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Exclusive: Company to launch Radu Mihaileanu’s The History of Love and Studio Ghibli co-production The Red Turtle.

Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch will kick off sales on Radu Mihaileanu’s saga The History of Love, starring John Hurt, Gemma Arterton and Sophie Nélisse at the Cannes Marché next month.

The mainly New York-set saga, spanning three continents and a period running from just before the Second World War to the present day, is based on Us writer Nicole Krauss’s international bestseller.

Hurt will play Leo, an elderly Polish Jewish immigrant still mourning the loss of his childhood sweetheart in the chaos of war, who is strangely linked to a teenage girl through a long, lost book on love… subtitled ‘the most loved woman in the world’.

“It’s a love story spanning 65 years… revolving around three friends in Poland whose destinies change forever when war breaks out,” Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval told ScreenDaily.

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Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham and Madhuri Dixit among other actors left for Duran on Thursday evening to attend the South Africa India Film and Television Awards (Saifta). Priyanka looked great in a black tank top and a pair of skinny jeans. Her high stilettos enhanced her glamour quotient. She was accessorized with a huge black bag and a sparkling solitaire ring. She was holding a Nicole Krauss novel. Priyanka will be performing in the Saifta function. Her movie ‘Zanjeer’, a remake of 1973 movie, with the same title is releasing today. Priyanka had recently tweeted that the bad weather was keeping her unwell. She tweeted, “Under the...

The two writers discuss the art of fiction, Jewishness and their new collaboration

Jonathan Safran Foer and I are sitting at the table in the back of his kitchen, on a bright, sunny, global-warmed winter day (that is, it's a happy sort of sunny, but I'm pretty sure we should be sad about it). This visit is like any other visit to his kitchen – which is one mile straight down the road from mine, in Brooklyn. The only thing that's oddly, noticeably out of place, is that I'm wearing a blue blazer and I've shaved (and Jonathan's really shaved; the last time I saw him he had a huge black beard – I mean a real lumberjack, or hipster, or rabbinical beard, depending on your point-of-view). The blazer and the preening are a nod to the fact that there's a photographer with us, who, for the purpose of this introduction, as is traditional,...

The New Yorker put cultural figures from across the spectrum in the hot seat this past weekend for their whirlwind festival, playing to intimate crowds from Friday through Sunday. Guests ranged from Steve Martin and Jonathan Franzen to St. Vincent and the "Arrested Development" cast reunion. The Huffington Post attended a smattering of events and compiled the tidbits that inspired us, and more frequently, made us laugh. Read on for the best moments from the festival.

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The 'Arrested Development' Reunion

It's not surprising that "Arrested Development" was originally meant to be a heavily improvised show. The cast's sharp tongues began flying early into the talk, moderated by Nancy Franklin, TV critic for The New Yorker. The entire cast was present Sunday -- Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, creator Mitchell Hurwitz,...

Getty Orange Prize winner Tea Obreht with her novel, “The Tiger’s Wife”

Tea Obreht was named the winner of Britain’s Orange Prize this week for her debut novel, “The Tiger’s Wife,” beating Emma Donoghue, Nicole Krauss, and three other women also on the shortlist. Obreht’s novel, set in the embattled Balkans, combines fantasy with realism . At 25 years old, Obreht is the youngest winner of the Orange Prize, which celebrates and promotes fiction written by women.

In announcing the winner,...

Everett Collection Co-founder of the Russian Samovar and ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.

As rain whipped sideways, Roman Kaplan stood just outside the doorway of the Russian Samovar smoking a cigarette and greeting guests with the easy smile of an old friend.

A dapper man in a tan jacket, Kaplan founded the bar and restaurant on West 52nd Street 25 years ago, along with the poet Joseph Brodsky and ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Every few months book publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

Nicole Krauss’ novels aren’t for reading; they’re for appreciating thoughtfully, the way one might approach a museum piece. Her The History Of Love was terrific, justly one of the most acclaimed novels of 2005, but it also gave off a sense of narrative slowed to a crawl by slow-dripping sap that stymied forward momentum. In her follow-up, Great House, that sap has hardened to amber. There are ample rewards in Great House for readers who don’t mind digging through Krauss’ “every sentence is its own reward” style. The easiest way to decide whether the book is for ...

The New Yorker, Vanity Fair’s chief athletics rival, has published its much-anticipated list of the 20 best fiction writers under 40. The names of the canon inductees will be published in next week’s fiction double issue. The list has also been published in a New York Times piece, which is available right this moment. The chosen ones: “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32; Chris Adrian, 39; Daniel Alarcon, 33; David Bezmozgis, 37; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 38; Joshua Ferris, 35; Jonathan Safran Foer, 33; Nell Freudenberger, 35; Rivka Galchen, 34; Nicole Krauss, 35; Yiyun Li, 37; Dinaw Mengestu, 31; Philipp Meyer, 36; C. E. Morgan, 33; Tea Obreht, 24; Z Z Packer, 37; Karen Russell, 28; Salvatore Scibona, 35; Gary Shteyngart, 37; and Wells Tower, 37.” This is the most exciting thing to happen in the young-ish literary community since The Paris Review started a blog!

Sundance Channel on Thursday announced plans to produce a new shortform series titled "Grey Goose Presents the Next Garde," which will be comprised of 12 first-person profiles of emerging talent including writers, musicians and designers.

The personalities featured will be novelist Nicole Krauss, artist Vik Muniz, architectural design team AvroKO, museum director Thelma Golden, musician Duncan Sheik, storyteller-poet Rives, graphic designer Jakob Trollback, clothing designer Doo Ri Chung, Metropolitan Opera manager Peter Gelb, production designer Lauri Faggioni, philanthropist Jacqueline Novogratz and entrepreneur Jared Kushner.

The one-minute vignettes will run as interstitial pieces on Sundance Channel beginning Saturday and will be available on sundancechannel.com throughout the month.