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Is the movie out or the trailer available on the net?

Basildon1:
Erm,i believe he said 7 movies a month

He did and I say it's false, until it's verified. If we're to go by the Unesco report . . . 
2,400 [movies per year] ÷ 12 [months in a year]=200 [ movies a month]. Note that other sources confirm this.
From where did Emeka get 7 movies per month?

Your wish is ma command.

[quote author=baby-boy link=topic=557622.msg7221900#msg7221900 date=1290781378]The Indians didnt complain when Ben Kingsley played the role of Ghandi nor Did the Ugandian's when Forest Whittiker played Idi Amin, but he has a point regarding the politics behind the scene,

But the best part of his arguement were Nollywood going from producing 100+ movies a month to 7 movies a month, About time they cut back on the crap been churned out[/quote]That's not even credible until there's a source from which the claim can be verified.
According to Wiki and some other sites, the industry still produces 200 films.  . . Back in 2007, it used to be 100+.
According to a Unesco report last year, Nollywood makes about 2,400 films per year, putting it ahead of the US, but behind India.
Let's do a rough calculation . . .  2,400÷12=200
Where Emeka got the ''production of 7 movies a year'' idea is a wonder to me.

ifyalways:
. . .and the almighty Nl pig oinked.
@Missy,I so agree with u.As per the Hollywood stuff,i wont be suprised it it turns out to be a waka-pass role rofl

Lol! Come to think of it . . . It's a possibility. Let's just wait and see.

Nah. Just asking you to move into the bedroom.

ifyalways:
Missy B,dont let the spirit of Mr cork possess u.Let us reply now.lol
Gbam!!!!!
I wud go look for his 'hollywood' movie sha.

Lol! This is the effect of being married to Mr Cork - I post, I reply myself.

Out of mere curiosity, not  genuine interest, I'D like to see the 'Hollywood' movie too.
Honestly, Emeka Ike isn't a good actor. We/I overrrated him back then because of dearth of actors in his age bracket, that could match him.
Today, we have myriad of them, and I think Emeka can glue his butt to the couch while he learns from Van Vicker, Majid, Desmond, Jim, Uche Edochie etc.

Emeka is bitter because his career is dead. 

It's been quite a while I saw u feature in a new movie,

No body is making any movie in Nigeria at the moment and that's why you have not seen me featured in any lately

Too many good actors have taken your place, sweetheart. I understand it hurts, but it's a good thing. Nollywood may not be perfect at the moment but I find delight in the fact that it is not stagnating.
Goodbye to maladroit actors.

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Who doesn't know Emeka Ike? The Nollywood lover boy/badboy is one of the stars you must have missed on your TV screen for quite a while due to the alleged lull in the industry. Morakinyo Olugbiji had a chat with the father of three in Lagos on Sallah Day.

It's been quite a while I saw u feature in a new movie,

No body is making any movie in Nigeria at the moment and that's why you have not seen me featured in any lately. I'm trying to re-strategize. Part's of the problem has to do with the problem in AGN and I'm hoping that once the court delivers its judgment, I will take back my position in AGN as President. Then, we will restructure everything in order to restore the industry back to its rightful place.

So you are still in the AGN struggle?

Yes, the struggle is not over until it's over. I and my team are a law abiding people and for us the only way to go about issues that bother around legality and illegality is to go to court. any other measure you take is illegal and criminal and not acceptable. And as we speak now, there is Status Quo the court has ordered that nobody should do business with anybody parading himself as AGN's president. So, having anything to do with anyone claiming to be the president of AGN is doing so at his or her own risk pending when the court will determine the right president of AGN.

What i hear every now and then is that the movie industry is undergoing a lull, what's your opinion?

One can not underestimate that fact. Nollywood is not undergoing a lull as a matter of fact, the industry is dead right now. if you know how much Nollywood has been trampled upon you will know that there is no movie made right now that is structured on the Nollywood you and i use to know. What you see going on right now are perhaps the small boys around the industry in those days making some of the few movies you have around now. They love the art and since they have not been given any chance decide to call their friends together to do some low budget films. They try to feature a couple of known faces. They are just trying to sustain the business that has been crippled, bastardized, trampled upon and hijacked.

You have been known to always play a bad boy or lover boy role, but i think you are getting more matured even though the look is still there, will your roles in movie change now should a script come your way?

Well like you said, it's true that I'm looking more matured. I will also want you to know that I have now broken into Hollywood too. Talking about the roles I use to play, if i still look the role why then can't I play the role? I just came back from one of the sets of a movie which i did in Hollywood with Hakeem Kazeem who starred in Hotel Rwanda, Jimmy Lewis of PHAT Girls and a host of other top Hollywood personalities. It's titled "Feat of Destiny." It also featured Kera O'Brian of Law and Order. She was my girlfriend and manager in the movie.

You said that Nollywood is dead; don't you think that is too much of a conclusion?

It is dead! By every instrument of measurement Nollywood is dead. If you are an industry that produced a hundred movies monthly in the past and now you don't make seven movies in a month then you have a problem; that's 7/100. That's a failure. Forget the fact that a few like Desmond Elliot, Uche Jumbo, Monalisa Chinda, Stephanie Okereke, Emem Isong and a few others are trying to release movies. Theirs is just a solo struggle of some artistes who love what they do. You see, those are not even producers; they are the talents. So at the end of the day, the real producers themselves are not making movies any more. Where are the likes of Chico Ejiro, Zeb Ejiro, Fred Amata, Paul Obasele, Jetta Amata, Teco Benson, Fidelis Duker and others? I heard the other day where Chico Ejiro was saying 'people are now going to the Cinemas and the industry is churning out good films', but ask him, which movie has he taken to Cinema in 10 years? They said Paul Obasele is doing Eko Festival or whatever, what film has he produced in the last ten years? These people are no longer making any input to the industry and that's negatively affecting the industry, yet they are the producers. The industry is being manipulated by a few who know how the industry works and have decided to joined forces to go to the government in the name of representing Nollywood without even letting others know about their acts. That's criminal. So by now you should know that Nollywood has stopped making movies in Lagos . That's basically why we've not heard Idumota or Ebinpejo Lane on your TV in a long time. So that's how long it was for Lagos . Equally, Onitsha ; Iweka Road , Pound Road and others. That's how long it was for that area. The only few people in business now are the Yoruba film makers. And they need to really watch it before they start to face the same problem the Igbo movie makers are facing. Also government was part of the killing. When the existing Nigerian Film Censorship Board Chairman rose up one day and say that if you are a distributor of movies, stop distributing until you pay me 5million Naira. That was a red alert. He scared them away. Now, what you have now are people watching DSTV Africa Magic yet everyone was watching, no body talked. The movie industry Emeka Mba met in its buoyancy; he came in as the DG of film censorship board and killed it. Do you know that Emeka Mba was the content provider for Africa Magic?

So I guess it's no longer accurate to say Nollywood is the second largest producers of movies as UNESCO positioned it?

We are number two because at the time UNESCO gave us that recognition and that was exactly the time the industry was about going down. You know, we started dying when Africa Magic entered the business. My colleagues were not in the know of what was going on; they kept wearing dark shades and blowing big grammars on the pages of newspapers.' Africa Magic is wonderful, it's this, it's that, blah, blah, blah.' but today, Africa Magic has taken their product to their end users. Do you get the logic? The man that buys the 'Akara' (bean cake) doesn't come to buy from you again, he goes to somebody else to buy the Akara which you produce yet you don't get the money. That's how the death of Nollywood started. Now, Africa Magic's networking has gone round the whole of Africa and beyond. And because the film censors board helmsman is getting returns from Africa Magic, there is no way the exploitation can stop. How can HiTV pay royalty when Emeka Mba is perhaps a friend of HiTV? Almost everybody handling the regulation of the Nigerian film industry is there to play politics and embezzled as much as they can.

Now the image of the country which we've managed all these years has been rubbished, misconstrued, maligned, disgraced and tarnished. What do i mean by that? Now, they make movies on Africa Magic where you have South-Africans answering Nigeria names and acting the roles. And the sad thing about it is that they are treating Nigeria 's core Niger Delta Issues. You hear them using their South-Africa accent to say that Nigerian leaders are corrupt. And I'm asking, what's the DG of the Nigerian censorship board doing? There is a movie on MNET called Jacob's,  Trouble or what do they call it where they discussed the Niger Delta issues and I'm wondering who vetted that script. What's the rebranding Nigerian message in that script? An Emeka Ike or any other major Nigerian actor will avoid rubbish the image laundering effort of the government but the country is the case in this movies i just mentioned. Dora Akunyili or Goodluck Jonathan cannot see everything, but he has placed somebody there who has refused to do is job. And the likes of us are not involved in the politics going on so there is little or nothing we can do. We don't even get royalties but go to Ghana, there people are being paid their royalties.

Talking about the 200million dollars promise from Jonathan, what do you think?

Talking about that promise being relistic, i don't want to argue it now. I want to believe that the president did what he did in good faith. In every country of the world there is money set aside for the entertainment industry. Now when you have a movie project that we further contribute to the development of the country, the government we assist you with part of the budget already set aside. They do that in South-Africa. if the same thing is what is going to happen , beautiful! but my only grouse about it is that i don't know if President Goodluck Jonathan gave that money to his brother Ben Bruce because he kept saying 'my brother Ben Bruce.' Also my question is who and who represented Nollywood that day? Even if there is a crisis in Nollywood letters should be sent to some core Nollywood stakeholders so we will know who is collecting the money on behalf of the industry


Source : http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/9815/24/nollywood-is-dead-emeka-ike.html

Do you also intend to inform her parents about your relationship with her elder sister?
Her = Your fiancée

Hahahaha! I laugh in French!

When you 2 are done, take yourselves outta the kitchen. I have a guest.

but dont worry, the god fearing brotha that you are looking for is out there somewhere because it definitely aint me.

My quote of the day. Rotfl!!!
See honesty at its best.

It is prick.

amdman:
My marriage is just over a month old, and I found my wife a virgin on the wedding night, and yes she was 31! In the morning, I told my parents and hers, and somehow my siblings got to hear. Of course some said thats ol school, but if you look close enough, you will see that look of wonderment in their eyes like WOW!

And I can tell you that it has done a lot of good:

1.  Proved to everyone that we stuck to our guns becuase as christians we were sticklers for doing the right thing (we dated for 11 years)

2.  My mum loved her before cos she knew she was great for me, but now she has practically adopted my wife as her daughter.

3.  Her mum was mightily proud of her being the last of her four daughters to get married (she raised all of them alone)

and lots more.

How nice!
Dated for 11 years and no shàgging? One can imagine how proud the Lady's mother would be, say nothing of the Lady herself. Goes to show people still have
self-control. Worth emulating . . .Yeah, keep wishing, Missy.

snthesis:
y, did u miss me
_{[size=4pt]i missed my Missy [b]B[/b]reathtaking[/size]}
bad belle ppl
wassup cutiebaby

Lol!
How are you and where have you been?
Thought you feel ill again. Buzzed you on YIM sha but no response. You aiight? Missh you plenty.

Nice pictures! See Pat Atah. 

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Come on! This is NOT Rita. It's very obvious the first pic is different from the second. Dakore-1st picture.  . . .Rita- 2nd picture.

Rita looks good, now and before. No damages done to her skin/complexion. She was never charcoal dark anyway.

Laura202:
These "abroad"based wives sef,they just make us home based look so archaic. We also do our laundries here with machines o.In fact these machines are so cheap that any entry level bank staff can afford one and pay in three instalments, lol.

Lmao!

jayfoster:
You don't have to if you don't want to.  Some people do it but limit it to the parents of the bride and probably the parents of the groom to increase the respect for the bride as well as make the parents of the bride very proud of her.

Definitely, you have a right to your opinion on this issue and you don't need to repeat it, but you also do not have to force it down the throat of other people

I'm not trying to sound religious, but the fact is that there is a spiritual angle to sex.  Besides, marriage is honourable when ''the bed is undefiled''.  

It's an honour for a man to give his daughter out in marriage, it's double honours if she gets married without having a child/pregnancy out of wedlock, it's triple honours if she gets married as a virgin.  Amongst other things, it boosts the trust of her man and parents geometrically.  However, I'm not in anyway suggesting that getting married as a virgin is the only way to boost one's integrity.

Spot on!

My Dad would have loved to know. See the man promising Heaven and Earth if . . .

Hubby can tell our kids about it or buy mum a gift to appreciate her good work.

Jeez!

and to fink that there are many women out there looking a joy like this

shadrach77:
of course there can be pleasure in pain - e.g. if one is used to a particular mode of pain they get used to it and begin to derive some form of pleasure in it - for example, people who have lived alone for so long might not find a need to enjoy company of other people because they have become used to their loneliness

I wouldn't say this is entirely true.
If I pressed a smoldering cigarette[700-800 °C] to my, say, eye on monday, the pains I'd derive from that act would be same, if I tried it again on tuesday, wednesday,
thursday and so on [repeatedly]. I can only know how it feels having a smoldering cigarette make contact with my eye and possibly, get used to the pain, so that, enduring it becomes possible but, that doesn't mean I derive pleasure from it.
The derivation of pleasure from pain is not totally dependent on how long that pain has been around or how often one is subject to that pain.

Topic -
Yes! I can derive pleasure from pain and pain from pleasure- I can be the one receiving the pain and/or pleasure or the one inflicting pain. Take for example, Masochists and sadomasochists.

Emotional pain:  take for instance, an individual who loves to play the victim, always.
I just lost a friend, I certainly feel the hurt, but since I always love to play the victim, I enjoy the presence of the people around me showing pity and sending condolences in my crestfallen state. Indeed, I'm hurt but at the same time, I enjoy that people commiserate with me.

Pain and pleasure don't just happen . . .they are effects.
The cause can either produce pain or pleasure or pain and pleasure or neither.

The loss of my friend- cause
Effects: 1) sorrow 2) satisfaction [derived from having people condole me because of my loss]. Not a perfect example but it's what comes to mind at the mo.

Too many!
Start with White hunters or Behind Closed doors. Come back and thank me.

turboman:
if you cannot speak or understand "Pidgin English", then u r not a true Nigerian

If you call you dad "mate", u r not a true Nigerian

if you eat a slice of bread before leaving for work in the morning, then you are not confirmed naija breed, sorry Nigerian breed

. . . . . . .  more contributions needed

nuzo:
1. You must be used to suffering and smiling at the same time.

2. You must say "e no concern me" when illegality is being perpetuated on another man.

3. You must be loud and lousy, especially on the phone.

4. You must be a religious fanatic. . . . a Bible/Koran thumping prayer warrior/almajiri who believes any trash doled out by his pastor or Imam.

5. You must be a core ethnic bigot. You totally lose your nigerianness if you dont see anything bad in the next man from the other ethnic group.

6. You must blame road accidents, high way robbery and sicknesses on the devil.

7. You must leave every problem to god.

8. You must oppose anything that criticizes the ills of the society.

9. You must put ooh at the end of every sentence you make.

10. You must see fat/pot belied people as evidence of good living.

11. You must pay your girlfriend monthly allowance.

12. And to some extent, you must learn to see 419 as a pay back for the "evil" the white man has "perpetuated" on us.

Lol! Good and funny list!       

This is an insult to Gene. Bring that butt here for spanking, Ileke.

Neither! Not D'banj . . .Not Ribadu. Gene is too good for 'em. [Fight will start soon]

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=554633.msg7188395#msg7188395 date=1290358088]I personally dont see what the girl sees in Dbanj. . . . but seems like she has chosen her man. . .[/quote]Me neither. One can't be sure they are actually dating, though.

Remember [Yori yori remix] - Bracket.
I just can't get enough.

This is not unexpected but I just want to confront it again- Why is it such a difficult, if not impossible, task to state your opinion w/o forcing it on others or calling the other interlocutor that disgrees names? They are less insightful  because they disagree? You must think your big flat head is equal to intelligence.
OP's friends say they cannot wash their men's clothes, kini big deal? It's now left for the men to decide if they can settle down with such women or not. Funny enough, some men don't mind.
As for the issue of compromise . . . It goes both ways. Not only the woman should waive her ''Nevers'', the man ought to forgo his ''You Musts'' too.
You can't wash my clothes? I do not like the idea of giving them to the drycleaners but if that's what brings peace, it's okay. Sounds too simple to be possible? That's becasue ,you're just trying to be unnecessarily difficult and dramatic and, that happens to be your problem, not mine.
Some people do not like cooking, others don't like cleaning or doing the laundry  . . .It doesn't make them less domestic. If the parties can find a way to resolve it, cool. I also understand that many 'Nevers' will be flung aside when one settles down.

Topic
Personally, it's not a big deal putting the clothes into the washing machine. In a situation where we don't have one [the thought of this is funny], I don't have a problem doing the washing with my hands [his underwears, included] at all. I have watched my Mum cook, iron, wash for my dad with absolute gladness that you would think that's the only thing she was born to do. Being brought up by a woman like that and being a proper African lady, I have learnt to see it as something normal. In fact, experience has thought me that you'll gladly do the chores you hate most, if it pleases and is beneficial to the one you care about.

It's simple -  Some women wouldn't do it . . . others will. It's akin to some  men washing their ladies' panties while others would rather die first.
Fact is, some men don't really make noise about who does the laundry. There's no right and wrong on this one. Whatever your decision is, if it works for you, Amen.



Seriously, why do some of you feel the need to speak even when you do not have to?

Ranoscky:
So are you now sayin that, washin clothes is now the key factor of gettin married to the gurls?

Ranoscky:
Tell them my sista, lecture them very well, and let those that refuses to learn remain single and marry their parents.

Excellent description for explaining a contradiction.

Aaaaah!!!
Shimi and Pinafor . . . I haven't heard those words in years. Shimi . . . My ribs eh!