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Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Putinofrussia: 9:03pm On Feb 03
fyneboi79:
This shows why eastern states thrive in entrepreneurship....no time for paid entertainment.
SW still has the highest SMEs,sir.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by ojuu4u(m): 9:10pm On Feb 03
DeLaRue:
The surprising ones are Osun, and Ondo.

I didn't even know they had cinemas in those states.

I am sorry o, my people from Osun and Ondo. Respect.

People in the South West have a long history of going to the cinema that dates back to the 1970s. It is possible other regions don't have it as much.
So, no ShopRite or Ojaja park among others in Ondo and Osun Abi? I guess you don't even know what they call cinema?
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Alphanancy: 9:10pm On Feb 03
They watch at home.
SlavaUkraini:
No Cinema or dem nor dey watch movies for South East ?
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by LeopardX: 9:14pm On Feb 03
Goo0dHardDick:
All these people shouting no SE should get sense!

The average Igbo man would rather be in his shop than to waste his time at the theater
Time spent going to the theatre is not a waste.
Just saying.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Lanre1st(m): 9:15pm On Feb 03
McLizbae:
No north no SE. What's happening in those regions?
Unrest, insecurity, bandit, terrorism that what they have in common
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by adicius: 9:16pm On Feb 03
Please please do the one for beer parlours. I want to see something........




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Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by AlphaTaikun:
LegendHero:
LAGOS GENERATED 51% OF NIGERIA'S BOX OFFICE REVENUE IN 2025

Box Office Revenue [Number of Cinemas]:
1 🟣Lagos — ₦7.94 billion [41]
2 🟠Abuja — ₦1.15 billion [5]
3 🟤Rivers — ₦1.04 billion [8]
4 🟤Edo — ₦975.23 million [8]
5 🟣Oyo — ₦869.14 million [11]
6 🟤Delta — ₦589.81 million [7]
7 🟣Ogun — ₦483.41 million [12]
8 🟣Osun — ₦331.49 million [3]
9 🟣Ondo — ₦281.52 million [2]
10 🟠Kwara — ₦183.46 million [2]

🟠NC 🟤SS 🟣SW

Total Box Office Revenue (Nigeria cinemas) — ₦15.64 billion

Lagos alone generated ₦7.94 billion — 50.8% of the national total.

The combined revenue of the next 9 top states (Abuja, Rivers, Edo, Oyo, Delta, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Kwara) is approximately ₦5.90 billion.

Lagos out-earned the next nine contenders combined by over ₦2 billion. If Lagos cinemas were removed, half the industry's revenue would disappear.

Source
https://x.com/statisense/status/2018738757843763672?s=46

The figures of movie goers (or cinema attendances) are indeed a representation of the spread of modern cinemas with multiplex facilities.

I'm aware from a YouTube video I saw a couple of days back that the Ooni of Ife recently launched a luxury hotel with modern cinema facilities for the public in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

There were many cinemas in Nigeria right from the 1930s and rapidly grew in the 1940s to the 1950s due to the investments by a wealthy Syrian businessman in Lagos, Warri, PH, etc, and even the heavyweight boxing star, Anthony Joshua's great grand father built a cinema in their hometown of Sagamu several decades ago before independence.


It's impressive that the rebirth of the cinema-attendance culture kicked off again from the late 2000s after the home video industry (and the ability to purchase Betamax and VHS video players) from the late 1980s, [The FIRST EVER home videos were produced from 1988 by the Yoruba movie sector of the Nigerian movie industry] began to cause a rapid decline in cinema attendances. That's one of the best way to boost the sales of Nigerian movies like the Indians do in their own movie industry headquartered in Mumbai.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by uche393: 9:19pm On Feb 03
We dey wait when betting go bring their own stat too, make we check something
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by vikings1: 9:22pm On Feb 03
Wasky101:
Same Edo people wey dey call house haus.
Abeg wetin dem dey watch
After the states that was once capital city of Nigeria- Lagos, Abuja and oil factor of Rivers, the next state is EDO

Pay Ur respect to Edo money
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Advancedman(m): 9:25pm On Feb 03
[quote author=LegendHero post=138352616]LAGOS GENERATED 51% OF NIGERIA'S BOX OFFICE REVENUE IN 2025

Box Office Revenue [Number of Cinemas]:
1 🟣Lagos — ₦7.94 billion [41]
2 🟠Abuja — ₦1.15 billion [5]
3 🟤Rivers — ₦1.04 billion [8]
4 🟤Edo — ₦975.23 million [8]
5 🟣Oyo — ₦869.14 million [11]
6 🟤Delta — ₦589.81 million [7]
7 🟣Ogun — ₦483.41 million [12]
8 🟣Osun — ₦331.49 million [3]
9 🟣Ondo — ₦281.52 million [2]
10 🟠Kwara — ₦183.46 million [2]

🟠NC 🟤SS 🟣SW

Delta is supposed to follow PH
Where is Akwa ibom?
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by HisaacPlus: 9:29pm On Feb 03
SlavaUkraini:
No Cinema or dem nor dey watch movies for South East ?
Dem they watch [Sit-at] Home Videos!
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Tflex01: 9:40pm On Feb 03
OVB123:
I don't really understand, why is it that in every economy indexes, Edo state is always at the top? Seeing the state in forth position surpassing the likes of Delta and Enugu state makes me to wonder.
Because Edo state is closer to the South West. Edo and Kwara

You may decide to argue but it is what it is.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Abagworo(m): 9:58pm On Feb 03
There is indeed no money in cinema industry.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by McLizbae: 10:02pm On Feb 03
You know that Abj and ilorin, ain't really north, when we leave geopolitical settings and start talking about people and cultures.
AAADE:
Take a look at Abuja and Kwara
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by uvie66: 10:10pm On Feb 03
jamesversion:
Fake statistics. Assumptions go wound una one day. undecided
... how is it fake, as if we need statistics to tell us the obvious, was it going to be south east where IPOB and sit at home is rife or NE and NW where poverty, illiteracy, Banditry have decimated the populace that they have become refugees in their own Land. And it can never be the middle belt where the Muslims are at a loggerhead with the minority Christians.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by markjam05: 10:13pm On Feb 03
OVB123:
I don't really understand, why is it that in every economy indexes, Edo state is always at the top? Seeing the state in forth position surpassing the likes of Delta and Enugu state makes me to wonder.
Edo is a foremost state. The citizens of that state are aware, they follow trend and they are exposed
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by madridguy(m): 10:24pm On Feb 03
Na to pirate people's work dem sabi

twilliamx:
They still no dey contribute for movie income
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by maivd: 10:48pm On Feb 03
jamesversion:
Fake statistics. Assumptions go wound una one day. undecided
Haha okoro has started convulsing.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by wellmax(m): 11:18pm On Feb 03
SlavaUkraini:
No Cinema or dem nor dey watch movies for South East ?
They will rather do piracy.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Believeintruth: 11:44pm On Feb 03
PDPdestroyer:
Most of the viewers in this top 10 are Ibos. The locals don’t have money for movies.
The reason why there’s no SE state in the top 10 is because of the port in Lagos, if you noticed, all the states in the top 10 have ports……blah blah blah grin

~ Obidients trying hard to explain with a badly bruised ego
Just everything be politics to you? In south east you will find it hard to sell.a cinema there because naturally the wouldn't prefer to go to the movies. Haba grow up for once.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Believeintruth: 11:45pm On Feb 03
wellmax:
They will rather do piracy.
There are Yoruba guys who pirate movies in Idumota so slow down there.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Believeintruth: 11:46pm On Feb 03
uvie66:
... how is it fake, as if we need statistics to tell us the obvious, was it going to be south east where IPOB and sit at home is rife or NE and NW where poverty, illiteracy, Banditry have decimated the populace that they have become refugees in their own Land. And it can never be the middle belt where the Muslims are at a loggerhead with the minority Christians.
But when the statistics showed that SW and SS had higher cases of kidnappings and killings that SE you disputed those figures ooooo
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Believeintruth: 11:46pm On Feb 03
Putinofrussia:
SW still has the highest SMEs,sir.
What is the ethnic composition of the SME owners in SW?
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Believeintruth: 11:48pm On Feb 03
SmartPolician:
I love credible data... one can do so much with it. BTW, this data is from FilmOne; NBC should be the credible source of such information.
Ohhhhh you now love credible data I remember when the same statisense released data that showed SW and SS had higher rates of killings and kidnappings than SE you disputed it oooo
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by Judolisco(m): 11:54pm On Feb 03
Julius1995:
That is what they call economic capital all over the world. Or has the meaning changed? The joke is actually of place like Kano (with over 15 million population or even 20 m), Kaduna and the likes.
kano is still successful, they'll survive without oil.. Have you been to kano before?
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by IbnB: 12:16am On Feb 04
If you bother crunching the numbers you'll realize they aren't real

Their so-called movie industry is just a money-laundering scheme
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by dragunov: 1:05am On Feb 04
jamesversion:
Fake statistics. Assumptions go wound una one day. undecided
It will be fake to you because no state in the SE was mentioned. Na by force to always massage una egos? Why are you people always resistant to facts and evidence?
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by dragunov: 1:10am On Feb 04
SlavaUkraini:
No Cinema or dem nor dey watch movies for South East ?
Make dem kidnap dem or kpai dem? Moreso, dem get cinema hall for SE?
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by dragunov: 1:12am On Feb 04
Believeintruth:
There are Yoruba guys who pirate movies in Idumota so slow down there.
Your moniker should be Believeinlies.
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by ceejay80s(m): 3:30am On Feb 04
jamesversion:
Fake statistics. Assumptions go wound una one day. undecided
No ind them , how many movies dem dey act for Lagos, most english and Igbo Nollywood movies are acted in delta state
Re: Top 10 States That Generates The Most Revenue From Movie Theaters by ceejay80s(m): 3:32am On Feb 04
Judolisco:
E be like say na lagos state dey sponsor Nigeria sef...no state comes close.... D state that neva sleeps, you'll see people going to work by 4am...haba
Oga go and lick condess and chop Kokoro on-top am and stop making noise
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