NGpatriot:
In the movie-making celluloid era, the industry names were Only films of the celluloid the highest-grossing moving in Nigeria before the Wedding party was a movie made in 1977 by Babatunde Adu/Jab Adu’s Bisi: Daughter of the River.


The leaders in the industry were Chief Hubert Ogunde like Aiye and Ayanmo, Chief Adeyemi Afolayan, Ajani Ogun, Ade Love and so on.

There was no industry before aba and iweka producers started Nollywood.

which industry are you talking about?

How much did they contribute to GDP?

leokid866:

You new line protesters really don't know how the world works....but continue down your line while everybody else keeps it pushing.

You are the one who doesn't know what leadership do in an organization.

The Nigerian problem is leadership failure.

Kingspin:
You are the one who doesn't know what leadership do in an organization.

The Nigerian problem is leadership failure.

I'm not arguing that part of Nigerias problem is leadership failure, but you can't put it all on them, you can't tell me that despite their failures industries and people haven't risen and supported the nation in one way or the other.....despite security failures I know several people still making millions from farming, despite bad economy I know people in various sectors cashing out and cashing out big. You sit there staging yourself against government failure forgetting to ask yourself what you can do to help the situation.....remember even Abraham Lincoln said ask not what my government can do for me, but what I can do for my government. Great example of that is Dangote someone like him could have easily abandoned the nation, but instead he set a 10 year plan to build his own refinery. I assure you once that is done fuel and gas would be cheaper. With gas been cheaper all our gencos will be able to generate more electricity helping our power problem....but you feel free to keep shouting at the government and leave the rest of to it.

RTSC:

There was no industry before aba and iweka producers started Nollywood.

which industry are you talking about?

How much did they contribute to GDP?

After Nigeria's independence in 1960, the cinema business rapidly expanded, with new cinema houses being established.[30] However, there came a significant influx of American, Indian, Chinese and Japanese films; posters of films from these countries were all over theatre halls and actors from these industries became very popular in Nigeria.

Towards the late 1960s and into the 1970s Nigerian productions in movie houses increased gradually, especially productions from Western Nigeria, owing to former theatre practitioners such as Hubert Ogunde, Ola Balogun, Moses Olaiya, Jab Adu, Isola Ogunsola, Ladi Ladebo, Sanya Dosumu and Sadiq Balewa amongst others, transitioning into the big screen.

The first fully commercial Nigerian films, shot on celluloid, were also made by these filmmakers in the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria

One of the earliest Nigerian filmmakers was Ola Balogun, who began celluloid film production in 1969, after returning from film school in France. He partnered with Chief Ogunde in 1979 to direct and co-produce Ogunde’s first celluloid film, Aiye, an adaption of one of his old stage plays.


https://www.stearsng.com/article/the-history-of-film-distribution-in-nigeria

When Yoruba people were making movies in the 60"s, 70's and 80's, you are your people in your villages didn't even have TV to watch movies with.

Ndo... .

Nollywood: Rooted in Yoruba

A. Evan Kresta

Grand Valley State University, krestaa@mail.gvsu.edu

The first Yoruba film was made by Ola Balogun in 1977, Ajani Ogun.

This would be the first in a flood of Yoruba­based films, many of which would come directly from Yoruba plays that were adapted for the screen by Ogunde or Balogun.

This Yoruba travelling theater would lay the groundwork for many of the aesthetic and narrative qualities of the film industry in Nigeria

https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1081&context=cine

Nollywood: Rooted in Yoruba?

Ha!!

Rex Cinema in Ebute Metta, Regal Cinema and Royal Cinema, Capitol Cinema, Casino Cinema, Kings Cinema, Central Cinema, Rialto Cinema, Corona Cinema, Odeon Cinema, Road House Cinema, Ikeja Arms Cinema, Pen Cinema and Glover Hall.

https://guardian.ng/saturday-magazine/return-of-the-big-screen/



Nearly all the movie theaters in Nigeria back in the 60's and 70's were in Western Nigeria, not 1 anywhere in the Eastern region? Well, they didn't even have TV to start with.

leokid866:

I'm not arguing that part of Nigerias problem is leadership failure, but you can't put it all on them, you can't tell me that despite their failures industries and people haven't risen and supported the nation in one way or the other.....despite security failures I know several people still making millions from farming, despite bad economy I know people in various sectors cashing out and cashing out big. You sit there staging yourself against government failure forgetting to ask yourself what you can do to help the situation.....remember even Abraham Lincoln said ask not what my government can do for me, but what I can do for my government. Great example of that is Dangote someone like him could have easily abandoned the nation, but instead he set a 10 year plan to build his own refinery. I assure you once that is done fuel and gas would be cheaper. With gas been cheaper all our gencos will be able to generate more electricity helping our power problem....but you feel free to keep shouting at the government and leave the rest of to it.

No doubt some people are making millions but many are making it smelling their nose.

That is to say, if the government can provide light, road and others more Nigerians will become millionaire and the stress of doing things must have reduced. Poverty decrease.

Forget Dangote matter here, till today cement is much expensive.

Either his refinery going to be a game-changer. He is in for-profit

Blocked Genevieve's Lionheart from being shown at all Nigerian cinemas but went behind to secure a deal from Netflix.

If that ain't shady, I don't know what it is.

ProfDview1:
Omo yoruba nimi oo

Swagger, We gat too much swagger..

Igbos & Yorubas own Nollywood

Only Yorubas own Netflix, bollywood and Hollywood....

blessing always follow us in Yoruba land

As blessing follows us, we make sure it flows to our neighbor Igbos too... They are great people..

Together we are great

Cc lalasticlala mynd44 Seun front page

Helinues MinorityOpinion afamed come ooo..


Yoruba amaka
Igbo afonja
Igbo ewedu
Yoruba akpu

one love brother

LegendHero:


First of all I will fight you because of misinformation unless if you change your post to reflect true realities.

Igbos don’t own Nollywood, they are just part of the numbers and the Yorubas are the mega entrepreneurs raking in all the money from Nollywood. Yoruba own the Nolywood.

If you think I’m lying, attached is the top 50 highest Nollywood grossing movies of all time. Yoruba produced movies dominated the list conveniently and we dominate the list when you also check the top 90 grossing movies.

Yoruba own the Nollywood, Nigeriawood, Musicwood, Awardwood, entertainmentwood. Infact Yoruba rule the entertainment industry in Nigeria.

I don't think it's healthy to link every story to tribalism. The south Africans are right.

U must be a trouble maker..

ProfDview1:
Omo yoruba nimi oo

Swagger, We gat too much swagger..

Igbos & Yorubas own Nollywood

Only Yorubas own Netflix, bollywood and Hollywood....

blessing always follow us in Yoruba land

As blessing follows us, we make sure it flows to our neighbor Igbos too... They are great people..

Together we are great

Cc lalasticlala mynd44 Seun front page

Helinues MinorityOpinion afamed come ooo..


Yoruba amaka
Igbo afonja
Igbo ewedu
Yoruba akpu

I can only laugh at those who want to box a monstrous industry created by Igbos into a small corner in their brain.

Nollywood will get better as more people with big bugdet come in, but the big budgets are still drop in the ocean compared to what is on ground.

You posted a list of all time grossing films even as early as 2012 yet all of their revenues put together are not up to 1% of what the entire industry generate in film sales annually.

The classics that paved the way. Igbo Amaka

From their little '2by2' shops came the wise men from the east who gave Nigeria a $3billion dollar industry.

Low bugdet Classics.

More.

Africans both home and diaspora will forever be grateful to Ndigbo for giving them an insight on how to tell their stories.

We welcome all players, we enjoy the rise of others but we hate with passions revisionists who do not know how far.

RTSC:

There was no industry before aba and iweka producers started Nollywood.

which industry are you talking about?

How much did they contribute to GDP?

Leave the Yeye man. Thier efforts over the years to make Nollywood less attractive with their establishment of Yoruba wood backfired. Now they are shamelessly trying to lick their vomit.

We have no problem with that because we are progressives, but their lies and malicious twisting of narratives will be their greatest undoing.

Anyway most of them in this forum are losers in real life. The collaboration in Nollywood is something else. We move!

......... and for generation to come this shall be the story, that a young Igbo trader with no fancy certificate kickstarted a $3.3 billion dollar industry.

Kenneth Nnebue! Igbo amaka!

gwafaeziokwu:
......... and for generation to come this shall be the story, that a young Igbo trader with no fancy certificate kickstarted a $3.3 billion dollar industry.

Kenneth Nnebue! Igbo amaka!

This one is still living in the past.
Lool

The man that started it all. He has only but primary school certificate. Yet he gave Nigeria a $3.3billion naira industry.

Stuff of legends! Respect!

#Igbo amaka

Twistaray:


This one is still living in the past.
Lool

Did you see the face of ingenuity?

Come on, this man created an industry which is second highest employer of labour after agriculture in Nigeria today and you call it living in the past.

#Igbosense! We move.

gwafaeziokwu:




Did you see the face of ingenuity?

Common , this man created an industry which is second highest employer of labour after agriculture in Nigeria today and you call it living in the past.

#Igbosense! We move.

Ibo news outlets everywhere. Thank God for the modern internet world age.
See Consolation.

God bless the Yorubas for establishing the movie industry and ruling it till now .

Twistaray:

Ibo news outlets everywhere. Thank God for the modern internet world age.
See Consolation.

God bless the Yorubas for establishing the movie industry and ruling it till now .

Ruling with less than 0.1% contribution in the annual cash out.

Dream ooooonnnnnn!!!

gwafaeziokwu:




Ruling with less than 0.1% contribution in the annual cash out.

Dream ooooonnnnnn!!!

According to?

Twistaray:


According to?

According to your brother's list.

Go through it and do the maths. I even dash you all the films produced by Igbos and other tribes but directed by a Yoruba.

I don't want to go through the pain of teaching you about movie ownership.

$590 million is generated by Nollywood movies every year, remove all your high grossing and give me the balance.

That is if you did not skip you maths class like LegendHero.

Twistaray:
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Typical shitgbo oral ego stats.

Hahahahahahah

Butterflies always feel like birds. Igbos are not your mates.

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/may-2013/nigeria%E2%80%99s-film-industry-potential-gold-mine

gwafaeziokwu:


Hahahahahahah

Butterflies always feel like birds. Igbos are not your mates.

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/may-2013/nigeria%E2%80%99s-film-industry-potential-gold-mine

I found this in the article you provided above, and I quote ;

The Nigerian film industry is undoubtedly

Now, do you know what consists Nigeria movie industry?

Oya, get sense abeg.
The image below summed it up after all ;

NIGERIA FIRM INDUSTRY

Twistaray:


I found this in the article you provided above, and I quote ;



Now, do you know what consists Nigeria movie industry?

Oya, get sense abeg.
The image below summed it up after all ;

Now we are getting somewhere. Nigeria film industry.

Your brother said Yorubas are making all the mega cash and backed it up with a list of high grossing movies.

When I summed all of the "mega cash" from them all, ignoring their year of release, I came to a figure that is just less than 1 percent of the entire earnings in Nollywood annually.

I ask again how does less than 1% out of 100% translate to "take over".

gwafaeziokwu:




Now we are getting somewhere. Nigeria film industry.

Your brother said Yorubas are making all the mega cash and backed it up with a list of high grossing movies.

When I summed all of the "mega cash" from them all, ignoring their year of release, I came to a figure that is just less than 1 percent of the entire earnings in Nollywood annually.

I ask again how does less than 1% out of 100% translate to "take over".

The boldened summed it up.
Thank you.

And why not he said so when it's established that's the facts after all? Point of correction the information states ;

highest-grossing Nigerian films of all time in Nigerian movie industry

I believe you understand English? It says, ' of all time " . Trying to fight a lot ofbattle won't change anything, ok?

Twistaray:


The boldened summed it up.
Thanks you.

Hahahahahahahahahaha


I am glad you have seen your folly.

Next time check wella before making silly claims.

Nollywood is bigger than your myopic brain, it is a living breathing money making machine that is presently the second highest employer of labour in Nigeria.

This was made possible by Igbos who created and is still milking the cash from it every day.

You are trying but you are still far behind.

Jason Njoku makes about #1.5 billion annually by just distributing Nollywood movies. That is more than all your high grossing put together.

Take heart inugo. We own this game ,you can't beat an igboman in his business. It is impossicant.

gwafaeziokwu:


Hahahahahahahahahaha


I am glad you have seen your folly.

Next time check wella before making silly claims.

Nollywood is bigger than your myopic brain, it is a living breathing money making machine that is presently the second highest employer of labour in Nigeria.

This was made possible by Igbos who created and is still milking the cash from it every day.

You are trying but you are still far behind.

Jason Njoku makes about #1.5 billion annually by just distributing Nollywood movies. That is more than all your high grossing put together.

Take heart inugo. We own this game ,you can't beat an igboman in his business. It is impossicant.

1.5Billion
Make I see your stats abeg.

Twistaray:


1.5Billion
Make I see your stats abeg.

Why should I even spoon feed you with info

$350,000 per month , do the maths bro.