Argo and World War Z producer Tim Headington and former music industry exec Theresa Steele Page have launched Ley Line Entertainment, a development, production and financing company that already has a slate of projects across film, TV, theater and music. In the pipeline at launch is a musical based on Brian Selznick’s…

Revolution Studios has completed a five-picture acquisition from Dallas-based Tango Films, nabbing worldwide rights to GK Films-produced Hugo, The Tourist, Edge of Darkness, The Rum Diary and The Young Victoria. The deal follows Revolution's acquisition late last year of the eight-title Cold Spring Pictures catalog…

In the end it was mostly predictable. The only stunning surprise of the 84th Annual Academy Awards was that somehow The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo came out of nowhere to win the Best Film Editing award, something no pundit I know of saw coming. But it served to stop the early momentum of Hugo, which at one point was…

OSCARS: Wins By Studio OSCARS: Winners List WINS BY FILM Hugo — 5 The Artist — 5 The Iron Lady — 2 Beginners — 1 The Descendants — 1 The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore –1 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo — 1 The Help — 1 Midnight In Paris — 1 The Muppets — 1 Saving Face — 1 The Shore — 1 A Separation…

Diane Haithman is a contributor to AwardsLine 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 film in 3D. And it was, though he wasn't alone in charting new ground. "It was…

When it comes to meting out naked statuettes for Costume Design, the Academy loves its period looks. Consider the most recent winners: Alice In Wonderland, The Young Victoria, The Duchess, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Marie Antoinette. This year, again, there's no shortage of organza, tweed and cloches from films…

DreamWorks’ War Horse, Paramount’s Hugo, The Adventures Of Tintin and Super 8, and Disney’s The Muppets were among the winnners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Awards, which honor the year’s best work in the areas of sound editing for dialogue & ADR, effects & foley and music for film and TV. The…

The 48th CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing were presented tonight by the Cinema Audio Society at a banquet in the Crystal Ballroom at the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel. They are presented annually to the winning Re-Recording and Production Mixers in each of four categories: Television Non-Fiction…

Paramount’s Rango dominated this evening’s 10th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards with four wins in animated feature categories — Visual Effects, Animated Character, Created Environment and Virtual Cinematography. Hugo, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and Transformers: Dark Of The Moon took a pair of awards each in…

Hollywood has caught Q&A fever: I have now learned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has plans to keep the Q&A spirit alive year-round and not just “in season”. Academy regulations loosening rules that previously forbid members from attending filmmaker Q&As were severely relaxed this year…

Hugo, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo took the Art Directors Guild Awards for period, fantasy and contemporary movies tonight in ceremonies hosted by Paula Poundstone at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Production Designer Tony Walton received the Guild’s Lifetime Achievement…

Paramount has shared with Deadline this new Hugo video featuring commentary from the creative team and cast members with clips from the movie.