No one can deny the huge impact of the film industry on tourism and the best example is Hollywood, the film capital of the world where film tourism is a billion dollar industry.

Hollywood attracts millions of visitors each year as confirmed by the American Tourism Association. Millions of people travel from different parts of the world to visit Hollywood; to see the famous Hollywood Sign overlooking Hollywood live; to visit the major studios such as 20th Century Fox, Buena Vista, Walt Disney Studios and Miramax/Dimension Films, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)., Warner Bros., New Line Cinema.and Universal Studios.; to see the awesome Oscars of the annual Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Emmys and also the film festivals. Millions of tourists visit the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame that is made up of more then 2,500 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood. The stars are monumental tributes to the icons of Hollywood; the famous actors, actresses, directors, producers, musicians, musical and theatrical groups, fictional characters, and others. The Hollywood Walk of Fame attracts over 10 million visitors annually. And Hollywood has made tourism the largest industry in Los Angeles County.

The following Hollywood blockbusters have attracted millions of tourists to their famous film locations as reported on Hollywood movies bring a boom in tourism in Thailand, New Zealand by The Times of India.

The Lord of the Rings: Middle-earth was recreated in New Zealand for the film franchise, which led to a boost in the tourism revenue in the country, with visitors planning tours just to visit locations where the films were shot. Since 2004, an average of 47,000 international visitors have visited these locations each year. Last year, 8.5% tourists surveyed in NZ cited The Hobbit movies as a factor in their interest to visit the country. Once in the country, 13% reported taking The Hobbit-inspired adventures such as the theme park, Hobbiton, near Matamata in the North

Harry Potter: Visitors to Alnwick Castle, Northumberland - Hogwarts in the first two Harry Potter films - have jumped 230% since 2011, pumping an extra £9 million (approximately `91,35,06,957) into the local economy, said a tourism marketing agency in the UK. Film-induced tourism contributed £1.9bn to the UK economy in the year 2009, according to a survey.

Mission Impossible 2: The release of the film in 2000 coincided with the doubling of visitors to Sydney, with 200% increase in visitors to national parks in the city. Ghost Protocol became a major promoter of tourism in Dubai.

The Beach: The film was shot in Koi Phi Phi in Thailand, which saw a 22% increase in young visitors looking for idyllic getaways in 2000.

Four Weddings And A Funeral: The popularity of the film led to the Crown Hotel in Amersham, home to the suite where Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell spent their first night together, to be completely booked for three years.

Brave Heart: Mel Gibson's turn as William Wallace in the 1995 blockbuster war film turned the 1869-erected Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland, into a iconic tourist spot, even though the film wasn't shot there, says a travel journal. The tourist spot wasn't an economically successful one earlier, but the film's release sparked a 300% increase in visitors.

Saving Private Ryan: Normandy, France saw a 40% increase in American tourists after this film, though it was primarily shot in Ireland.

Troy: Canakkale, Turkey, saw a 73% increase in tourism after the Brad Pitt film. This is another example of film-induced tourism where the place benefited from a film despite not being the location for filming.

Pride And Prejudice: According to UK's Film Council, 2006's Pride & Prejudice boosted Chatsworth's visitors by 10% and Basildon Park's by 75%. At Lyme Park in Cheshire - the scene of Mr Darcy's appearance in a wet shirt in Pride and Prejudice on TV - the number of visitors increased from 32,852 in 1994 to 91,437 in 1995.

Crocodile Dundee: According to the Tourist Office of Queensland, Crocodile Dundee turned Australia into a popular spot. In the three years after its release, the number of visitors doubled.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Iceland garnered tourist attention like never before from this Ben Stiller movie. "Ben Stiller became an advocate for visiting the country, publicly declaring his awe of its beauty," said Holte. Die Another Day was also shot in Iceland.

Eat, Pray, Love: Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling book had already fuelled a boom in tourism in Bali, and it increased further with the release of the film. More than 1.8 million foreigners arrived in Bali each year prior to the suicide bombings that killed 202 mostly foreign tourists in 2002, but in 2012, about three million people visited the island.


The following is a report from the American Tourism Association.

Travel and tourism is one of America’s largest industries (2013 data)
• Generated $2.1 trillion in ECONOMIC IMPACT with $887.9 billion spent directly by domestic and international travelers that spurred an additional $1.2 trillion in other industries.
• Directly generated $133.9 billion in TAX REVENUE for local, state and federal governments.
• Each household would pay $1,093 MORE IN TAXES without the tax revenue generated by the travel and tourism industry.
• Direct spending by resident and international travelers in the U.S. averaged $2.4 billion a day,$101.4 million an hour, $1.7 million a minute, and $28,154 a second.
One of America’s largest service exports (2013 data)
• $180.7 billion in travel exports (including traveler spending in the U.S. and international passenger fare payments to U.S. carriers) and the...
• $123.6 billion in in travel imports (including U.S. residents' spending abroad and international passenger fares paid to foreign carriers) creates...
• $57.1 billion in BALANCE OF TRAVEL TRADE SURPLUS for the U.S.
One of America’s largest employers (2013 data)
• Supported 14.9 million JOBS, including 7.9 million directly in the travel industry and 7.0 million in other industries.
• $209.5 billion in travel-generated PAYROLL for those employed directly in the travel industry.
• 1 of every 9 U.S. jobs is created directly or indirectly is induced by travel and tourism.
• Travel is among the TOP 10 INDUSTRIES in 49 states and D.C. in terms of employment.


In view of the comprehensive report with facts and figures on how much Hollywood contributes to boost American tourism, the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) and Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) should take advantage of the international popularity of Nollywood to use it as a vehicle for the promotion and appreciation of Nigerian tourism. But several critics have said that unlike Hollywood, there is no specific location for Nollywood. But the critics are wrong, because the entire Nigeria is the location of Nollywood. There may not be any big film studio, except Tinapa and no Nollywood Walk of Fame at the moment and no awesome movie sets, but Nollywood film producers can see the big picture!
The big picture of using the best tourist attractions in Nigeria as locations of their movies as I have listed them on the Best Film Locations in Nigeria
http://totnaija..com/2014/01/the-best-film-locations-in-nigeria.html

Presently the NTDC has nothing to show on Nollywood as the page for Nollywood on the official website is empty http://tourism.gov.ng/category/tourists-information/locations/cinemas-theaters/nollywood/.
Does this mean, Nollywood has no tourist attractions?

Nollywood has tourists’ attractions that can attract millions of tourists every year. Lancelot Imasuen’s epic “Invasion 1897” can attract millions of visitors to visit the great Benin Kingdom to see the awesome Iya, the Walls of Benin, regarded as the largest earthwork in the world; see the palace of the Oba of Benin and also see the sites of the great bronze artworks.
The film adaptation of Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka’s "Ake The Years of Childhood" in Abeokuta is another epic that can boost international tourism by attracting tourists to Abeokuta in Ogun state.

Nigerian filmmakers should use the exotic tourist attractions in Nigeria for their film locations as we have seen in many Hollywood movies and Bollywood movies.
So, the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) and Nollywood filmmakers should synergize in cooperation and support to produce movies that will boost the Nigerian film industry and tourism.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES, Nollywood Digital, and other publications. Founder and first Festival Director of the annual Eko International Film Festival, Executive Director of Screen Naija One Village, One Cinema project of Screen Outdoor Open Air Cinema and Founder/President of the new Zenith International Film Festival.

Epic read!
Kudos... Orikinla, for this composition.
More power to your elbow.

That is a great write-up.

But let's face some facts - it's easier said than done... few things come to mind - First we seemingly hardly care about putting the right infrastructure in place. Hollywood has major studios spanning acres upon acres of land and have purpose-built tourist infrastructure. The amount of fame the 'Hollywood' sign alone has is huge. A valid point you make is also about filming locations that can become tourist attractions but also consider almost every High Commission/Embassy abroad already warns their people that Nigeria is not a place to visit.
This sort of thing will not happen overnight... biggest issue 'safety'. The country is not even on 'other' people's 'like-list'. All the countries you mentioned where there is film tourism have already had booming regular tourism, films that have reached a world audience, are regarded as 'safe' and so on.

The biggest film tourism in the world is that of the US... they didn't do that overnight. If there is one thing America has done for donkey years is 'sell herself and her image' to the world. Any village discovered under a rock today will have McDonalds and Coka-Cola tomorrow. Even the 'rest of the west' has not in 50yrs been able to match the might of the US selling herself thru the power of propaganda in film. Shebi during the world wars they all sold their 'film birthrights' to the US and will never recover from that. Didn't Europe use to be the leaders of film from German expressionism to Italian neorealism when America was nowhere? In as much as people might not like the Yanks they damn sure know marketing.

If we do not have an 'image' to sell we can forget about the dream of making billions of Dollars from film tourism. And film tourism based on what films even?

It would be fantastic if this can happen and it can but this is something I see as being decades away. What films has Nollywood made that would make a tourist leave his/her country to come and visit the set? I personally can't think of any. Neither is a location/set the only factor as mentioned earlier.
You mentioned the great Benin kingdom... Igun Street which I think is one of the bronze sites is actually a full-fledged 'World Heritage' site... who even knows or even goes there?

If Nigeria as a nation and Nollywood start working on this now it can be pulled off.

Well said Villageboi! I think this is putting the cart before the horse.....thinking of being on the podium at the Olympics while learning to creep. The country is very lacking in basic infrastructure to support tourism and even if some don't mind there is the security threat. The world knows about Hollywood.....who abroad knows about Nollywood? Nollyood movies?....they have no clue what you are talking about although they watched quite a few of the movies. Even the distributors/retailers do not use Nollywood Movies on their store fronts....not even Nigerian Movies....but they all use African Movies. So if the name Nollywood is not even out there why should one be hoping tourists would ome flocking to visit anything Nollywood? If you are hoping for Nollywood to have the same magnetism as Hollywood then you need to adapt the steps they took to reach their oresent status. If it's one thing you need to take away....it's. What Villageboi said.....when it comes to packaging, promoting and selling...the US is numero uno...no country is close.

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True @ Originalsly. We look at what others are doing 'now' without realising there is a whole heap more that makes such a machine work - the very basics - Roads, electricity, water and so on.
What is one thing we know tourists are always doing? Walking in one direction while looking in another with their camera ready to snap. How many of us would dare walk around absent minded with a camera in our hands? That's Xmas for agbero boys nah. Tourists want to feel 'free & safe'... and that is one simple vibe we do not have so the dream that tomorrow millions of people will be visiting Nigeria is just that... a dream.

Until the nation is built up to a certain level of security prior to us even marketing ourselves as a destination to be at, talk less of even putting films out there that will make the average westerner drool at locations this is kind of a very far fetched though.
Rather, we have to, for now, actually concentrate on bettering our craft of filmmaking and building an 'industry' first with infrastructure. We want to run before they even born us sef. One step at a time.

I have been thinking about this topic/thread and hope I can lighten up the current bleak reality so permit me to butcher & paste from some of my old posts from different threads. Sorry it will be a bit long.

As mentioned earlier here I personally believe that 'Nigerian film tourism' on the scale being thought about is decades away from being a reality. However, a 'reality' that is very much possible ASAP is Billions if not Trillions of Naira can still be pulled in yearly.

HOW?

We've all heard the Govt yackety yack of oh we've given $200M and now even a new N3B for entertainment or filmmaking or whatever. The best thing for the Govt to do is not give out a penny to anyone - instead use that money as an investment in the right thing - Theartical Distribution Infrastructure... in other words CINEMAS.

Let's quickly look at some figures (I will state right now that none of these have been verified by me, however, these float around on various forums, threads and articles). First here is the last paragraph of an article found HERE[/quote]

"But Okhai still emphasizes on the quality of production, he says: ‘Cinemas cannot project poor quality films,’ explains Okhai, as ‘your flaws as a film producer are blown in proportion to the size of the screen. Film makers in the Diaspora are returning home to show how good films are made abroad. Their films are changing the way local film producers are making films’. True to Okhai’s theory, movie producers can recover tremendous amounts from cinema viewing. A couple of examples are In 2009 for instance, Stephanie Okereke’s movie, ‘Through the Glass,’ premiered at the cinemas making over N10 million. This was followed by Kunle Afolayan’s ‘The Figurine’ becoming the first local film to make over N30 million in the cinemas. Chineze Anyaene’s film, ‘Ije,’ also recorded tremendous success at the cinemas, making over N57 million and viewed by an estimated 14,000 people. In 2010, ‘Ije’ was reputed to be Nigeria’s highest selling movie in the cinemas, returning to the cinemas three times that year. Its success was next to Hollywood’s ‘Avatar.’ ‘Anchor Baby’ produced by Lonzo Nzekwe also made over N17 million"

So for returns at Nigerian cinemas we have -
Through The Glass - N10m = ($61,957)
The Figurine - N30m = ($185,873)
Ije - N57m = ($353,160)
Anchor Baby - N17m = ($105,328)

BUDGETS (claimed)
Ije - $2.5m
Jeta Amata's 'Black November' - $12.5m
Invasion 1892 - $16m??

To go a bit further, from the budget section, let's pick the film Ije since it has the lowest budget and 'we've heard' it made N57m or just $360,000 – Let us also remember that it took 6yrs to get this return (not verified). Take this post as just ‘general conversation.

I have for a long time been saying that Nigerian filmmaking has to become far more indie-like with much, much smaller budgets. No Nigerian film should have a budget of more than N10m-15m for high-end films. Shall we say a rounded dollar perspective of $100,000. And much lower budget films of $20,000 – 50,000.

Back to the $200m Govt grant or whatever it is and the other N3b floating around.

BUILD CINEMAS!!

Follow my small mathematics of a completely dream scenario and do correct if any figures are wrong.

Dreamland Govt-help scenario –
Let’s say every State in Nigeria has only 2 major cities and in ‘each’ of these cities they build 2 cinemas that have 2 x 200 seater screens… that makes a total of –

36 states x 2 cities = 72 cities to build in
72 cities x 2 cinemas x 2 screens x 200 seats abi? = 57,600 SEATS

Remember we’re only talking 288 screens in total and that isn’t much at all. Let’s put that into perspective –
The UK that doesn't even make films has 3258 screens (Population 62.6 million)
The US has 18,410 screens (Population 311.5 million people)
And OUR population is 160-180 million people.

So we have 57,600 SEATS!!

Remember we’re still talking about a ‘dream-scenario’ here. So a dream OPENING WEEKEND for a film, let’s assume the film is 2hrs long and each change over prep is an hour – ‘duration’ to get the audience in, for them to watch the film and get out is 3hrs – each screen should then be able to show the film at least 4 times a day right?

So a weekend opener of 3 days is 12 showings of said film –

We get 12 x 57,600 seats = 691,200 tickets sold. Let’s make each ticket dead cheap at N250 – afterall cinema is ‘escapism’ for the general population and they are not the rich. N250 is just above the N150 rate of pirated films – but come on for the ‘cinema experience’… why not? Every man chasing a babe will take her to the cinema and yes our men are very randy so that’s all good

691,200 x N250 only = N172,800,000 for just an opening weekend – a possible $1,070,632.
Remember this is a Govt ‘help’ thing so The Govt & filmmakers get a 50:50 share, however, they both put in 5% each for running costs of the cinemas + staff salaries and so on.
So a Nigerian film producer prospectively makes $481,784 on a 3-day opening weekend. What about the rest of the week and say the film runs for 6 weeks?
Let’s do another crazy calculation - $481,784 is over 3 days so 1 day is $160,594 and a 6 week run is 42 days = $160,594 x 42 = $6,744,976
You will NEVER EVER pack a cinema for 6 weeks… so lets say one manages to do only 25% cinema capacity for that period we’re still talking about - $1,686,244

Can anyone here say for a fact that NO Nigerian filmmaker/producer wouldn’t be over the moon making such a figure in 6 weeks off a $100,000 film?

Even the Govt that built this stuff is laughing all the way to the bank afterall we’re bragging some rubbish of how we’re churning out 50 films – an average of 2500 films a year and if just 10% of those can make it into the cinemas we’re talking about 250 films? Sod it that is a lot… let there just be 50 films a year that make it in.

If this could be the case on a common ridiculously tiny number of screens (288), remember Yankee get 18,000 screens.
Not one single filmmaker in Nigeria would ever dare make a low quality film. I said Naira at the start so tell me this is not Billions & Trillions we’re not tapping every year?

Lack of cinema infrastructure simply means we have no ‘industry’ – plain and simple.

Let's got further and imagine 1200 screens in Nigeria for our population of 160-180 million people. Get 2% of that population into the cinemas every week and think of the mind-blowing figures.

Don't you remember people used to rush to video houses to watch video cassette films. Nigerians are people that will madly go to the cinema if we had them... don't underate how Nigerians love to watch films... talkless of GOOD Nigerian films.

How many screens pulled in $202,368 for the Avengers figure in Nigeria? E reach 50? So imagine 1200 screens. Also to take a note of is that is the figure for for just an OPENING WEEKEND & ONE WEEK - from 4-13 May, 2012. That is N31 million for a week on almost zero screens.

Let me take the liberty of adding yet another angle to this – US population = 300m; big box office weekends are an average of $150m – say tickets there are $10 each so we have on average 15 million of a 300m population going to the cinema for a big weekend. That is 5% of the population. Say 5% of the Nigerian population goes for an opening weekend – isn’t that on the low end of 160 million people – EIGHT million people – then multiply by N250 = N2,000,000,000 or $12,391,580 – sounds crazy doesn’t it?

These figures above are far more 'real' than the millions of tourists dream. This is doable in TODAY's age... within 5yrs all of those cinemas can be built. If we actually gave a damn and stopped running around chasing 'bragging rights'.

We have no idea what is being thrown away by not having cinema screens.

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Enlightening!


My question is "how do we separate the bad eggs from the good eggs"?

Do you know that we have screened 'alaba quality' films in our cinemas.? Having parts 1, 2 , 3?

Who determines cinema quality?


Because Nigerians are generally hustlers and spoilers. If this 'dream' happens then expect alaba to open shop at every cinema and both Z-grade and A-grade movies will screen at the cinemas. And with Z-grade higher in number, it might eventually overshadow the quality films.

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Then let them screen 'Z' grade too... it's still a ton more money into the economy. But things will definitely change and I'm pretty sure it will be 'A' grade vs 'B' grade after a short while. Alaba quality will have no other choice than to step up ten fold. What was that Naija sci-fi that was so bad the audience asked for their money back?
Just like in Hollywood it'll turn into 'Grade A', 'Grade B' and 'arthouse' films... anything lower than that will have to be straight to TV/Iroko/online... and to even give the 'pirates' an even bigger kick in the teeth - give 5% of the population of Nigeria piracy-rate N150 tickets. With 3000 screens Nigerians will be living at the cinemas. At N150, 8 million people is N1.2b for a Hollywood-type opening weekend.

With our miniscule number of screens Nigerians spent $3.9m on 'Wolf Of Wall Street' (yes, it's the HIGHEST grossing film ever in Naija cinemas, let's not pretend we don't like jigi-jigi die). And the film did that amount on ONLY 24 screens over a 7 week period. Imagine what just 50x that number of screens would do talk less of 100x.
Wolf Of Wall Street - screen facts - http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&country=NG&id=wolfofwallstreet.htm

VillageBoi: That is a great write-up.

But let's face some facts - it's easier said than done... few things come to mind - First we seemingly hardly care about putting the right infrastructure in place. Hollywood has major studios spanning acres upon acres of land and have purpose-built tourist infrastructure. The amount of fame the 'Hollywood' sign alone has is huge. A valid point you make is also about filming locations that can become tourist attractions but also consider almost every High Commission/Embassy abroad already warns their people that Nigeria is not a place to visit.
This sort of thing will not happen overnight... biggest issue 'safety'. The country is not even on 'other' people's 'like-list'. All the countries you mentioned where there is film tourism have already had booming regular tourism, films that have reached a world audience, are regarded as 'safe' and so on.

The biggest film tourism in the world is that of the US... they didn't do that overnight. If there is one thing America has done for donkey years is 'sell herself and her image' to the world. Any village discovered under a rock today will have McDonalds and Coka-Cola tomorrow. Even the 'rest of the west' has not in 50yrs been able to match the might of the US selling herself thru the power of propaganda in film. Shebi during the world wars they all sold their 'film birthrights' to the US and will never recover from that. Didn't Europe use to be the leaders of film from German expressionism to Italian neorealism when America was nowhere? In as much as people might not like the Yanks they damn sure know marketing.

If we do not have an 'image' to sell we can forget about the dream of making billions of Dollars from film tourism. And film tourism based on what films even?

It would be fantastic if this can happen and it can but this is something I see as being decades away. What films has Nollywood made that would make a tourist leave his/her country to come and visit the set? I personally can't think of any. Neither is a location/set the only factor as mentioned earlier.
You mentioned the great Benin kingdom... Igun Street which I think is one of the bronze sites is actually a full-fledged 'World Heritage' site... who even knows or even goes there?

If Nigeria as a nation and Nollywood start working on this now it can be pulled off.

You are right.

prof800:
^^^^^^
Enlightening!


My question is "how do we separate the bad eggs from the good eggs"?

Do you know that we have screened 'alaba quality' films in our cinemas.? Having parts 1, 2 , 3?

Who determines cinema quality?


Because Nigerians are generally hustlers and spoilers. If this 'dream' happens then expect alaba to open shop at every cinema and both Z-grade and A-grade movies will screen at the cinemas. And with Z-grade higher in number, it might eventually overshadow the quality films.

The quality movies qualify for international awards and film festivals. But the 'Alaba' movies remain circulating in 'Alaba'.
Chika Anadu's "B for Boy" won the AFI's Breakthrough Award and the 'Alaba" movies cannot even get an IV.

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Orikinla:

The quality movies qualify for international awards and film festivals. But the 'Alaba' movies remain circulating in 'Alaba'.
Chika Anadu's "B for Boy" won the AFI's Breakthrough Award and the 'Alaba" movies cannot even get an IV.

True talk. Quality will always stand out! And if what we're talking about happens even 'Alaba' will step up... there just won't be a choice if that sort of money is being made from cinema viewings.

@ We-Know-You Thanks for the unblock and fixing the previous post - that spambot can catch me well-well.

@Villageboi you are spot on in your calculations for the cinema investments. Nigerians are looking for places to relax other than beer parlors and cinemas will do that. From experience I can tell you that making the cinema prices affordable will bring in the crowd. One of the movies I screenplayed made half of its takings at Silverbird cinemas, Uyo where a ticket is N250.That's why I will tell anybody who has the money to invest in movies to put it in distribution and the rest will take care of itself. I tell you even the Alaba boys will improve their movies. Take care of this then we can be talking of film tourism.

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Well said Lynx. What we really have to do is build an 'industry' first which simply means everything found in a film industry of which cinemas are a HUGE & crucial part and then 'other' things, in time, will follow.

Yh thats true
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It will. But first before it attracts outsiders the insiders also have to play their parts. Mayhaps if we all join in to support, promote, advertise it to the outside world then hopefully we can achieve this feat. What am I talking about? Buy original films, watch nigerian films at the cinema etc. Thanks

Not much of a fan when it comes to building cinemas. I really think cinema is a 20th century thing and is slowly dying with the growth and advancement of digital technology. Older generations would support cinemas but the current and future generations would prefer streaming...even on their phones. Around my way so many cinemas have closed...some turned into church...some stores...some mini malls...and others just remain shut down.

Great write up. But I think the quality productions made in Nigeria are too few and far between to actually sustain continued outsider interest in Nollywood. You can count the number of quality films over the years on your fingers and toes. Instead we have poor quality films with poor acting, detestable graphics, terrible story lines, below par directing and poor picture quality. These films overshadow the quality ones and give us a general bad reputation.
If the regulation board can up their ante and proper film studios that can finance films well come up. Then, the sky is the starting point because we have the resources.

OP na billion dollar u hear

Honestly, Nollywood can't achieve that height just yet...

1.Isn’t funny that a Ghost picks up a call in Nollywood, how is this possible?

2. Why would a Ghost have to look “left and right” before crossing the road?

3.Isn’t it funny for two Ghost to fall in love, na wa!

4. Why is it that Nollywood characters die or run mad immediately after their confessions?

5. How come a legendary Village Movie, set in the 70′s, still find Brazilian hair on Mercy Johnson?

6. Must all hired assassins be found in uncompleted or abandoned buildings?

7. Will a Yoruba movie ever be complete without a visit to the ‘Baba’?

8. Observe, nine out of ten times, Olu Jacobs dies of heart attack in Nollywood movies, why?

9. “15 years ago” , Ini Edo calls her boyfriend with a Blackberry Bold 5. How possible?

10. When poor people come to Lagos to struggle, they always make it. How true is this?

11. Isn’t it funny for Segun Arinze to act as Ramsey Noah’s dad?

12. Isn’t it interesting for a blind woman to say “I’m happy to see you, my son”?

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honestly i don't like nollywood, too much rubbish are being produce

You said Nollywood,and not Hollywood,why can't you use billion Naira,instead of Dollars. This is beginning of inferiority complex..

With good working environment,why can't we,so many things are working against Nollywood,which the biggest is piracy.

Nobody wants to invest in a place,which the profit would be siphoned by another person..piracy is at the bearest minimum in most advanced nation.

Once again,we can.

But going by th recent GDP Rebasing ,its aready a billion dollar industry :

This is the only thread on front page I've seen this year without any "curse comment or " its non of my biz comment" and I must say that moving mature threads to front page can help reduce those scenarios!

may be

matter of time sha

DaVinChiSam: It will. But first before it attracts outsiders the insiders also have to play their parts. Mayhaps if we all join in to support, promote, advertise it to the outside world then hopefully we can achieve this feat. What am I talking about? Buy original films, watch nigerian films at the cinema etc. Thanks

I agree, but Nollywood must first stop defrauding those who patronize them. The virus of fraud will not allow them to go far unless they get rid of it. The idea of packaging a one-hour story into six or eight parts is soooo very annoying. What about the endless adverts that often take up half of the film? Nollywood needs urgent rebranding. Anyhow, i am proud of their accomplishments so far.