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EXCLUSIVE: Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of) has landed a series regular role opposite Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in Mindy Kaling’s forthcoming Netflix comedy series. Co-created, co-written and executive produced by Kaling and The Mindy Project co-exec producer Lang Fisher, who also serve as showrunners, the Kaling/Fisher…

Mindy Kaling’s comedy-of-age Netflix comedy series has found its lead. Newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has been cast in the lead role of Devi following a worldwide open casting call for the untitled series from Kaling, The Mindy Project co-exec producer Lang Fisher and Universal TV. Ramakrishnan of Toronto was selected…

Mindy Kaling wrote Hulu's miniseries adaptation of Four Weddings and A Funeral, premiering on the streaming service this summer. Kaling was in a Conversation With Nancy Meyers at the Produced By Conference, and Meyers asked Kaling about her adaptation. Kaling may be the biggest fan of the movie directed by Mike…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney franchises like Avengers: Endgame and Aladdin have feasibly conquered the summer box office, leaving a string of recent female comedies — Long Shot, The Hustle and Booksmart — as collateral damage. However, Amazon Studios is hoping that its $13 million Sundance acquisition Late Night becomes an…

EXCLUSIVE: Mindy Kaling’s comedy Late Night, which she stars in, wrote and produced, will now go wide in theaters June 14 instead of June 7. Those in New York and Los Angeles will still be able to see the Amazon Studios film in its exclusive run June 7. The film played like gangbusters at Sundance, where Amazon…

Mindy Kaling was just 24 when she became both the first woman and the first person of color to join the writing staff of The Office. 14 years later, this January, her production company Kaling International sold the film she wrote, Late Night, in a record deal with Amazon at Sundance. She also just had her newest film…

EXCLUSIVE: A spirited auction has ended with Universal winning the rights to an untitled comedy pitched around town by Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra and Dan Goor. Kaling will write with Goor and she will potentially direct. Its a two-hander star vehicle for Kaling and Priyanka Chopra that takes place in America and…

Netflix has given a 10-episode series order to a semi-autobiographical comedy-of-age comedy from The Mindy Project creator/exec producer Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project co-exec producer Lang Fisher and Universal TV where Kaling had been based for a decade and a half before recently signing a big pact with Warner Bros…

Mere seconds pass before several people are fired in this first trailer for Amazon Studios’ Late Night, with Emma Thompson as a monstrous boss and talk-show host doing the head-chopping. The assistant-firing Murphy Brown at her most ruthless was compassion incarnated compared to Thompson’s Katherine Newbury. Late Night…

Amazon Studios said Thursday it will bow Late Night in theaters nationwide on June 7, with the news coming after the streaming service made a splashy deal at the Sundance Film Festival for the comedy directed by Nisha Ganatra and written and produced by and starring Mindy Kaling. Emma Thompson plays Katherine Newbury…

Mindy Kaling has signed an exclusive, long-term overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group, leaving Universal TV where she had been for a decade and a half. The studio landed The Mindy Project creator in a very competitive situation. She is among a slew of A-list writer-producers who have been seeking overall deal…

With more than 500 scripted series across and a multi-platform TV universe constantly expanding with new streaming players, it was inevitable for competition over television’s top creative talent to get fierce. But the current frenzy in the marketplace with a slew of A-list writer-producers sparking bidding wars among…