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EXCLUSIVE: The Doug Liman-directed heist movie/romantic comedy Lockdown has been acquired in a major worldwide rights deal by Warner Bros Pictures. The intention is to have the picture premiere early 2021 as a Max Original. It’s more evidence of the streamer building up its arsenal of original programming as it adds…

Megan Fox and Mindy Kaling are among the alleged victims in a scheme that also cost Manhattan public relations firm MWW Group some $2.5 million, according to court papers. Andrew Garson, who was named to the 2018 "Top 40 under 40" list by PR Week Magazine, is the defendant in a $10 million lawsuit filed in Manhattan…

HBO Max has announced the lead cast for its upcoming comedy The Sex Lives of College Girls. Set to star in the new series co-written by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble are Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Renée Rapp and Alyah Chanelle Scott. The actresses will star as four roommates and students at the prestigious New…

Stars from the South Asian community are coming together for a virtual block party in support of the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket for the 2020 election. “Joining forces with our community of brown folks/South Asians for a fundraiser for Biden-Harris is not just a natural evolution of my involvement, but something…

EXCLUSIVE: Mindy Kaling, Sir Ben Kingsley and Lucy Boynton have been added to an already-strong cast of Lockdown, the Doug Liman-directed heist thriller/romantic comedy scripted by Steven Knight. They join Anne Hathaway, Chewitel Eijofor, Ben Stiller, Stephen Merchant, Dulee Hill, Jazmyn Simons and Mark Gatiss. P.J…

Netflix’s Never Have I Ever may have not seen any love from the TV Academy as Emmy nominations rolled out on Tuesday, but co-creator/executive producer Mindy Kaling says she’s proud of its performance, with or without the recognition. “We love our #neverahaveiever cast, are so proud of the reviews and the 40+ million…

Coming off a coronavirus pandemic dominated second quarter, Netflix today revealed not just strong subscriber and revenue growth, but also a lot of eyeballs for some key series and films. “In Q2, we notched successes in many of our key content verticals,” the the now Ted Sarandos co-CEO'd streamer circumspectly noted…

Before taking the lead in Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher's Netflix comedy, Never Have I Ever, the now 18-year-old Maitreyi Ramakrishnan had done absolutely no television work at all, or even much acting of any kind. And yet she's taken viewers by storm with her portrayal of Devi, a confident-but-dorky…

"Both Mindy and I have lost a parent, so we have experienced that sort of pain," says Never Have I Ever co-creator Lang Fisher on some of the emotional foundation for the acclaimed Netflix coming of age series from Mindy Kaling and the former Brooklyn Nine-Nine Co-EP. "But I think for us, what we wanted was a show…

Following in the digital footsteps of Quibi and Peacock, HBO Max joined the streaming wars in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic this week. The AT&T-owned entity lands in the TV landscape minus it its hugely hyped Friends reunion special and many other originals shut down because of the global health crisis. In…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned tonight that Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor have officially signed on to write MGM’s Legally Blonde 3. This is the second feature film that Kaling and Goor are partnering on, the first being the Kaling/Priyanka Chopra wedding comedy that Universal won in a heated auction last year, which Deadline…

Refresh for updates… The movie world is mourning legendary Indian actor Irrfan Khan today. The Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi and Bollywood star died this morning of a colon infection at a Mumbai Hospital. He was 51. Tributes came pouring in from around the world from fans, fellow actors, filmmakers, the Movie Academ…