Mindy Kaling Producing Untitled Animated Pic For Paramount Animation
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Animation is developing an original Untitled Animated Comedy with Mindy Kaling on board to produce. Aathil Chaturvedi & Justin Soul penned the script. Kaling will produce along with Jay Brown and Ty Ty Smith.
Shawn Wong, Director, Animation Development, is overseeing the project for Paramount Animation. The animated movie takes us to a world with a wish fulfillment message that is comedic and heartfelt.
Chaturvedi & Soul are repped by UTA and Granderson Des Rochers.
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Since breaking out at age 24 as one of the eight-person writing staff for the hit NBC sitcom The Office, Kaling has become one of the top writer-producers in the industry.
Since the end of The Office, Kaling’s TV business has been booming which started with her creating, starring in and executive producing The Mindy Project. Kaling wrote 24 episodes of the 117 episodes created for the six-season series. In 2020, Kaling released the critically acclaimed series, Never Have I Ever for Netflix. Season 1 reached 40 million homes in its first four weeks of release. The fourth and final season premiered last year.
Kaling is also the co-creator and Executive Producer of The Sex Lives of College Girls, which in 2021 had the biggest premiere of any comedy on HBO Max. It was renewed for a third season in December 2022, after the success of season two.
In between all her ventures, Kaling has released two New York Times bestselling comedic memoirs: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) and Why Not Me?, in addition to a collection of essays titled Nothing Like I Imagined. Most recently, Kaling launched her imprint Mindy’s Book Studio for Amazon Publishing, with the mission of publishing titles from new and emerging diverse voices.
In 2023, The White House honored Kaling with the National Medal of Arts, the highest civilian honor given to artists by the United States government. In February, Kaling received the Producers Guild of America’s prestigious Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. In 2022, Kaling International was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential Companies. In 2012, Kaling was named to the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World List.
Kaling is repped by 3 Arts Entertainment, CAA and PJ Shapiro.
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