Stephan Okereke's Through The Glass Grosses N10m @ The Box Office

Steph’s Through the Glass goes to Ghana, Kenya ….grosses N10m

Showtime PeopleOct 17, 2009


After it premiered three weeks ago with a bang in Nigeria, Stephanie Okereke’s award-winning movie, Through the Glass is surely enjoying acclamation across the world.
The movie has astounded all critics by grossing a N10m in the Nigerian  box office within the last three weeks of its release.



Caterina, John Fashanu and Stephanie Okereke


The management of Silverbird film distribution disclosing this figure last week, said Through the Glass released across the country’s cinemas on September 16, beats such blockbuster Hollywood films like ‘Public Enemies”, “G.I Joe”, “Hang Over” amongst other thrilling films also on release about the same time in Nigeria to come top on the chart.
“We want to announce to you that Through the Glass, a Next Page Productions film, produced and directed by Nollywood’s  A- rated star actress, Stephanie Okereke has astounded all critics by grossing a N10 million in the Nigerian Box Office.”
“The was released across Nigerian Cinemas on September 16th. At that time, there were such blockbuster Hollywood films like ‘Public Enemies”, “G.I.Joe”,
“Hangover…’also on release in Nigeria but amazingly, from day one, Through the Glass jumped to the top and remained in number one position for 2 weeks,”disclosed Silverbird management, adding that ‘We continue to encourage film makers and call on them to sit up and do what is good for the cinemas.”

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The multi-million movie, theatrically  distributed in Africa by Silverbird Film Distribution  is expected to premiere at the Silverbird Ghana Cinemas next month, before moving over to Silverbird Cinemas in Kenya.
Also, United International Pictures, a South African based film distribution company is said to have indicated interest in distributing the movie in South Africa. Meanwhile, Steph, while speaking on what inspired her to make the movie said, ‘ I have a desire to do it right, and I felt that was an opportunity for me to do just that and I did.”
Steph who is the only African featured in the movie added that, quality production, good storyline and acting are some of the attributes that stands her move out from others.”

whats the hype all about ? its less than $100k

This is a welcome development, but i still do not understand why she decided to use non-Africans, does that mean she has no faith in her roots?

Congrats to her, but I hope the movie does not suffer from Identity crisis. I will like to see the movie to note her concept, how she enmeshes Nigerian culture with western culture, her motives for using mostly foreign actresses, and the interplay between Nigerian actresses with the western actresses as well as Nollywood with Hollywood. I am curious. She is an awesome lady.

How come Aloy emeka's topic always makes d frontpage. Seun is biased.

Why u dey beef my Bros na?

Abeg leave Seun outta dis oooo!

the big question is - did she break even?

Stephanie Okereke is now as fat as my dog.

I hope she can keep this up.

So how much was the previous record by a Nigerian Movie?. Cos 10m is too chicken change to make headlines.

Exactly my point! _{N10m only?}

10 million naira is less than $100,000. Whats the hype? I will only applaud if it breaks the usa market

They say it's a multi-million movie. Multi-million what, naira or dollars, so we can know if she's making any profit with the N10m at the box office.


But why am I not surprised it made so much at the BO?? Considering how much Nigerians love their home videos (even Mnet had to create AfricanMagic to satisfy the needs of the home video fans ) I'd expect it to beat even the biggest Hollywood blockbuster if it was showing at the same times at the cinema.

All said and done, white cast or not, the girl has made a giant leap. But like it has been said, hope the Nigerian copy-cat syndrome doesn't raise its big head .


BTW, what's the movie about??

True Talk,

  she deserves more than that, But will she keep it up?

Hmmmmm *shakes head*