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US President Donald Trump’s threat to slap crippling tariffs on foreign-made movies has dominated discussions at the Cannes ...
The Cannes screening of “My Father’s Shadow” by director Akinola Davies Jr marks a milestone for Nigeria’s frantically prolific film industry, nicknamed Nollywood, which is counting on ...
For Black women, who are often overlooked in mainstream Western beauty narratives, Nollywood offers a dense visual repository that centers Black beauty. Moving from Lagos to Atlanta in their ...
A year after Nollywood actor Junior Pope and other crew members lost their lives on a film set, Nollywood has honoured their memories A memorial service was organised for the lost souls at the St ...
The Nollywood industry has been thrown into mourning again following the death of popular actress, Nkechi Nweje. Nweje passed away on Friday at the age of 60 after a brief illness. Movie producer ...
Nollywood actress, Nkechi Nweje, has died after a brief illness. Nweje’s death was confirmed on Saturday by movie producer, Stanley Ajemba, popularly known as Stanley Ontop, via his Instagram ...
Nollywood has come to be recognised as shorthand for Nigeria’s bustling and rapidly expanding mainstream film industry. In terms of quantity of output, it competes favourably with Hollywood and ...
With time, these overly dramatised poster designs were lost to digitisation, and the urge to create minimalist film posters slowly came to a rise, entirely shaping the film industry into a new path.
In Nollywood, one thing is becoming increasingly ... for judging movies based on the presence of “certain people” on posters, highlighting how this mentality stifles the growth of emerging ...
Nollywood, the world’s second-largest film ... The exhibition blended art and history, showcasing film relics such as vintage posters, equipment, scripts, VHS tapes, costumes, and installations ...
By Houreidja Tall In the early 2000s, the femme fatales of Nollywood were seldom seen without pencil-thin eyebrows, a thick, dark swipe of lip liner or a carefully placed, painted-on beauty mark.