Itunu Adeteye is, by her own account, the head of PR and marketing for The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives

With three expensive cinema outings landing in the same short window, most Nigerians simply won’t be able to justify paying for all three in

Bollywood Just Showed The World What This Structural Gap Looks Like When It’s Exploited Days after I raised this question in Part 1, Bollywood handed the industry a live, ongoing case study of the exact vulnerability I described. Since early 2025, several major Hindi-language releases, including Sky Force, Chhaava, and Game Changer, have faced public accusations of a practice trade insiders call “block booking,” where producers, distributors, or the stars attached to a film a

For years, we’ve treated a box office figure the way we treat a scoreline, final, factual, beyond dispute.

There is something immediately appealing about the idea behind 19, Written and directed by Tola Odunsi.

Somewhere along the way, platforms like your favorite, Cinema Pointer, decided that criticism and cruelty were the same skill. They are not.

James Abinibi’s One Gidi Night arrived at Nigerian cinemas on September 11 wearing the label “neo-noir”.

Somebody needs to say it plainly: the Nigerian film premiere, as it currently exists, is not a marketing event. It is a cremation ceremony f

There is something admirable about Ordinary People. The film is clearly not afraid to dream big. You can see the intention behind it.

One problem with the “Old Nollywood versus New Nollywood” argument is that it starts the history too late. Nollywood did not begin with Livi

Blessing Uzzi, let’s get one thing straight, nobody is questioning the fact that Call of My Life is doing well at the box office.

Living in Colors didn’t get ambushed by the censors, it walked straight into a wall it had every opportunity to see coming.

There is something deceptively simple about A Father’s Secret. On the surface, it looks like the kind of family drama Nollywood has made cou

Here is the uncomfortable truth this Roundtable is built on: Nollywood's most important debates do not happen in Nollywood. They happen on Twitter, in fragments, at 11pm, between people who will never share a stage. Storytelling quality is debated in quote tweets.

We live in a time where the tools of filmmaking have become more accessible than ever. You don’t necessarily need a million-naira camera, a

Let's be honest about what Nollywood actually was before anyone dared call it an industry worth billions. It was a N150 VCD from the man at

To understand why Adeyemi's silence lands as hard as it does, you have to sit with what the book actually was, not just what the trailer is promising. Children of Blood and Bone didn't sell over three million copies and debut at number one on the New York Times bestseller list because it was a competent fantasy adventure with African scenery.

Here's the uncomfortable structural truth underneath all of this: Nollywood, as it currently operates, has no real mechanism for measuring an actor's growth, so it has quietly substituted something easier to measure instead, reliability. Can this person deliver the same performance, on time, without drama, in a way the audience has already proven it will pay for?

Here’s my honest advice before you buy that ticket: leave the first Agesinkole at the door. Don’t walk in expecting a continuation, because

Nollywood has an entire informal apparatus for policing what's "decent", actors get dragged for kissing a co-star while married, producers g