The long-anticipated screen adaptation of Lola Shoneyin’s “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives” is moving from a previously announced series for Netflix (where EbonyLife had a multi-title deal) to a feature film for cinemas. […]
It is a new year and a new box-office milestone for Nollywood’s reigning box-office queen, Funke Akindele. As widely anticipated, Akindele has become the first filmmaker in Nigerian cinema history to cross the 2 billion […]
AFRIFF 2025 award-winning period romantic drama To Adaego with Love, directed by Nwamaka Chikezie, is scheduled to open in Nigerian cinemas on February 6, 2026. Set in 1975, the film tells the story of a […]
The S16 Film Festival closed its fifth edition with some major announcements, unveiling plans to launch a film lab, monthly screenings, and a dedicated distribution arm beginning in 2026. What began as a filmmaker-centred festival […]
Hardly a public statement of direction has come from Netflix, one of the foreign platforms that has invested heavily in Nollywood in recent years. But that momentum noticeably slowed at the beginning of the year, […]
Two anticipated Nollywood projects, King of Thieves 2 and a remake of the classic, Agbara Nla, have recently been announced with the streaming platform, Circuits named as a co-producer on both projects. Being on board […]
AFRIFF: A first feature often defines the trajectory of a director’s career. It shapes how audiences will come to perceive their work and what threads they’ll follow through subsequent projects. For The Boy Who Gave, […]
About a decade after the #WeAreModelsNotSlaves campaign drew attention to poor pay and unfair treatment in Nigeria’s modelling industry, a new documentary is revisiting the lives and realities of models in the country. (Click to Follow […]
August 2025 witnessed a notable collaboration between Fusion Intelligence Technologies and Café One to launch FilmHub, a community cinema initiative. Screened at the multi-city event was Nora Awolowo-produced Red Circle across Café One locations in […]
Kenyan-Nigerian co-production One Woman One Bra has clinched the 2025 Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at the BFI London Film Festival, which concluded on 19 October. The Jury members of Kibwe Tavares, Anja Fröhner […]
