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2016 ₦50,505,000 [42] Native FilmWorks / Michel Angelo Production / Bolanle Austen-Peters Production Steve Gukas: 74 Nneka The Pretty Serpent: 2020 ₦50,051,510 [43] Play Entertainment Network Tosin Igho [44] [45] 75 Big Love: 2023 ₦48,466,373 Inkblot Productions: Biodun Stephen: 76 Omugwo: 2017 ₦48,000,000 [46] Golden Effects / Africa ...
The Nigerian film industry is the largest in Africa in terms of volume, number of annual films, revenue and popularity. [9] [10] [11] It is also the second largest film producer in the world. [12] In 2016, Nigeria's film industry contributed 2.3% to its gross domestic product (GDP). [12]
By the end of 2013, the film industry reportedly hit a record breaking revenue of ₦1.72 trillion (US$11 billion). As of 2014, the industry was worth ₦853.9 billion (US$5.1 billion) making it the third most valuable film industry in the world, behind the United States and India. It contributed about 1.4% to Nigeria's economy; this was ...
Dick Cruikshanks as Piet Retief in the 1916 silent film, "The Voortrekkers" (or "Winning a Continent" in the USA).. The first film studio in South Africa, Killarney Film Studios, was established in 1915 in Johannesburg by American business tycoon Isidore W. Schlesinger when he traveled to South Africa against his family's wishes after he read about the discovery of gold in Witwatersrand and ...
The worldwide theatrical market had a box office of US$42.2 billion in 2019. The top three continents/regions by box-office gross were Asia-Pacific with US$17.8 billion, the U.S. and Canada with US$11.4 billion, and Europe, the Middle East and North Africa with US$10.3 billion.
A 2021 UNESCO report said that the film industry could help add $20 billion to Africa's combined GDP. Idris Elba has set his sights on relocating to Africa, he said in an interview published this ...
It was 2016's highest opening gross for a Philippine film until it was surpassed by the Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla starrer Barcelona: A Love Untold, which grossed ₱23 million according to Star Cinema. Overall, Imagine You and Me was a big box office hit and had a successful four-week run in Philippine cinemas nationwide.
It later became the highest-grossing animated film at the domestic box office, surpassing Shrek 2 ($441.2 million in 2004). It became the first animated film to cross $450, $460, $470, and $480 million at the domestic box office. Along with Zootopia, it became one of two animated films to earn over $1 billion in the same year, a first. It also ...