Check out this super-glossy preview trailer for a new Nollywood film (the film that “all of Nollywood is talking about,” according to the team behind it), which its website says received a 10-city theatrical run in the Us last month, with screenings in cities in Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and other states; and will expand to a 25-city limited theatrical release beginning this summer!
I could be wrong about this, but it’s not often that I hear of a Nollywood film traveling in this fashion, Stateside; so this film may be making history here. I know it’s certainly not the first time a Nollywood movie has played in a North American theater, but I don’t think there has been any that has traveled this widely.
There was Kunle Afolayan’s The Figurine, last year, which, I recall was talked about in a similar way; i.e.
I could be wrong about this, but it’s not often that I hear of a Nollywood film traveling in this fashion, Stateside; so this film may be making history here. I know it’s certainly not the first time a Nollywood movie has played in a North American theater, but I don’t think there has been any that has traveled this widely.
There was Kunle Afolayan’s The Figurine, last year, which, I recall was talked about in a similar way; i.e.
- 3/25/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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