'Hugo' is NYFF's surprise

"Hugo"The NY Film Festival's unusual, work-in-progress screening of Martin Scorsese's approaching three dimensional outing "Hugo" can serve as the proper launch from the film's fall campaign for honours attention.Reps in the NYFF wouldn't confirm adding "Hugo" towards the sked, but a few associates verified exactly what the rumor mill had started to see because the logical choice, because of the clues came by NYFF cheap Scorsese already includes a doc, "George Harrison: Residing in the fabric World" within the fest's primary slate.Because of the festival's status like a small, exclusive showcase from the year's films -- the primary slate includes only 25-28 photos each year, with 27 movies around the menu this season -- NYFF may serve as a higher-profile tastemaker launch for any fall film, as evidenced by last year's world preem of "The Social Networking."The NYFF outing may serve as an earlier thumbs-up in the notoriously discerning festival developers, and may behave as an attention-getter for additional serious-minded auds who may be enticed to dismiss "Hugo" as kiddie fare.According to John Selznick's highlighted, youthful adult novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," "Hugo" focuses on an orphan in nineteen thirties Paris who struggles to reanimate a robot that his lately deceased father had made work. Film stars The Actor-brad Pitt, Chloe Sophistication Moretz, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley, amongst others, alongside Asa Butterfield because the central orphan.The fest introduced late a week ago it might be adding a sneak-preview screening of the work-in-progress film with a "master filmmaker." NYFF wouldn't reveal the film's title even if the screening continued purchase Friday, but coordinators did read the movie was because of be launched just before the finish of the season. "Hugo," from production company GK Films, is skedded for any November. 23 release from Vital.When NYFF first introduced the mystery addition, early speculation went toward "The Lady using the Dragon Tattoo" and "Incredibly Noisy and Very Close," a set of approaching films from producer Scott Rudin, who bowed "Social Networking" at NYFF this year. Also within the mix were other high-profile fall choices including Steven Spielberg's "War Equine" and Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar."Although unconfirmed by NYFF, it's stated the film is because of screen in three dimensional, though still within an incomplete cut. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com