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Stand-up comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani is mostly known for bringing the funny and joy, but in a recent Twitter thread the Silicon Valley actor got real, expressing his concern for the pandemic and how the United States has handled it poorly compared to other countries. Nanjiani is married to Emily V. Gordon, who…

Oscar-nominated husband-and-wife duo Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon are using their platform to offer some guidance to those who may be experiencing cabin fever in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 quarantine. On Thursday, the Little America executive producers shared their new limited series podcast, Staying In…

It’s the 100th episode of the New Hollywood Podcast and we are happy to celebrate it with Little America‘s writer-producers Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani! After The Big Sick premiered in 2017 during Sundance, Gordon and Nanjiani stars started to shine brighter. The film, which was based on their real-life…

With SXSW just weeks away, the annual confab has added more featured speakers and keynotes to the 34th edition of its conference which takes place March 13-22. Added to the lineup of keynotes are Chief Creative Officer of TBWA\Media Arts Lab Brent Anderson, and the "Are You Ready for the Future of Space Exploration?"…

Apple TV+'s new anthology series focusing on the immigrant experience, Little America, which premiered Friday, has already been renewed for a second season. On today's TCA panel on the show, executive producer Alan Yang teased that the second season will go beyond the first season in scope and perhaps go "farther back…

That potential Hayley Dunphy Modern Family spinoff will have to wait. Modern Family standout Sarah Hyland is set to star in a new multi-camera comedy, which has been nabbed by ABC with a put pilot commitment. Hyland has teamed with Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) on the semi-autobiographical project, which hails from Mo…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple is developing Little America, a half-hour anthology series from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, the Oscar-nominated writers of indie hit The Big Sick, SMILF executive producer Lee Eisenberg, Master of None co-creator/executive producer Alan Yang and Universal Television. Written by Eisenberg, who…

Emily V. Gordon, who was nominated for the Original Screenplay Oscar yesterday for co-penning The Big Sick, has been set to adapt Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's bestselling novel The Nest for Amazon's film studio. It reteams Gordon and Amazon, the latter of which co-distributed Big Sick with Lionsgate. Jill Soloway and…

“A Pakistani stand-up comedian falls in love with a young woman who promptly falls into a coma.” This kind of elevator pitch would feel contrived, if it weren’t also based on a true story. But truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. As Emily V. Gordon drafted her screenplay for The Big Sick with husband Kumail Nanjian…

The Big Sick co-writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon didn’t set out to tell the story of their real-life relationship on film. “I actually was writing it on my own,” Nanjiani said at Deadline’s The Contenders event in Los Angeles. After learning from Nanjiani how Gordon was in a coma during the beginning of…

The Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani feature love story which was snapped up by Amazon at Sundance for $12M will hit theaters on June 23 in limited release via Lionsgate with a wide expansion on July 14. The Big Sick is based on Gordon and Nanjiani’s real-life relationship and both wrote and star in the movie which…