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?
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