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Ghana film biz bounces back
Five years before "Living in Bondage" introduced Nigerians to the filmmaking style that would one day spawn Nollywood, Ghanaian filmmakers had already begun experimenting with similar video production...
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Nigerian directors target bigscreen
"Nollywood is dead," says a Nigerian entertainment lawyer, sipping a beer in a fashionable restaurant in the capital of the country's entertainment industry.
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‘Yellow Sun’ rises in West Africa
CREEK TOWN, NIGERIA -- Six days into shooting the film adaptation of "Half of a Yellow Sun," the bestselling novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, cast and crew in this small tropical...
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Nigerian players deal over meals at the O’jez
LAGOS -- On a recent Sunday night at O'jez Chinese Restaurant, promoter Opa Williams was on hand to launch Nite of a Thousand Laughs Extra, the pan-African edition of his popular Nigerian standup...
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Hastings: Original Content Not Crucial to Netflix … Yet
Original programming is important to Netflix–just not that important yet, according to Reed Hastings. The Netflix CEO maintained a tricky balancing act at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media &...
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WE TV Renews “Mary Mary” For Third Season
WE TV has renewed “Mary Mary” for a third season, ordering 10 hourlong episodes of the docuseries.
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Edward Fox joins West End ‘Audience’
Edward Fox (“The Day of the Jackal”) has stepped into the role of Winston Churchill opposite Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Audience,” currently in the midst of preview performances in the...
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Digital Site Taps Into Nollywood
JOHANNESBURG — With the bulky frame of an NFL linebacker, iRoko Partners CEO Jason Njoku was hard to miss as he paced the hall at the Discop Africa conference in Johannesburg last winter. If all eyes...
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Tom Cullen Joins ‘Downton Abbey’
Tom Cullen has joined the cast of “Downton Abbey.” Also joining the cast are Julian Ovenden, Kiri Te Kanawa and Harriet Walter. The news comes on the heels of several major cast members’ departures....
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Relativity’s Education Arm Travels to Africa in Outreach Initiative
Hollywood met Nollywood at the recently wrapped Africa Intl. Film Festival (AFRIFF) in Nigeria, where Relativity reps underscored the studio’s increased efforts to boost capacity for African...
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Nigerian Director Bows New Feature With Help From Air France
Veteran Nigerian helmer Kunle Afolayan wants the world to know his ambitions are sky-high. So for his fifth feature, “The C.E.O.,” he’s taking his premiere 30,000 feet into the air. It’s a marketing...
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Nigeria Scraps Plans for $10 Million Film Village After Muslim Clerics Protest
It was billed as a project that would jump start economic development and transform the film industry in an impoverished region. But just days after a presidential spokesman announced the creation of a...
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‘Wedding Party’ Fuels Record Nigerian Box Office Despite Ailing Economy
Security fears, a lingering recession, and continuing uncertainty surrounding a stalled reform agenda have made for tough times in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and second-largest economy....
View ArticleAFM: Nigerian Film Industry Looks to Work With Hollywood Partners
Nollywood and Hollywood will come together this year for the first Nigerian Intl. Film Summit during the American Film Market in the Loews Santa Monica. The event brings together some of Nigeria’s top...
View ArticleRattled by Pandemic, Protests, Nigeria’s Film Industry Looks to Rebound
When Nigerian cinemas reopened in September after a months-long lockdown, Moses Babatope, co-founder of the distributor and production company FilmOne Entertainment, began looking ahead to a busy fall...
View ArticleAmazon Enters Nigerian Film Market With Multi-Year Licensing Deal With...
Amazon Prime Video is breaking into the Nigerian film market, also known as “Nollywood.” The global streaming service has struck a multi-year licensing deal with Nigerian production outfit Inkblot...
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