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Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by Akbee(m): 1:37pm On Aug 07, 2014 |
‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ has set a new first weekend box office record in Nigeria. The record came from showing the movie in 15 cinemas across Nigeria in its first 3 days, with Lagos cinemas topping the charts. ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ is expected to also break the record of the highest grossing movie in Nigeria, being the country of the author of the book, and the director and executive producers of the movie. Half of a Yellow Sun is at the number one spot in Nigerian cinemas, ahead of Marvel Studio’s ‘Guardian of Galaxy’. The movie has been able to surpass other box office trailblazers like Last Flight to Abuja (N8.35Million), Phone Swap (N3.72Million), Maami (N3.30Million), and The Return of Jennifer (N10Million). According to Mr. Kene Mkparu C.E.O of FilmOne Distribution, the distributors of the movie “we have always maintained that the success of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ is the success of Nollywood. If ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ succeeds and from the figures we have, it will succeed, it signifies success for Nollywood. It is our belief that if a film is well done, Nigerian audiences would respond to it and drive its success. ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ is a movie about Nigeria and we believe that Nigerians will drive its success. We are delighted that the Nigerian public has turned out enmass to support the film. We want to urge everyone who has seen this film to go back and see it again and encourage others to see it.” Source; www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/half-yellow-sun-sets-new-box-office-record/
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Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by Akbee(m): 1:38pm On Aug 07, 2014 |
a scene from the movie |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by VillageBoi(m): 3:05pm On Aug 07, 2014 |
Akbee: ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ has set a new first weekend box office record in Nigeria. Vanguard! What rubbish and lazy reporting!! So they write all this and don't even include the figures for the film in question? smh. 6 Likes |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by endymion: 3:22pm On Aug 07, 2014 |
Not surprised a bit that the movie is scoring big. Read it somewhere on nairaland about how bad the movie is but then the author of such post failed to realize that its not about the war but a story of love during the war. It's a well adapted movie. 1 Like |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by Nobody: 2:46pm On Aug 08, 2014 |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie doing great in writing scripts. Nigerian most vocal feminist. ![]() |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by omar22(m): 4:00pm On Aug 08, 2014 |
Common OP Half of a Yellow Sun vs trailblazers like Last Flight to Abuja ,Phone Swap, Maami and The Return of Jennifer (N10Million). Unfair comparisson!!! Half of a Yellow Sun budget is bigger or more than those 4 movies all together, had Hollywood actors/actresses.... So what do you expect. Compare Half of a Yellow Sun with a movies of similar budget, like Tsotsi, Hotel Rwanda, The Last King of Scotland etc 1 Like |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by VillageBoi(m): 7:34pm On Aug 08, 2014 |
omar22: In the 'context' of things I don't think it's an unfair comparison... the article is talking about 'Nigerian films at Nigerian cinemas and their 'domestic' performance' which is actually important information. And I'm pretty sure the other films mentioned didn't have the 'same' budget. |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by Nobody: 8:26pm On Aug 08, 2014 |
VillageBoi:U read my mind dear. Dumb report. |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by Nobody: 8:31pm On Aug 08, 2014 |
endymion: Not surprised a bit that the movie is scoring big. Read it somewhere on nairaland about how bad the movie is but then the author of such post failed to realize that its not about the war but a story of love during the war. It's a well adapted movie.Well said. The writer of dat post u mentioned went 2c clash of the Titans ![]() Half of the yellow Sun is a well scripted movie.I'l score it 6/10 1 Like |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by omar22(m): 7:15am On Aug 09, 2014 |
VillageBoi: All am saying is that you expect the movie to smash all the box record because it had an unfair advantage over the other movies, Its like comparing the movie Jesus of Nazareth to Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ! One could only go straight to DVD then to the TV but the other smashed records at the cinemas, why? Because of its investment, marketing, directing, producing, casts, cinematigraphy, costume, sound editing, etc and this also gave it an advantage over movies that were handled by amateurs |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by Nobody: 1:49am On Aug 21, 2014 |
I loved the movie. humble and brilliant. for a nigerian, it evokes comlex emotions. |
Re: Half Of A Yellow Sun Sets New Box Office Record by Jazzygrafix(m): 1:20pm On Oct 08, 2015 |
Please are there Nollywood movies like this? |
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