Amy Ryan Joins the Cast of LATE NIGHT

30WEST and FilmNation Entertainment announced today that Academy Award Nominee Amy Ryan (Birdman, Gone Baby Gone) has joined the cast of Mindy Kaling's Late Night, directed by Nisha Ganatra. The film also stars Kaling, Emma Thompson, John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, Paul Walter Hauser, Denis O’Hare, John Early, Max Casella and Megalyn Echikunwoke. 30WEST and FilmNation Entertainment are financing the upcoming comedy. Kaling wrote the script and is also producing with Howard Klein, alongside Imperative Entertainment and FilmNation Entertainment, who are also handling international sales. 30WEST and CAA are handling US rights.

Late Night centers on a late-night talk show host (Thompson) who is at risk of losing her long-running show right when she hires her first female writer (Kaling) who revitalizes her show and her life. Principal photography is underway in New York.

Ryan will next be seen this fall in Amazon Studios’ Beautiful Boy in which she stars alongside Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet, as well as Strange But True in which she stars with Greg Kinnear for CBS Films. She recently starred in Central Intelligence with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart and Brad Furman’s The Infiltrator. Ryan was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG Award for her performance in Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone.

Recent FilmNation productions include: “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself starring Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde; Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale; The Lodge starring Riley Keough; Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield; The Children Act starring Emma Thompson; and Sebastian Lelio’s Disobedience starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. The FilmNation sales titles include Amazon Studios The Aeronauts, from director Tom Harper, starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones and Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria.

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Final Destination Bloodlines Set to Bring Fresh Horrors to the Franchise

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POPULATION PURGE Trailer and Release Info

In a dystopian world where a radical government has unleashed a deadly poison to control population, only those with blood type AB positive remain unscathed. But instead of outright death, the rest of the population is left to suffer in a state of chronic illness, causing widespread chaos and panic. As the majority slowly succumbs to the effects of the poison, their only hope lies in receiving transfusions of AB positive blood from the few immune survivors, like Charlie and his granddaughter Maya. Living in the decrepit remains of an abandoned amusement park, Charlie is a renegade supplier of blood to the underground market. But their sanctuary is threatened by the iron-fisted rule of District 22's ruthless warden, Onslow, who will stop at nothing to save his own dying son. As Charlie and Maya fight to defend their haven and their own sanity, the eccentric duo must navigate through a world of danger and betrayal. POPULATION PURGE was written by Brian Johnson and Toby Osborne and di...

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