Nollywood has experienced a seismic shift over the last decade. With the advent of streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video commissioning original productions, Nollywood entered a new era ...

Nollywood’s rise to billion-naira box-office hits marks a new era for Nigerian cinema. Once defined by home videos, the industry now delivers blockbuster spectacles that reshape audience expectations, ...

A guide to the top Nigerian movies in cinemas this August 2026, featuring new releases across comedy, historical drama, and ...

Entrepreneur, filmmaker and founder of Come On Naija Productions, Olawumi Fajemirokun, tells Faith AJAYI about her career and other issues Your movie, Afamefuna: An Nwa Boi Story, earned four Africa ...

First there was Hollywood. In the 1940s came Bollywood, the prolific Bombay film industry. But what about their lesser-known cousins Nollywood and Lollywood? “Nollywood” refers to the Nigerian film ...

But if it was a blockbuster that had been rented over and over before it got to your turn, then you’d also have to pray it doesn’t “crack” as you watch it. That was the familiar “home video” era. And ...

ACE filmmaker Lancelot Imasuen has been around for as long as one can remember in Nollywood. He has churned out blockbuster movies like Invasion1897, Adesuwa and the monster hit, Issakaba with the ...

TikTok has a long-running fascination with Old Nollywood films, and by extension, Nigerian comedy. Since the app blew up in 2020, a sizable number of the viral trends on the video-sharing platform ...