In a recent, lengthy Twitter spat, Cardi B clashed with popular social blog the Shade Room after she accused the outlet of posting only “negative” content about her. She claimed the website’s moderators ignored her private messages, leaving her no choice but to take her issues public.
On Sunday, the Shade Room posted a video to Instagram of the Invasion of Privacy rapper’s daughter Kulture celebrating her fourth birthday. Cardi B said she DMed the outlet before commenting on the post, requesting that it be removed. When she didn’t receive a response,...
On Sunday, the Shade Room posted a video to Instagram of the Invasion of Privacy rapper’s daughter Kulture celebrating her fourth birthday. Cardi B said she DMed the outlet before commenting on the post, requesting that it be removed. When she didn’t receive a response,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: The search is on for the next viral plus-size modeling sensation with The Shade Room’s Thick House.
Set to premiere May 16th at 4 p.m. on Facebook Watch, Thick House sees plus-size America’s Next Top Model cycle 3 contestant Toccara Jones host the competition program. Judges Ej King and fashion blogger and stylist Kelly Augustine will seek out the their winner from a group of seven plus-sized models to help them cultivate a new fan base. The hopeful winners will compete to impress the panel of catwalking judges and special guests, including Glee actress and Dancing with the Stars season 17 winner Amber Riley.
While Thick House seeks out plus-sized modeling talent, Lizzo’s scouting out fuller-figured women to perform alongside her on stage for an unscripted series at Amazon. Thick House is part of Facebook Watch’s We the Culture programming slate, which is aimed at amplifying the voices of Black content creators.
Set to premiere May 16th at 4 p.m. on Facebook Watch, Thick House sees plus-size America’s Next Top Model cycle 3 contestant Toccara Jones host the competition program. Judges Ej King and fashion blogger and stylist Kelly Augustine will seek out the their winner from a group of seven plus-sized models to help them cultivate a new fan base. The hopeful winners will compete to impress the panel of catwalking judges and special guests, including Glee actress and Dancing with the Stars season 17 winner Amber Riley.
While Thick House seeks out plus-sized modeling talent, Lizzo’s scouting out fuller-figured women to perform alongside her on stage for an unscripted series at Amazon. Thick House is part of Facebook Watch’s We the Culture programming slate, which is aimed at amplifying the voices of Black content creators.
- 5/3/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Issa Rae and Deniese Davis’ ColorCreative Management is expanding its team, re-upping manager Ashley Calloway and adding former Rise Management’s Jordan Moncada as a talent and literary manager to the growing entertainment firm. The re-up and staff addition were announced Monday by Talitha Watkins, President & Head of ColorCreative.
Prior to joining ColorCreative Management, Calloway was an Account Manager at Studio71 where she executed high value brand campaigns for digital and traditional talent; brands included Disney, Amazon, Fox and more. Calloway also spent 3 ½ years working at Creative Artists Agency for high level agents in TV Unscripted, TV Scripted Packaging and Talent.
As a talent and literary manager at ColorCreative, Moncada is focused on representing multi-hyphenates that tell authentic stories and are passionate about making a larger impact on the world outside of the entertainment industry. She comes to ColorCreative after five years at Rise Management, where she was promoted...
Prior to joining ColorCreative Management, Calloway was an Account Manager at Studio71 where she executed high value brand campaigns for digital and traditional talent; brands included Disney, Amazon, Fox and more. Calloway also spent 3 ½ years working at Creative Artists Agency for high level agents in TV Unscripted, TV Scripted Packaging and Talent.
As a talent and literary manager at ColorCreative, Moncada is focused on representing multi-hyphenates that tell authentic stories and are passionate about making a larger impact on the world outside of the entertainment industry. She comes to ColorCreative after five years at Rise Management, where she was promoted...
- 4/19/2021
- by Denise Petski and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Issa Rae and La La Anthony want to scare the living daylights out of you and make you laugh at the same time with Juju.
The Insecure and Power vets are executive producing the upcoming horror comedy for Universal Pictures, I’ve learned. In the early stages, there are not a lot of plot specifics. However, it will be based on an original concept by Angelica Nwandu, founder of Instagram-based info hub The Shade Room and a Sundance fellow, who will write the script.
Juju will be the studio feature directorial debut for Thembi Banks, who has been a director on Rae’s Insecure, Frankie Shaw’s Smilf and a Sundance alum herself. Earlier this year, Banks was in the midst of helming Young, Wild, Free for Macro, Sk Global and Baron Davis, but that feature project was put on pause due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Longtime Rae...
The Insecure and Power vets are executive producing the upcoming horror comedy for Universal Pictures, I’ve learned. In the early stages, there are not a lot of plot specifics. However, it will be based on an original concept by Angelica Nwandu, founder of Instagram-based info hub The Shade Room and a Sundance fellow, who will write the script.
Juju will be the studio feature directorial debut for Thembi Banks, who has been a director on Rae’s Insecure, Frankie Shaw’s Smilf and a Sundance alum herself. Earlier this year, Banks was in the midst of helming Young, Wild, Free for Macro, Sk Global and Baron Davis, but that feature project was put on pause due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Longtime Rae...
- 12/8/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Urban Movie Channel has commissioned the new docuseries “Behind Her Faith,” and Disney Channel has greenlit family dance competition series, “Disney Fam Jam.”
Greenlights
AMC Networks’ Urban Movie Channel has commissioned “Behind Her Faith,“ a new docuseries from writer/director Paula Bryant-Ellis. Executive produced by “Insecure” star Jay Ellis and “Black Love” producer Codie Elaine Oliver, the show promises to explore how the power of faith has been a driving force in the lives of successful women in various industries. The first four episodes will feature appearances from Niecy Nash (“When They See Us,” “Claws”), Aisha Hinds, Essence Atkins (“Marlon,” “Ambitions”) and The Shade Room founder, Angelica Nwandu.
Disney Channel has greenlit family dance competition series “Disney Fam Jam.” Inspired by choreographer Phil Wright’s “The Parent Jam” online videos, each episode of the competition series will feature two families hitting the floor in...
Greenlights
AMC Networks’ Urban Movie Channel has commissioned “Behind Her Faith,“ a new docuseries from writer/director Paula Bryant-Ellis. Executive produced by “Insecure” star Jay Ellis and “Black Love” producer Codie Elaine Oliver, the show promises to explore how the power of faith has been a driving force in the lives of successful women in various industries. The first four episodes will feature appearances from Niecy Nash (“When They See Us,” “Claws”), Aisha Hinds, Essence Atkins (“Marlon,” “Ambitions”) and The Shade Room founder, Angelica Nwandu.
Disney Channel has greenlit family dance competition series “Disney Fam Jam.” Inspired by choreographer Phil Wright’s “The Parent Jam” online videos, each episode of the competition series will feature two families hitting the floor in...
- 10/11/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Claws and When They See Us star Niecy Nash, Underground‘s Aisha Hinds, Essence Atkins and the Shade Room founder Angelica Nwandu will be featured in Behind Her Faith, a new docuseries for Urban Movie Channel. A spring launch is in the works.
The AMC Networks-based streaming service has ordered four episodes of the series, created by writer-director Paula Bryant-Ellis. Each episode will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the power of faith and its driving force for successful women in entertainment, sports, music, business, politics and the ministry. The featured guests from varied walks of life have one thing in common: the conscious decision to put their faith first without fear or regret.
Jay Ellis (HBO’s Insecure) is an executive producer and Black Love co-creator Codie Elaine Oliver is a consulting producer on the series, which is in production.
“As Umc’s viewership continues to grow, we...
The AMC Networks-based streaming service has ordered four episodes of the series, created by writer-director Paula Bryant-Ellis. Each episode will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the power of faith and its driving force for successful women in entertainment, sports, music, business, politics and the ministry. The featured guests from varied walks of life have one thing in common: the conscious decision to put their faith first without fear or regret.
Jay Ellis (HBO’s Insecure) is an executive producer and Black Love co-creator Codie Elaine Oliver is a consulting producer on the series, which is in production.
“As Umc’s viewership continues to grow, we...
- 10/11/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Shade Room (Tsr), a buzzy Instagram account founded in 2014 to celebrate black culture and furnish entertainment gossip, is getting into the original content business.
The company’s first original shows will roll out later this year -- developed by an all-female production team -- exclusively on Instagram. The Shade Room, which was founded by 28-year-old entrepreneur Angelica Nwandu, counts 15 million followers and receives 1.5 billion impressions per week.
The slate comprises three unscripted series featuring guest appearances by Ray J and Amber Riley. Petty Court is a court-formatted show hosted by Instagram influencer Landon Romano (pictured above), where guests will be able to air their petty grievances; Struggle Chef is a cooking competition series where fans will face off against the aforementioned celebrity guests; and F-boy Chronicles will provide an investigative look at fair-weather boyfriends
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The company’s first original shows will roll out later this year -- developed by an all-female production team -- exclusively on Instagram. The Shade Room, which was founded by 28-year-old entrepreneur Angelica Nwandu, counts 15 million followers and receives 1.5 billion impressions per week.
The slate comprises three unscripted series featuring guest appearances by Ray J and Amber Riley. Petty Court is a court-formatted show hosted by Instagram influencer Landon Romano (pictured above), where guests will be able to air their petty grievances; Struggle Chef is a cooking competition series where fans will face off against the aforementioned celebrity guests; and F-boy Chronicles will provide an investigative look at fair-weather boyfriends
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- 4/25/2019
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Midway through the first act of Jordana Spiro’s “Night Comes On,” Angel (breakout performer Dominique Fishback) steps inside the kind of fraught, uncomfortable situation — one prickling with violence of all possibilities — that similar films have long trained audiences to brace for, something to endure. And then Spiro and Fishback take it back, flipping not just the narrative of what’s on the screen, but the very way in which it is approached and processed by both Angel and those who are observing her life. While the film, Spiro’s feature directorial debut, doesn’t shy away from darker elements, Spiro’s ability to ground even the worst moments firmly from the perspective of her protagonist add a level of grace and empathy. It’s a tough story, but told through a decidedly female gaze, “Night Comes On” blossoms into something beautiful.
The movie opens just after Fishback’s Angel,...
The movie opens just after Fishback’s Angel,...
- 8/2/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
When the parole board asks seventeen-year old Angel Lamere (Dominique Fishback) why she hasn’t seen her younger sister (Tatum Marilyn Hall’s Abby) in two years despite only being incarcerated for one, her reply was an honest yet simplistic, “I wasn’t a good influence.” The fact that she is where she is proves this statement to be the truth, but we’re soon to discover there’s more to it than a flimsy sense of altruism. The decision was conversely a selfish one: necessary, but selfish. Angel was the one who had to live with the memory of what their father (John Jelks) did to their mother (Nastashia Fuller). She’s the one who cannot forget what was taken from them and seeing Abby’s intact innocence unfortunately only made that burden worse.
First-time feature director Jordana Spiro and cowriter Angelica Nwandu are quick to portray the regret this reality fostered.
First-time feature director Jordana Spiro and cowriter Angelica Nwandu are quick to portray the regret this reality fostered.
- 8/1/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Four years after bringing their script to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, filmmakers Jordana Spiro and Angelica Nwandu debuted their first film together, the moving family drama “Night Comes On,” at this year’s festival. It was a stellar homecoming for the newbie filmmaking pair — Spiro is best known for her acting, and is currently starring on “Ozark,” while Nwandu founded the celebrity gossip site The Shade Room — and they even walked away from the fest with a Next Innovator Award from the jury.
Spiro and Nwandu aren’t the only breakout talents the film has to offer either, as its stars — including “The Deuce” actress Dominique Fishback and newcomer Tatum Marilyn Hall — both turn in revelatory dramatic performances, bonded together by their warm, believable chemistry.
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“Night Comes On” follows Angel Lamere (Fishback) as she is released from juvenile detention on...
Spiro and Nwandu aren’t the only breakout talents the film has to offer either, as its stars — including “The Deuce” actress Dominique Fishback and newcomer Tatum Marilyn Hall — both turn in revelatory dramatic performances, bonded together by their warm, believable chemistry.
Read More: 20 Rising Female Filmmakers You Need to Know in 2018
“Night Comes On” follows Angel Lamere (Fishback) as she is released from juvenile detention on...
- 6/14/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Samuel Goldwyn Films has obtained the North American distribution rights to Sundance Next Innovator Prize-winning film, Night Comes On, which will hit theaters sometime in the summer of this year. Ozark actress Jordana Spiro made her directorial debut with this film as well as co-wrote the script with Angelica Nwandu, founder of the popular blog The Shade Room.
Starring Dominque Fishback (HBO’s The Deuce) and 10-year-old tyro Tatum Marilyn Hall, the story follows Angel Lamere who is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, Angel embarks on a journey with her little sister to avenge her mother’s death.
Producers are Alvaro R. Valente, Jonathan Montepare, and Danielle Renfrew Behrens. Spiro also served as an executive producer along with Bill Harnisch, Ruth Ann Harnisch, David Stone, David Boies III, Donna Gruneich, Kevin Gruneich, Jenifer Westphal, Patty Quillin, Larry Taube, and Matthew Spitzer.
Starring Dominque Fishback (HBO’s The Deuce) and 10-year-old tyro Tatum Marilyn Hall, the story follows Angel Lamere who is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, Angel embarks on a journey with her little sister to avenge her mother’s death.
Producers are Alvaro R. Valente, Jonathan Montepare, and Danielle Renfrew Behrens. Spiro also served as an executive producer along with Bill Harnisch, Ruth Ann Harnisch, David Stone, David Boies III, Donna Gruneich, Kevin Gruneich, Jenifer Westphal, Patty Quillin, Larry Taube, and Matthew Spitzer.
- 5/1/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Jordana Spiro has appeared as an actor on Ozark, The Good Wife, Dexter and a number of other TV series. She makes her debut as a feature film director with Night Comes On, a film she also co-wrote with Angelica Nwandu, the founder of the Instagram-based company The Shade Room. The film tells the story of two troubled sisters: Angel (Dominique Fishback) and Abby (Tatum Marilyn Hall). Spiro hired Taylor Levy, an additional editor on the 2017 Sundance title Brigsby Bear, to edit the film. Before its five screenings at Sundance 2018, Levy spoke with Filmmaker about what drew him to the […]...
- 1/26/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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