Netflix has struck a multi-project partnership with South African filmmaker Mandlakayise (Mandla) Walter Dube and unveiled its latest film with Nigerian director Kunle Afolayan, as the streamer trumpeted its investment in Africa today in Johannesburg.
Under terms of the pact, Dube — who directed Netflix’s first commissioned African film Silverton Siege — will direct a variety of Netflix projects, details of which haven’t yet been received.
This marks Netflix’s third creative partnership with African creatives, coming after deals with Mo Abudu and her Ebonylife Studios and director Afolayan.
The pact was unveiled at Netflix’s See What’s Next Africa 2022/23 content showcase today, which brought together talent, filmmakers and press from South Africa and Nigeria.
The event was designed to spotlight the streamer’s investment in African storytelling and also included glimpses of progress of various projects from emerging filmmakers working initiatives such as the Unesco & Netflix ‘African Folktales,...
Under terms of the pact, Dube — who directed Netflix’s first commissioned African film Silverton Siege — will direct a variety of Netflix projects, details of which haven’t yet been received.
This marks Netflix’s third creative partnership with African creatives, coming after deals with Mo Abudu and her Ebonylife Studios and director Afolayan.
The pact was unveiled at Netflix’s See What’s Next Africa 2022/23 content showcase today, which brought together talent, filmmakers and press from South Africa and Nigeria.
The event was designed to spotlight the streamer’s investment in African storytelling and also included glimpses of progress of various projects from emerging filmmakers working initiatives such as the Unesco & Netflix ‘African Folktales,...
- 8/2/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The criminal fringe meets sexy high-stakes espionage in this rough-and-ready Nollywood action sequel
Considering it had a budget hundreds of times smaller than Fast & Furious, this sequel to last year’s top Nollywood grosser, Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons, makes a reasonable stab at being a Nigerian version of the Hollywood action-film franchise. Said merry men are four Lagos playboys who are showing dangerous signs of shrugging off their roguish pasts and settling down, when Abuja politician Dame Maduka kidnaps one of their wives and blackmails them into jacking crucial evidence in her forthcoming graft trial.
You couldn’t call Merry Men 2 stunningly original, but director Moses Inwang and producer Ayo Makun (who had a hand in several top-end 2010 Nollywood films and also stars in this film) have studied the Fast & Furious handbook. Inhabiting that just-in-the-movies crossover between the criminal fringe and sexy high-stakes espionage, the film...
Considering it had a budget hundreds of times smaller than Fast & Furious, this sequel to last year’s top Nollywood grosser, Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons, makes a reasonable stab at being a Nigerian version of the Hollywood action-film franchise. Said merry men are four Lagos playboys who are showing dangerous signs of shrugging off their roguish pasts and settling down, when Abuja politician Dame Maduka kidnaps one of their wives and blackmails them into jacking crucial evidence in her forthcoming graft trial.
You couldn’t call Merry Men 2 stunningly original, but director Moses Inwang and producer Ayo Makun (who had a hand in several top-end 2010 Nollywood films and also stars in this film) have studied the Fast & Furious handbook. Inhabiting that just-in-the-movies crossover between the criminal fringe and sexy high-stakes espionage, the film...
- 12/20/2019
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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