Anil Kapoor Talks ‘The Night Manager’ Hindi Adaptation, Upcoming Film Work & Choosing International Projects

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Prior to becoming an actor, Giancarlo Giannini, who on March 6 will be getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, studied electronic engineering, a skill he’s been known to put to good use even on movie sets. “I was meant to start working on the first artificial satellites, or on the first computers at IBM,” the Italian film and theater thesp recalls. But then Giannini enrolled in acting school and soon was given major roles, first by Franco Zeffirelli and then by Lina Wertmüller, with whom he went on to make nine movies that brought them both international fame. “I owe it to Lina that I will be getting the star. The only other Italian actor who has one is Rudolph Valentino,” he notes.

EXCLUSIVE: For Banijay Asia’s Deepak Dhar, 2023 is shaping up to be one of the busiest in a three-decade career in Indian media. Not only has he just launched The Night Manager India on Disney+ Hotstar and is delivering several scripted and unscripted shows, he is also working to position India has Banijay’s Asian production hub.

The Night Manager is getting a much-requested second season – six years on from its globe-conquering debut.The hugely successful adaption of the John le Carré novel is set for a surprise return. The follow-up to the 2016 smash-hit BBC drama will also see Tom Hiddleston return as Jonathan Pine.As per Deadline, the BBC and Amazon Prime Video have brought the show back from hiatus.

that spot-on! Listen to Fallon in the clip at the top and decide for yourself.DeBose had the internet in a craze days after her performance of the girl-power rap at the BAFTAs on Feb. 19 that was a combination of a tweaked “Sister Are Doing It for Themselves” and “We Are Family.”A sampling: ” Dame Emma, I’m so fond.

It’s been six years since the top-rated 2016 U.K. drama “The Night Manager”, starring Tom Hiddleston, had its season one finale.

It seems like a million years ago, because so much has happened in the realm of prestige TV since, but the BBC/AMC thriller series, “The Night Manager,” was only released back in 2016. However, it’s been long enough that folks just assumed that one season of the John le Carré adaptation was all we’d ever get.

A second season of The Night Manager is in the works with Amazon Prime Video and the BBC! In even better news, it looks like Tom Hiddleston would be returning for the second season to reprise his role as Jonathan Pine.

EXCLUSIVE: A second season of smash John le Carré adaptation The Night Manager is in the works at Amazon Prime Video and the BBC with Tom Hiddleston set to reprise his role as protagonist Jonathan Pine.

There was a serious dose of nostalgia for This Morning viewers on Friday’s edition of the popular ITV show, as hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary were joined by X-Factor icons Chico Slimani, Wagner and Stevie Richie. The trio, who were all household names while appearing on the show throughout the noughties, appeared to be a far cry from their former selves - with two of the three stars virtually unrecognisable! Among the stars were Steve Richie, who revealed he had undergone an impressive weight loss transformation, meanwhile Wagner was sporting a thick full head of hair after having undergone a hair transplant procedure.

Helen Mirren is taking risks in her acting career.  The 77-year-old actress candidly spoke out about performing her own stunts while filming "Shazam! Fury of the Gods.""I did some of my own stunts, but I broke my finger," Mirren revealed during an appearance on "The Graham Norton Show." "I was incredibly brave and didn't say anything or complain because I wanted to be a real 'stunty' person." Despite not being a huge fan of superheroes, Mirren challenged herself by not using a stunt double for the action film.  She continued to discuss why she wanted to be cast in the "sweet and funny" superhero sequel. "Loved the first Shazam… I am not a big superhero type person, but I loved the idea of it and happily signed up for the second one… It is great," she admitted on the show.

The brand new trailer for the upcoming series “Rabbit Hole” zips right into the drama.

K.J. Yossman Agatha Christie’s “Murder is Easy” is set to be adapted into a two-part film by BBC One, iPlayer and BritBox International. Set in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe in 1954, “Murder is Easy” tells the story of Luke Fitzwilliam who finds himself on the trail of a serial killer after meeting Miss Pinkerton on a train to London. She tells him about a series of deaths that have taken place in her village – locals think they are all accidental but Miss Pinkerton knows the truth. When she later turns up dead herself – while on the way to visit Scotland Yard – Fitzwilliam realizes he needs to find the killer before yet more bodies start piling up.

Kiefer Sutherland is the target in Paramount+'s new espionage drama, .The actor stars in the eight-episode series, which launches Sunday, March 26 with the first two episodes, as John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage. When he is framed for murder by powerful forces who have the ability to influence and control populations, John becomes the hunted.ET exclusively debuts the official trailer and key art for the drama, which features an ensemble that includes Charles Dance as Dr.

Naman Ramachandran Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor has made a triumphant return to acting with Zee Studios’ noir thriller “Brown,” the only Indian show at the Berlin Series Market Selects platform. Kapoor, one of the top movie stars in India in the 1990s and early 2000s, took a hiatus to devote time to her young family. She made a comeback with parenting-themed series “Mentalhood” for streamer ALTBalaji in 2020. “Brown” is her first acting gig since then. The series is based on the 2016 novel “City of Death” by Abheek Barua, adapted by Digvijay Singh, Sunayana Kumari and Mayukh Ghosh and directed by Abhinay Deo (“24: India”). It follows Rita Brown (Kapoor), a world-weary, recovering alcoholic, ace detective in the Kolkata police force belonging to the city’s small but influential Anglo-Indian community, who is assigned to the murder case of a young woman from a well-connected family.

T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach's knows no bounds. Or borders. has obtained photos of the couple heading south of the border for a little R&R in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Sundance standout film “Animalia,” by French-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui, has been acquired for distribution across the Middle East and North Africa by Egypt’s Film Clinic, the shingle headed by producer Mohammed Hefzy. Film Clinic, a top film and TV production company that branched out into theatrical distribution in 2016, picked up “Animalia” from Paris-based sales company Totem Films. Alaoui’s genre-bending pic is the tale of a pregnant young woman in Morocco whose life is upended by an alien invasion. In her review, Variety review critic Jessica Kiang praised “Animalia” as “a compellingly different cultural and social perspective on a classic sci-fi premise.” “Alaoui, working from her own taut, confidently ambiguous script, also gets to comment on the position of women in Muslim societies and the limits of wealth and organized faith, as well as elegantly outlining the eerie experience that is suddenly finding yourself startlingly alone during a time of shared global panic,” Kiang noted.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent In “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise,” which is premiering on Feb. 17 at the Berlin Film Festival, the folk icon with a supple soprano voice and a long history of activism, takes a disarmingly candid look on her life as she faces the end of her 60-year musical career. The immersive doc is co-directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle. They interweave Baez’s 2018 Fare Thee Well final concert tour with her early years, her rise to fame, struggles with drugs that ensued, and a darker psychological thread involving a form of child abuse on the part of Baez’s father. A surprising level of intimacy is reached thanks to a wealth of material obtained from Baez’s meticulously preserved personal archives comprising home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings of voice letters to her family. Some, while Baez was on tour in England in 1965 with Bob Dylan whom, she confesses in the doc, “broke my heart.”

Niall Horan just released his new song “Heaven” and it seems like he’s singing about his girlfriend Amelia Woolley!

Kendall Jenner is responding to everyone accusing her of photoshopping her hand.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Leonis Productions, the Newen Studios-owned French banner created by Jean-Benoit Gillig, is developing a raft of international shows on the heels of “Liaison,” Apple TV+’s first French original. The company reached a milestone with “Liaison,” a thriller series created and entirely penned by Virginie Brac (“Spiral”) and directed by Stephen Hopkins. Vincent Cassel and Eva Green lead a cast that includes Peter Mullan, Gérard Lanvin, Daniel Francis, Stanislas Merhar, Irène Jacob, Laëtitia Eïdo, Eriq Ebouaney, Tchéky Karyo, Bukky Bakray and Thierry Fremont. “It’s a sprawling French-British thriller set against the backdrop of Brexit, and there’s a metaphor between the love tragedy playing as the primary plot and the political tragedy embodied by Brexit unfolding in the background,” said Gillig.