The Seventh Function of Language Being Adapted as Feature Film (EXCLUSIVE)
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“The Seventh Function of Language,” a novel by French author Laurent Binet, is getting the feature film treatment. Uri Singer, the CEO of TaleFlick, a production company that specializes in adapting books into movies and TV shows, has obtained screen rights to the popular work of fiction.
Singer will produce “The Seventh Function of Language” with Midnight Road Entertainment’s Vincent Sieber, who previously produced “The Chronicles of Narnia.”
The New York Times described Binet’s novel as being “at once a buddy-cop plot, a fish-out-of-water comedy and a spy thriller.” A whodunit set against the backdrop of 1980s France, “The Seventh Function of Language” centers on a literary critic Roland Barthes, who gets hit by a laundry van and dies after having lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. But as the world mourn
Union Budget prepared for the rich, of the rich and by the rich: Chidambaram
New Delhi, Feb 11 (UNI) Congress Member and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said that this budget was prepared for the rich, of the rich and by the rich.
Speaking on the Union Budget in the Upper House, he said this was a budget prepared for the rich, of the rich and by the rich, he said. This budget has done nothing for the poor of India, migrant workers, those who have waiting for ration.
Putting the Government to the dock Let me first recall the last year, the former CEA Aravind Subramanium who have just demitted his office, had commented that pre-COVID the economy was in ICU. Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee said that the economy was doing badly before the pandemic. The country has witnessed a slowdown of eight quarters so far.
KP governor, CM visit olive rich land in Chakwal and Jhelum
National
February 10, 2021
PESHAWAR: KP Governor Shah Farman and Chief Minister Mahmood Khan paid a joint visit to the olive rich land of Basharat and Arra in Chakwal and Jhelum districts in Punjab to view and assess the potential of olive plantation in this area. The visit was undertaken on the special invitation of SAPM on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam, said an official handout. The purpose was to witness the largest Basharat Forest to examine the huge potential of this area for olive cultivation and to prepare an effective and comprehensive strategy for grafting of already available wild olive and new plantations on a long-term basis.