MUMBAI: Distribution rights of Martin Scorsese‘s 3D adventure, Hugo Cabret has changed hands.It has passed on from Sony to Paramount and its release date has been preponed by two weeks to 23 November. Sony had originally scheduled the film for a 9 December release.

The director seems genuinely fired up about the possibilities of the 3D format. "Every shot is rethinking cinema," he enthuses, "rethinking narrative - how to tell a story with a picture. Now, I‘m not saying we have to keep throwing javelins at the camera, I‘m not saying we use it as a gimmick, but it‘s liberating. It‘s literally a Rubik‘s Cube every time you go out to design a shot, and work out a camera move, or a crane move. But it has a beauty to it also. People look like… like moving statues. They move like sculpture, as if sculpture is moving in a way. Like dancers," Scorsese gas been quoted as saying.

When Sony couldn‘t provide the requested Thanksgiving date release, it agreed to let GK Films move the film into the hands of Paramount. The studio, that didn‘t have a big Thanksgiving release, jumped at the chance to be part of Scorsese‘s first 3D film.