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Tyler Perry's Straw is still gathering rave reviews in Nigeria after it premiered on Netflix which it reached number one spot ...
A Nigerian man has criticised the trending Netflix movie after watching it with his two daughters. He shared what they did ...
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it ...
This was the year Nollywood made Netflix history. The film stars Nigerian film legend Richard Mofe-Damijo as Paul Edima, a deacon whose dark past returns after his son (Olumide Oworu) is framed ...
Young Ghanaian talent, Eric Afrifa Mensah, has secured a significant role in an upcoming high-profile Nollywood production.
Akinola Davies Jr.’s drama is a rhapsody of sorts, but a rough one that ends in political turmoil and unanswered questions ...
I was watching Nollywood movies — or, rather, I was watching my mother watch them. Nollywood is Nigeria’s version of Hollywood, kind of like India’s Bollywood. It’s one of the largest film ...
Nigerian movies, first on VHS, then on DVD, changed hands prolifically on nearly every continent. Yet progress on television and in the fledgling cinema industry was slow. When I launched ...
There’s a film, Brotherhood, an action blockbuster-style movie, that I produced, which has done really well on Amazon. Just a few years ago people said action didn’t work in Nigeria.
The film, made for “just” $1 million (actually a huge sum for a Nigerian movie), garnered 5.6 million views just 48 hours after its Sept. 22 bow on the platform and was watched by more than 20 ...