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Shantaram (TV Series)
''Shantaram'' is an American-Australian Drama (genre), drama Thriller (genre), thriller television series created by Eric Warren Singer and Steve Lightfoot, based on the Shantaram (novel), novel of the same name by Gregory David Roberts. The story drew inspiration from Roberts' own life, which is about a bank robber from Australia who flees the country to India. The series consists of twelve episodes directed by Bharat Nalluri, Iain B. MacDonald and Bronwen Hughes. Steve Lightfoot joined as showrunner after Eric Warren Singer departed the project. It is produced by Fair Honest Positive Creative, The 4 Keys, Bohemian Risk Productions, Square Head Productions, Anonymous Content and Paramount Television Studios and was distributed by Apple Inc. for their streaming service, Apple TV+. The series premiered on 14 October 2022 and concluded on 16 December 2022. In December 2022, the series was cancelled after one season. Cast Main * Charlie Hunnam as Dale Conti/Lindsay "Linbaba" Ford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (genre)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shubham Saraf
Shubham Saraf (born March 1992) is a British actor. He earned an ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Award nomination. On television, he is known for his roles in the Netflix crime anthology '' Criminal: UK'' (2019–), the BBC One drama ''A Suitable Boy'' (2020), and the Apple TV+ series '' Shantaram'' (2022). His films include ''Honour'' (2014). Early life Saraf was born in Calcutta. He spent his early childhood in Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago, before moving to London when he was 7 or 8. He attended St Paul's School, London, where he acted in student productions. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Warwick in 2013. He then spent a year with the École Philippe Gaulier in Paris before going on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2017. Career Saraf appeared in the 2014 films ''Honour'' and '' The Cut''. He made his professional stage debut in 2017 as revolutionary Dinesh Gupta in ''Lions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple Inc
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. the following year. It was renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 as the company had expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue, with billion in the 2024 fiscal year. The company was founded to produce and market Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Its second computer, the Apple II, became a best seller as one of the first mass-produced microcomputers. Apple introduced the Lisa in 1983 and the Macintosh in 1984, as some of the first computers to use a graphical user interface and a mouse. By 1985, internal company problems led to Jobs leavin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of America West
The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. It was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, including the Screen Writers Guild. It has around 20,000 members. The WGAW and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), though independent entities, jointly brand themselves together as the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and cooperate on activities such as launching coordinated strike actions and administering the Writers Guild of America Awards. The WGAE is an affiliate of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds. Governance The WGAW is governed by its membership. Elections for a board of directors are held annually by secret mail-in ballot. Half of the board is elected each year to a two-year term of office, and a board member may not serve more than four consecutive terms. In 2022 the officers are: * President: Meredith Stiehm * Vice President: Michele Mulroney * Secretary-Treasure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple TV+
Apple TV+ is an American subscription over-the-top streaming service owned by Apple. The service launched on November 1, 2019, and it offers a selection of original production film and television series called Apple Originals. The service was announced during the Apple Special Event of March 2019, where entertainers from Apple TV+ projects appeared onstage, including Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg. The service can be accessed through Apple's website and through the Apple TV app, which has gradually become available on many Apple devices and some major competing digital media players, including some smart TV models and video-game consoles. Apple TV+ has over 45 million paid memberships. Apple plans to expand the services' availability, and there are workarounds for subscribers whose device is not presently supported. Access is included as part of the Apple One subscription. Most of the content is available in Dolby Vision profile 5 and Dolby At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Television Studios
Paramount Television Studios, formerly the second incarnation of Paramount Television, was the television arm of American film studio Paramount Pictures, a division of Paramount Global, founded on March 4, 2013, by its predecessor, Viacom, following an emerging vigorous business with the technological expansion of television via streaming services. Paramount also recognized that television could give them little to fall back on when films fail, except for studio stage rentals. It was the revival and successor to Paramount's original television division, which rebranded as CBS Paramount Television and was kept by CBS Corporation, the new name for the original Viacom, on December 31, 2005 – on that same day, the second Viacom took ownership of Paramount Pictures. After the expiration of a 3-year licensing agreement between the split companies for the "Paramount" trademarks, CBS Paramount Television was rebranded to CBS Television Studios on May 17, 2009 and then currently CB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anonymous Content
Anonymous Content (AC) is an independent global entertainment company founded in 1999 by CEO Steve Golin, Dave Morrison and Gore Verbinski. It is based in Los Angeles with offices in Culver City, New York City and London. History Anonymous Content was founded in 1999 by CEO Steve Golin, who had left Propaganda Films, Dave Morrison and Gore Verbinski. The company initially had a deal with USA Films to produce its pictures. The company begin taking on the Anonymous Content name in 2000. In 2002, AC made its first foray into television with '' Crime & Punishment'', a reality show that ran for three seasons on NBC. In May 2011, it was announced that AC's talent management division had added managers Tony Lipp, Sandra Chang and Doug Wald, who brought several major talents with them. In May 2014, it signed a three-year first look production deal with Paramount Television, where Paramount would produce and distribute scripted programming developed by AC. In February 2016, Kevin C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohemian Risk Productions
This is a list of television production companies, sorted by country. Australia Egypt * Studio Misr * Lotus Film Production * Ramses Naguib * Salah Zulfikar Films * Mary Queeny Films * Egyptian Media Production City * Dollar Film * New Century Production France India * Balaji Telefilms * StarPlus * Sun Pictures *Magic Moments Motion Pictures * Essel Group Netherlands * Endemol Shine Group New Zealand Thailand *Tero Entertainment *GMMTV *GMM Bravo *Kantana Group * TV Thunder *Workpoint Entertainment United Kingdom * Warner Bros. Television Productions UK * AJK TV * Aardman Animations * BBC Studios * BBC Television * Fremantle * HIT Entertainment * ITV Studios * Ragdoll Productions * Talkback (established 1981)Thorpe, Vanessa (20 July 2013)"Mel Smith Remembered: 'A Gentleman and a Scholar, a Gambler and a Wit' Griff Rhys Jones Talks About His Shock at the News of His Former Comedy Partner's Death from a Heart Attack at Home" ''The Guardian''. Retriev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Dayre
Marion Dayre (born Heather Williams), also known as Heather Marion, is an American television writer and producer. She is best known for her contributions to AMC's ''Better Call Saul'' (2015–2022) and as the creator and showrunner of the 2024 Disney+/Marvel miniseries ''Echo''. For her work on ''Better Call Saul'', she has been nominated for six Writers Guild of America Awards and awarded a Peabody Award. Early life Dayre grew up in rural Superior, Nebraska. In an interview with Optimum Magazine, Istanbul Technical University's student magazine, Dayre shared, "I grew up in a funeral home in a 2,000-person town. My Dad, Uncle, and Grandpa are all funeral directors. In a small family business that means they do every job: from mowing to painting to sprinklers to driving the monument truck in the cemetery to handling floral arrangements to staffing funerals to the realer, more emotional stuff – moving with thousands of families through transformative experiences like grief an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Manson (producer)
David Manson (born 1952) is an American film and television producer, screenwriter and director. He is perhaps best known for his work on a trio of acclaimed Netflix series: '' House of Cards'', ''Bloodline'', and '' Ozark'', for which he has received multiple Emmy Award and Writers Guild Award nominations. Early life Manson was born in New York City to two musicians who had met as students at the Juilliard School. His father, Eddy Manson (''né'' Eddy Lawrence Manson; 1919–1996), a harmonica virtuoso, moved the family to Los Angeles in 1965 to pursue his career as a film composer. Manson attended the University of California at Santa Cruz on full scholarship before transferring to the University of California at Irvine, where he graduated magna cum laude. Career Manson began his career in the theater and worked in various capacities for such venues as the Mark Taper Forum, Playwrights Horizon and the Manhattan Theater Club. He started in the film business at Dick B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Kurzel
Justin Dallas Kurzel (; born 1974) is an Australian film director. His films include '' Snowtown'' (2011), ''Macbeth'' (2015), ''Assassin's Creed'' (2016), ''True History of the Kelly Gang'' (2018), '' Nitram'' (2021) and '' The Order'' (2024). Early life & Education Justin Dallas Kurzel was born around 1974 in Gawler, South Australia to a Polish father and a Maltese mother. His younger brother, Jed Kurzel, is a blues rock musician who has scored all of Justin's feature films. He first trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Design) in 1995, and then later studied at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television. Career In 1999 Kurzel was awarded a Mike Walsh Fellowship. His Victorian College of the Arts graduating short film ''Blue Tongue'' (2004) screened in over 13 international films festivals and won Best Short at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Kurzel's feature film debut was '' Snowt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
