Production Design: All aboard ‘Hugo’s’ 1930s train station set. By Emily Rome, Los ... Plenty of writers have been afforded virtually that experience as their books have been adapted to film ...

You might think the biggest challenge for Hugo production designer Dante Ferretti — a frequent Martin Scorsese collaborator and multiple Academy Award winner — would be realizing his first ...

Production Design: All aboard 'Hugo's ... Brian Selznick when he visited the set for the Nov. 23 release “Hugo,” based on his 2007 book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” The film ...

In a dazzling homage to movie history, Scorsese re-creates the magic of cinema in 1931 Paris. By Jay A. Fernandez, Carolyn Giardina Ben Kingsley (left), as magician-filmmaker Georges Melies, gets ...

MOVIE: HUGO - Paramount ... “Going on the set for the first time and meeting [production designer] Dante Ferretti, seeing the full-scale train station, it was really exciting,” Selznick says.

Instead of just doing a 3-D movie, he tries to impress us with a deluge of 3-D effects. He takes a delicate narrative and stuffs it to 126 long minutes, so that children, the intended audience ...