The Largest Market For Yoruba Epic Movie, "Orisa" is in Brazil and Not in Nigeria
Friday, September 8, 2023
The Largest Market For Yoruba Epic Movie, "Orisa" is in Brazil and Not in Nigeria
Saturday, August 12, 2023
"UNFORGIVABLE" is On the Top Nigerian Movies at the Cinemas
UNFORGIVABLE is the Most Daring Nigerian Movie on Sex and Rape
A new Nollywood romantic drama, "Unforgivable’ is the most daring Nigerian thriller on mistaken love affair, lust for sex and rape starring popular Nollywood diva, Nancy Isime in her sexiest role with fast rising Nollywood sex symbol, Timini Egbuson. The raunchy erotic scenes are only for adults.
The movie written, produced and directed by Osezuah Elimihe, one of the outstanding filmmakers in Nollywood is already on the Top 10 box office since it started showing at cinemas nationwide with a Watch and Win promo of N100, 000 for moviegoers.
Other actors featured are Jude Orhorha, Victor Eriabie, Mercy Isoyip, Anthonia Okojie, Emeka Okoye, Kokoette Omoinyang. Ijeoma Richards, Joseph Momodu, Aaron Sunday, Moses Nwosu, Osasu Esemuede, Linda Igwe and Aloysius Onyejegbu.
The Synopsis:
An arrogant, self assured, rich, debonair, mid level investment banking professional with an excessive lust for women finds himself mired in a rape charge. In the game of saving himself from life imprisonment and odium, he rejects assistance from his powerful, but modest father and chooses to go it all alone. He will find his cook, who reveres him for his generosity, and his cousin, with whom he has a steaming incestuous relationship, dependable in the fight, but will this be enough for him?
"Unforgivable" is a production of AISRE Pictures with the media partnership of Megalectrics Ltd (operators of Classic FM 97.3 & The Beat 99.9FM) and distributed by Blue Pictures Entertainment.
Watch the Uncensored Trailer on
http://kissesandroses..com/2023/08/nancy-isime-in-unforgivable-is.html
Thursday, June 22, 2023
In Her Eyes: Through Her Eyes Filmmaking Workshop For Women in Nigeria
In Her Eyes: Through Her Eyes Filmmaking Workshop For Women By Women Program in Nigeria
The Women in Film and Television International (WIFTI) in Nigeria are launching the first annual "In Her Eyes Through Her Eyes" Filmmaking Workshop For Women By Women Program in Nigeria for 100 women every year with the goal to increase the number of women professionals working in the Nigerian film industry.
About WIFTI in Nigeria
The maiden workshop will take place in October, 2023.
Facts about Women Making Movies in Nollywood
Do you know that Nigerian female filmmakers have produced the top three and most of the highest grossing Nollywood films so far?
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Warner Bros. 100 Years of Storytelling
By Mark A. Vieira
Foreword by Ben Mankiewicz
Description
In this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros. vault bring a century of entertainment to vivid life.
The history of Warner Bros.is not just the tale of a legendary film studio and its stars, but of classic Hollywood itself, as well as a portrait of America in the last century. It’s a family story of Polish-Jewish immigrants—the brothers Warner—who took advantage of new opportunities in the burgeoning film industry at a time when four mavericks could invent ways of operating, of warding off government regulation, and of keeping audiences coming back for more during some of the nation's darkest days.
Innovation was key to their early success. Four years after its founding, the studio revolutionized moviemaking by introducing sound in The Jazz Singer (1927). Stars and stories gave Warner Bros. its distinct identity as the studio where tough guys like Humphrey Bogart and strong women like Bette Davis kept people on the edge of their seats. Over the years, these acclaimed actors and countless others made magic on WB’s soundstages and were responsible for such diverse classics as Casablanca, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Star Is Born, Bonnie & Clyde, Malcolm X, Caddyshack, Purple Rain, and hundreds more.
It’s the studio that put noir in film with The Maltese Falcon and other classics of the genre, where the iconic Looney Tunes were unleashed on animation, and the studio that took an unpopular stance at the start of World War II by producing anti-Nazi films. Counter-culture hits like A Clockwork Orange and The Exorcist carried the studio through the 1970s and '80s. Franchise phenomena like Harry Potter, the DC universe, and more continue to shape a cinematic vision and longevity that is unparalleled in the annals of film history. These stories and more are chronicled in this comprehensive and stunning volume.
Copyright © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Friday, February 10, 2023
Why Did "Avatar: The Way of Water" Fail in Nigeria?
Why Did "Avatar: The Way of Water" Fail in Nigeria?
James Cameron's awesome sci-fi epic "Avatar: The Way of Water" has been a huge box office success, breaking multiple records, and grossing over $2.177 billion worldwide so far. It was the highest-grossing film of 2022, the highest-grossing film of the COVID-19 pandemic era, and the fourth highest-grossing film of all time. But it has failed in Nigeria grossing less than $800, 000 in 7 weeks in the country where "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" has made $2 million so far.
Why?
Poor marketing and publicity caused the failure of "Avatar: The Way of Water" in Nigeria in competition with the highest grossing Nigerian movie, Funke Akindele's " The Battle on Buka Street" that has grossed over $1 million so far in 7 weeks.
Both the local and international film distributors failed in the marketing and publicity of "Avatar: The Way of Water" in Nigeria.
General poor marketing and publicity have caused many Nigerian and foreign movies to bomb in Nigeria and not because there are not enough cinemas in the most populous country in Africa.
If "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" can make $2 million in 12 weeks in Nigeria, then "Avatar: The Way of Water" should have made over $1 million by now.
#Avatar
#avatarthewayofwater
#jamescameron
#blackpanther
#blackpantherwakandaforever
#boxoffice
#bomb
#filmdistributors
#movies
#Hollywood
#Nollywood
#cimemas
#film
#nigeria
#marketing
#media
#entertainment
#publicity
#success
#water
#africa
#covid
- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Is Nollywood Really Booming?
Is Nollywood Really Booming?
The sociocultural phenomenon of the guerilla filmmakers of Nollywood, the first indie film industry in Africa has been attracting global attention making news headlines of the foreign news media since the early 1990s and making the stars of the low budget movies household names across Africa. "Nollywood is booming" echoed from the street to the internet and on the popular cable TV channels called Africa Magic on DStv and GOtv of the MultiChoice Group of South Africa.
Friday, January 6, 2023
Funke Akindele’s "Battle on Buka Street" Likely To Be The First Nollywood Movie To Make N1 Billion
Funke Akindele’s "Battle on Buka Street" has made more than N300 million within only three weeks in the cinemas in Nigeria by pulling more crowds of moviegoers than James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water".
The current box office report from the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) shows "Battle on Buka Street" at the #1 position with N361, 3556, 446 from 132, 525 admissions followed by James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" at the #2 position with N285, 562, 316 from 94, 402 admissions.
The "Battle on Buka Street" can have over 400, 000 moviegoers before March, 2023.
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Funke Akindele’s "Battle on Buka Street" Overtakes James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" in Top 20 Movies in Nigeria
Funke Akindele’s "Battle on Buka Street" Overtakes James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" in Top 20 Movies in Nigeria
The current box office report from the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) for the top 20 movies in Nigeria shows the Nollywood comedy, Funke Akindele’s "Battle on Buka Street" at the #1 position with N252, 625, 736 from 93, 223 admissions followed by James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" at the #2 position with N222, 372, 805 from 73, 449 admissions.
"The Battle on Buka Street" grossed more than N135 million on the first day of the opening weekend, the biggest single day for a Nollywood film in 2022.
"Battle on Buka Street" is a 2022 Nigerian comedy drama film directed by Funke Akindele and Tobi Makinde. The film is jointly produced as a collaboration between Funke Ayotunde Akindele Network (FAAN) and FilmOne Entertainment.The film had its theatrical release on 16 December 2022
Half sisters, YEJIDE and AWELE are rival mama put sellers who are not strangers to competing; they were born a minute apart to different women and married to different men on the same day . To them, there is a silent competition where one woman must out do the other, but when a set of coordinated attacks on homes and shops in their community become frequent, these rival mama put sellers must come together and put their differences aside, proving that indeed blood triumphs over petty squabbles.
Starring
Funke Akindele
Mercy Johnson
Sola Sobowale
Tina Mba
Nkem Owoh
Femi Jacobs
Kelvin Ikeduba
Edited by Valentine Chukwuma
#Avatarthewayofwater
#Nollywood
#Hollywood
#Jamescameron
#FunkeAkindele
#comedy
#scifi
#fantasy
#movies
Sunday, May 29, 2022
"King of Thieves" of Nollywood and the Myth of Second Largest Film Industry in the World
"King of Thieves", the current highest grossing Nigerian movie has not made up to US$1m in 7 weeks of showing in all the cinemas by the largest cinema chain in Nigeria and West Africa.
The current box office report from the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) shows that #Nollywood is not among the top 10 biggest film industries in the world in box office revenues.
The fictitious stats of UNESCO on Nollywood must have been made up by those who failed to verify the current reports on the Nigerian film industry. They simply made the assumptions from their laptops in Geneva and New York City and cannot even locate Asaba on the map of Africa. By the way, Asaba presently produces more movies than Lagos and other cities in Nigeria. An actor can play major roles in ten different movies within one month in Asaba in Delta State. I doubt if any of the foreign news reporters and writers on Nollywood has been to Asaba. Most of their reports have been written in the comfort of the cozy rooms of the big hotels in Lagos and Abuja.
Now you can see why the so called "booming" second largest film industry in the world is full of hungry actors and directors who are still hustling to make ends meet.
Let us pray.
- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series, Lagos, Nigeria.
#film #nigeria #lagos #africa #business #movies #news
#filmindustry #filmmakers #boxoffice #Asaba #unesco #report #geneva #newyorkcity
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Why "Boycott" Was Not the Highest Grossing Nigerian Movie in March
Why "Boycott" Was Not the Highest Grossing Nigerian Movie in March
I expected "Boycott" to become a box office hit when it was released last month, but it bombed! Why?
This outstanding drama on the insurgency ravaging northern Nigeria was produced and directed by Standfame Ajalaja Stanley, starring the Alpha Males of Nollywood, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD), Kunle Coker and Yemi Blaq with Lovelyn Christian, Uzee Usman, Tolulope Asanu and other actors.
"Boycott" was not the highest grossing Nigerian movie in March, because the film distribution was not given to FilmOne Entertainment that belongs to the same owners of Filmhouse Cinemas, the largest cinema chain in West Africa with 54 screens so far. It was given to Blue Pictures that has only one cinema in Lagos. Therefore, "Boycott" was only shown in 34 locations according to the weekly box office report of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN). If it was distributed by FilmOne, it would have been shown in all their cinemas and also in other cinemas of the members of CEAN to maximize the box office and would have been the highest grossing movie.
The highest grossing NIgerian movie in April is "King Of Thieves" (Agesinkole) of popular actor and filmmaker, Femi Adebayo. The Yoruba epic is a coproduction of Niyi Akinmolayan‘s Anthill Studios and Femi Adebayo‘s Euphoria 360 and co-directed by Adebayo Tijani and Tope Adebayo Salami. It is distributed by FilmOne and showing in 55 locations.
The highest grossing Nigerian movies are those given more showtimes than other movies and not based on meritocracy. But based on economies of scale determined by FilmOne and Filmhouse Cinemas and partners for their mutual benefit. So, if they don't give movies distributed by others enough cinemas, the movies cannot compete with their own movies at the box office.
An upcoming distribution company contacted me and said the politics of CEAN rules above the ethics of equity in the Nigerian film industry. But I said that it's all economics of marketing. The recurrent expenditures with increasing overhead costs in a country without regular power supply makes having cinemas a capital-intensive business. I was at a small cinema with two screens in two small halls and I was wondering how the owners will make ends meet with only 50 seats.
What is the solution?
There is an urgency for more cinemas in Nigeria, because of increasing demand by moviegoers with the increasing population of the country with the fastest growing middle class in sub-Saharan Africa.
0.4 cinema screens to 100,000 people is very small for millions of movie lovers in Nigeria and the present locations of the few movie theatres are not the most appropriate in terms of demographics, because more thousands of people drive for miles to get to the nearest movie theatres, because they don’t have any cinema in their local government areas.
Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series.
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Corruption in Nollywood?
From the Distribution To the Exhibition of NIgerian Movies in Cinemas
When one #Nollywood movie has more screens than other Nollywood #movies, it becomes the highest grossing movie; not on merit, but on favouritism by the film distributors and exhibitors with more cinemas in Nigeria.
Some of the best new movies by NIgerian filmmakers released in 2022 have been relegated with less than 40 cinemas whereas the movies or teleplays by the filmmakers with bottom power or long legs in Nollywood have been given over 51 cinemas to become highest grossing NIgerian movies since 2016 to date.
Is this how it works?
Did the filmmakers given more screens pay for them by rental or what?
The manipulation of the box office in NIgeria is another form corruption in the film industry that is not different from the endemic political corruption caused by the maladministration of the NIgerian government by the corrupt and incompetent public officials and their partners in crime; the contractors in the private sector.
When topocracy overrides meritocracy, mediocrity becomes the order of the day.
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series.
Sunday, March 27, 2022
The American King Movie T-shirt is Free!
The American King T-shirt is up for grabs for every one who is going to watch the most exciting #Hollywood and #Nollywood #comedy on the Top 20 highest grossing movies at the box office in #NIgeria.
Watch and win The American King T-shirt with your ticket. 200 T-shirts to be won!
#TheAmericanKing
#boxoffice
#movie
#tshirts
#drama
Sunday, March 20, 2022
The Biggest Lies on Nollywood and the Nigerian Film Industry in Wikipedia
Total
US$5 Billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria
That the gross box office from Nollywood in 2014 was a total of US$5 Billion as written in the Wikipedia.
Fact
Nollywood has never made even up to US$1 Billion from the box office since 2010 to date.
The biggest film industry in Africa is South Africa and not NIgeria by numbers of cinemas and highest grossing films.
Nigeria is not among the top ten countries with biggest box offices in the world. Nigeria does not even have one quarter of the number of screens in South Africa and South Africa is not among the top ten film industries in the world.
https://nigerianinfopedia.com.ng/largest-film-industries-in-the-world
Being the second largest producer of movies on video in the world after India does not make NIgeria one of the biggest film industries in the world according to the indices of the economics of the global film industry.
Nigeria produces hundreds of movies on video annually, but only about ten percent of them are good enough for theatrical release in the cinemas in Nigeria. The rest end up on YouTube channels, cable TV and websites of movie pirates.
No NIgerian movie has made up to US$3million at the box office in the history of the Nigerian film industry.
All these fictitious fables and fake news on Nollywood must stop.
Facts don't lie.
All liars, including the ignorant self acclaimed experts on Nollywood teaching their so called Masterclasses in America and Europe must stop teaching inaccurate reports on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry. Even Jodie Foster is ignorant of the facts on Nollywood and she is teaching a Masterclass? What does she know about the history of the Yoruba traveling theatre, NIgerian Television Authority (NTA) and Onitsha Market Literature in the development of Nollywood? Does she know about the relationship between Nollywood of the southern region of Nigeria and the Kannywood of the northern region of Nigeria?
- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series
247 Nigeria (@247nigeria) / Twitter
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Friday, March 18, 2022
Cinemas in Nigeria Are Losing Millions of Dollars Due To Poor Marketing and Publicity
Cinemas in Nigeria are losing millions of dollars, because of poor marketing and publicity.
Saturday, March 12, 2022
The American King is the #1 Comedy in Cinemas in Nigeria
The American King is the #1 Comedy in Cinemas in Nigeria
"The American King' is still the #1 comedy in cinemas in Nigeria since the theatrical release on Friday, March 4, 2022.
See showtimes for OZONE CINEMAS on
https://ozonecinemas.com/
"The American King" showing daily at the Ozone Cinemas at the E-CENTRE Centre in Yaba, Lagos, NIgeria.
The most exciting Hollywood and Nollywood comedy/drama is the #1 comedy in Nigeria starring Akon with top American and Nigerian A-List actors, including Andrew Howard, Nick Moran, Dani Renee, Nse Ikpe-Etim and Enyinna Nwigwe.
Seeing is believing!
Cast
Akon
Enyinna Nwigwe
Nse Ikpe-Etim
Rahama Sadau
Luenell
Andrew Howard
Nick Moran
Alexx Ekubo
Jennifer Wenger
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Martin Dingle-Wall
Charles Duckworth
Vanessa Giselle
Massi Furlan
Jean St. James
Ella Kweku
Nea Dune
Malinda Money
Erica Manni
#TheAmericanKing #Nigeria #hollywood #nollywood #comedy
#entertainment #drama #movies #America #Russia #Russian
Filmmakers Should Have 70% of the Revenues from the Cinemas
Filmmakers should be entitled to 70% of the revenues from the screenings of their movies in cinemas.
Friday, December 31, 2021
Omo Ghetto: The Saga, The Highest Grossing #Nollywood Movie of All Time So Far
Omo Ghetto: The Saga, The Highest Grossing #Nollywood Movie of All Time So Far
Omo Ghetto: The Saga also known as Omo Ghetto 2[2] is a 2020 Nigerian gangster comedy film co-directed by Funke Akindele and JJC Skillz.[3] The film stars Funke Akindele, Chioma Akpota, Nancy Isime, Eniola Badmus, Bimbo Thomas, Deyemi Okanlawon and Mercy Aigbe in the lead roles. This was the second film in the Omo Ghetto franchise and it was also the sequel to the 2010 trilogy film Omo Ghetto
The movie grossed over ₦189 million in the opening week and it historically became the first Nollywood film ever to gross over ₦99 million in its opening weekend surpassing the previous record set by The Wedding Party 2. In its second week, the movie continued breaking box office records by grossing over ₦132.4 million and firmly staying at the top of the Nigerian box office and bringing its 2-week gross to a record breaking ₦322 million and placing it as the fourth highest grossing Nigerian movie of all time.In its third week, despite seeing a drop of 43% from the previous week, Omo Ghetto still topped the box office and grossed ₦75.4 million bringing its total cumulative to ₦398.5 million just after three weeks. Omo Ghetto was so popular that it accounted for about 65% of the box office in Nigeria.Omo Ghetto kept dominating the Nigerian box office, raking up ₦45.9 million to top the box office. It brought the cumulative box office figure to ₦444.5 million placing it as the second highest grossing Nollywood film of all time after just four weeks, Omo Ghetto the saga is currently the highest grossing Nigerian movie of all time with ₦468,036,300 just over a month
Omo Ghetto continued dominating the box office in its fifth week grossing ₦35.7 thus bringing its cumulative to ₦480.5 million and becoming the highest grossing Nollywod movie of all time despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The film continued to extend its record by becoming the first Nollywood movie to stay six consecutive weeks at the top of the box office, grossing an additional ₦31.5 million. It also historically became the first ever Nigerian film to gross ₦500 million in Nollywood box office.
The film remained top at the box office in its seventh week, grossing an additional ₦27.3 million.bringing its cumulative to ₦539.6. Omo Ghetto topped the box office in its eighth, ninth and tenth week respectively becoming only the second movie in English speaking West Africa to cross the ₦600 million mark after Black Panther.
Friday, June 25, 2021
Brown Sugar: The Highest Grossing Film by a Nigerian Filmmaker
The Highest Grossing Film by a Nigerian filmmaker is "Brown Sugar" of 2002, an American romantic comedy written by Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa, directed by Famuyiwa, and starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan.
It grossed US$28, 316, 451.
Famuyiwa is a Nigerian-American director, producer and screenwriter of outstanding films, including The Wood (1999), Brown Sugar(2002), Talk to Me (2007), Dope (2015), and Confirmation (2016).
Sunday, January 3, 2021
"Omo Ghetto: The Saga" Grossed N124 Million Within 7 Days - Breaks Box Office Records in Nigeria
#omoghettothesaga
#Nollywood
"Omo Ghetto: The Saga" Grossed N124 Million Within 7 Days - Breaks Box Office Records in Nigeria.
I predicted this happening when it was released on #Christmas Day, December 25, 2020.
Cinemas should let it run till #Valentine's Day.
The most profitable Nigerian movie so far is The Wedding Party 1 that grossed over N453 million from the box office with a film production budget of only ₦60 million.
The sequel, "The Wedding Party" 2 is currently having the record for the highest grossing Nigerian movie with N500 million from the box office, but it cost N300 million to make it. So, if you subtract N300 million from N500 million, you are left with only N200 million. So, the producers did not make any profit. They lost millions of naira.
The fact is they would have made more money from movie merchandising of "The Wedding Party" franchise. But they were clueless about how to do so.
- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series.
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Funke Akindele Bello Wraps Up 2020 With Grit and Gusto in "Omo Ghetto: The Saga"
This is the biggest and hottest #Nollywood action movie of the moment. And she is jumping into the New Year 2021 with pomp! I see the movie breaking the box office records of "The Wedding Party" by the Valentine's Day in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.
The public demand for "Omo Ghetto: The Saga" should make it run till March, 2021.
Funke Akindele should maximise the momentum by exploring the movie merchandising opportunities in the commercial production of "Omo Ghetto: The. Saga" T-shirts, #facemasks, face caps, bandanas, shopping bags, etcs; with a positive message that if you don't give up, "las las", you can make it from the ghetto to the top of your dreams like the most famous and richest Nigerian celebrity gossip blogger, Linda Ikeji who came from the Lagos ghetto of Mushin and now living her dreams in her own palatial mansion on Banana Island, off the foreshore of Ikoyi,, described as the most expensive residential neighbourhood in Nigeria by Forbes.
For "Omo Ghetto: The Saga", the saga has just begun!
- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series
247 Nigeria (@247nigeria) / Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/247nigeria https://www.amazon.com/author/Ekenyerengozimichaelchima.