Its no news again that Kemi Adebita's film "The Wedding Party" is the Nollywood film that is presently topping the charts and making rave in the cinemas at the moment. Such is evident in the fact that my two last post before this has been solely about the movie making this it's third straight single post.

In this post we will be analyzing the reason as to why Kemi Adebita The Wedding Party was able to over throw Robert O. Peters A Trip to Jamaica (spoiler; or not so much of a spoiler again: The Wedding Party has grossed over 200 million Naira in just 16 days). First get the facts straight, no other genre of movie besides comedy will be able to perform well ( in terms of reaching and surpassing the 100 million mark) in the present Nigeria situation.

Its understandable to an extent. with all the challenges Nigeria is faced with at the moment, its understandable why an average Nigerian person will prefer to pay to watch a comedy flick that will relive him of the burden of the Nation for a few hours than pay for a movie just for the sake of its all round awesomeness. (evident in Kunle Afolayan's CEO movie that premiered just months within the same time The Wedding Party and A Trip to Jamaica did).

Ay's movie have been holding up to the no 1 spot for two years now, performing the trick with two movies back to back until The Wedding Party came calling. Now this two block busters are both in the comedy genre, so what did The Wedding Party do right?

It's a simple trick that Don Omope and Ijeoma Agukoronye knows that Ay Makun refused to apply in his movie. You see when a Nigerian........

http://abspad..com/2017/01/fall-of-mighty-why-trip-to-jamaica.html

Shalombrain:
Its no news again that Kemi Adebita's film "The Wedding Party" is the Nollywood film that is presently topping the charts and making rave in the cinemas at the moment. Such is evident in the fact that my two last post before this has been solely about the movie making this it's third straight single post.

It's a simple trick that Don Omope and Ijeoma Agukoronye knows that Ay Makun refused to apply in his movie. You see when a Nigerian........

http://abspad..com/2017/01/fall-of-mighty-why-trip-to-jamaica.html

I read the blog and I must say you are right. It's a strategy that works in Nigeria.
It's rather sad that it's only in Nollywood we need to have star-studded movies to make a hit in the cinema as against having 2 top billed actors, but again, hey, this is Naija. I just still can't phantom a trip to Jamaica sitting in some Amvca award categories... smh for both of them.

Ralfoosha:


I read the blog and I must say you are right. It's a strategy that works in Nigeria.
It's rather sad that it's only in Nollywood we need to have star-studded movies to make a hit in the cinema as against having 2 top billed actors, but again, hey, this is Naija. I just still can't phantom a trip to Jamaica sitting in some Amvca award categories... smh for both of them.

the issue is that AMVCA is based on the intrest of the people, what the audience buys into. so until Nigerians start showing interest in others genres of movies we might be stuck with this mediocrity for some while.