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New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 11:13pm On Jan 27, 2016
I have noticed a trend now in Nollywood... There is the normal Nollywood Asaba / Enugu movies that everyone knows and the The New Nollywood ( as they call it ). The New Nollywood is made up of movies that are shot that can be shown in the Cinemas in contrast to the Asaba movies that are mostly home videos.

With the advent of the New Cinema Nollywood, also comes new actors from that sector. The only person i seem to know his name there is O.C Ukeje... there are others i have to Google cos of this article
a) Okey Uzoeshi
b ) I.K Ogbonna
c) Kenneth Okolie
d) Alex Ekubo etc.... them plenty oo.
The New Nollywood Cinema movies have better locations, better script and technicals but most times their actors are mechanical, they can't really act.

These new Nollywood Cinema Actors are not known, though they act movies that are mostly shown at the Cinemas. I also noticed that their stardom seems to end on the Island ( Victoria Island - Lekki - Ikoyi - VGC axis ). They are known mostly to Ajebutter crowds... Mainland Lagos areas like Mushin, Okoko, Oshodi etc don't really know them. Also the rest of Nigeria.

Now coming to Asaba Movie Actors, thatz where the real money & fame are made. The movies might not be fantastic and all that, with crappy storylines, but that's the Nollywood that is known all over Africa and beyond. It has produced top movie stars like Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Ekeinde, Patience Ozokwor, Pete Edochie, Rita Dominic, Jim Iyke, Oge Okoye, Ramsey Noah, Mercy Johnson, Queen Nwokoye, Nonso Diobi, Mike Ezuruonye etc... These Asaba movie actors shoot like 3 movies at a go in one week, with their fee averaging N500,000 per movie depending on how hot the actor is. Although some of them dont shoot Asaba movies anymore e.g Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Ekeinde, Stephanie Okereke... but majority still act in those movies cos thats where the fame and money is....

You can imagine someone like Ini Edo still acts Asaba movies upon all her money. Ebube Nwagbo too.... Why i said this is because even the so-called posh Cinema Nollywood actors wishes to act in Asaba movies to get the nationwide fame and money too. The Cinema movies will only get you instagram hype & AMVCA Nomination but the real money is not there. How many times do they shoot Cinema movies in a year? Mostly once a month or once in 3 months. So for those actors, what will they be doing in between shoots, hunger go kill dem nah....

This is my observation. Rita Dominic's producer and partner for all her Cinema movies tweeted on Twitter that she will do everything within her power to feature Queen Nwokoye in one of her Cinema movies becos of her outstanding talent. But she has to queue up cos Queen is an extremely busy actress now, producers book her in advance. Thats the power of being Hot in the industry.

Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 6:36am On Jan 28, 2016
morning
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by nuelzy: 7:15am On Jan 28, 2016
nicely written....
and for what its worth...u re very correct
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 10:42am On Jan 28, 2016
nuelzy:
nicely written.... and for what its worth...u re very correct
thank you...
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 1:26pm On Jan 28, 2016
nuelzy:
nicely written.... and for what its worth...u re very correct
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 5:16pm On Jan 28, 2016
jiggaz:
morning
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by Adaezeagu(f): 6:36pm On Jan 28, 2016
Word!
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by cruzita(f): 6:43pm On Jan 28, 2016
#fact
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 7:02pm On Jan 28, 2016
Adaezeagu:
Word!
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 7:02pm On Jan 28, 2016
cruzita:
#fact
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 8:04pm On Jan 29, 2016
DNBCrew:
Thanks for the enlightenment OP.
I think market service is the drive. Each class to their own markets.
But it's sometimes funny when we seeing advanced and complicated stories like Joy, Scandal, The Revenant, How To Get A Way With Murder, Scandal, etc, Nollywood is busy churning out Royal Princess season1-15.
grin abi oo
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 5:18pm On Feb 07, 2016
noted
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 7:23am On Feb 13, 2016
morning
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by pretydiva(f): 8:25am On Feb 13, 2016
So true op. U head dey there. D likes of mercy Johnson, queen nwokoye et al r making big time money
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 11:52am On Feb 13, 2016
pretydiva:
So true op. U head dey there. D likes of mercy Johnson, queen nwokoye et al r making big time money
Yes
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 6:58am On Feb 20, 2016
Adaezeagu:
Word!
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 8:20am On Feb 28, 2016
nuelzy:
nicely written.... and for what its worth...u re very correct
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 5:41pm On Aug 02, 2016
evening
Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 5:13pm On Jun 11, 2017
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Re: New Cinema Nollywood Versus Asaba Nollywood by jiggaz(m): 7:29am On Jun 12, 2017
jiggaz:
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