Nigerian filmmaker Ifeoma Chukwuogo has returned to the director’s chair with two new projects, Dear Dija and By Eight. With Dear Dija, written by Nduka Ebube Dike from a story by Eleanya Eke and Nduka […]
The Nativity story is heading to Nigerian screens, but not exactly as told in the gospels. Play Network has announced a new project, Silent Night, a reimagining of the birth of Jesus Christ retold within […]
Hijack ‘93 opens with “This film is a fictionalised interpretation of actual events”. When a film begins with such a disclaimer, it gets its audience invested in the story unfolding before them, especially if it’s […]
By the time Moses Inwang’s Blood Vessel’s first act draws near its close, the gnawing, worrying feeling that this might be a bad, melodramatic movie begins to creep in on you. The emotional outbursts from […]
Charles Okpeleke of Play Network, under his vision to tell historical-based Nigerian stories and make modern versions of Nollywood classics, charges forward with the production of Hijack ‘93, a film that will be based on […]
This article is updated frequently to reflect new information and announced details. Nollywood filmmakers are pushing the boundaries of what stories they are telling and how. One of those ways is through the telling and […]
Glamour Girls is a remake of the 1994 Nollywood classic of the same title albeit with a different plot and set in contemporary times. There are too many parallel plots in this movie to be […]
Play Network Studios is leaving a trail of remakes. It opened with Living in Bondage, then Rattlesnake: the Ahanna Story, and now Nneka the Pretty Serpent.
