The Platform That Asked Producers to Trust It With Their Films. Then Left Them Alone With the Results.
Inside Spixie Virtual Cinema — the promises, the producers who believed them, and what happened when the marketing stopped at the point of sale
Behind The Scenes Is Number One on Netflix. The Film That Changed Nigerian Box Office Is Now Changing How the World Sees Nollywood.
Behind The Scenes went to Netflix on April 3 — 113 days after its theatrical opening — and immediately trended globally. NollyPrime reads what its streaming performance says about sequencing, the 113-day window as deliberate strategy, and why the film that broke every Nigerian record is now redefining what international audiences expect from Nollywood.
Trade by Bata Opens Today. Biodun Stephen Has a Proven Formula. The Question Is Whether the Village Setting Can Carry the Weight.
Trade by Bata opened April 11. Biodun Stephen directs KieKie in a diaspora return-to-village story that world-premiered at NollywoodWeek Paris. The formula is proven. Whether a rural setting and stripped-back premise can do what Gingerrr's urban energy did is the commercial question this weekend will begin to answer.
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AMVCA 2026: Gingerrr and The Herd Lead With Nine Nominations Each. The More Important Story Is What Is Missing.
Gingerrr and The Herd lead the AMVCA 2026 field with nine nominations each. The more revealing story: every title in the Best Movie category had a cinema run. Streaming platforms, once dominant in these nominations, are entirely absent from the top category. The theatrical market has reasserted itself as the credibility standard.
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Anikulapo Season 2 Took the Franchise to Ghana, Tackled the Slave Trade, and Lost Kunle Remi. Here Is What Afolayan Built.
Anikulapo Season 2 landed on Netflix Nigeria January 30. Shot in 50 days across Oyo State and Cape Coast Ghana, with a story entering the transatlantic slave trade. Kunle Remi does not return. The geo-blocking complaints are the sound of an audience too large for its current distribution. NollyPrime reads the full picture.
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Honouring the Architects of African Cinema
Built EbonyLife from a TV channel into a multi-platform studio with Netflix and Amazon Prime co-production credits.
Lionheart: the first Nigerian film acquired by Netflix. Her directorial debut compressed a decade of industry progress.
The Wedding Party proved Nollywood romantic cinema could be sophisticated, high-concept, and commercially dominant.
Without Ogunde there is no Nollywood. The cultural infrastructure he built before the industry had a name remains its deepest…
Behind The Scenes Review: The Film That Broke Every Record Does Not Disappoint on the Small Screen
The ₦2.76 billion conversation has been so large and so sustained that it has almost obscured the film…
Oversabi Aunty Review: Toyin Abraham Has Made a Film That Understands Exactly What Kind of Funny It Is
To understand what makes Oversabi Aunty work, you have to understand what kind of comedy it is not…
Kilanko Review: Allwell Ademola’s Final Film Is a Work of Quiet, Serious Intent
The Abiku figure — the spirit child of Yoruba cosmology who arrives in the world with the intention…