On a recent evening at the AMC Empire 25 in New York, an unusual cinematic exchange unfolded. The audience gathered not simply to watch a film, but to encounter a world many of them had never seen on ...

This film shocked Nigerians and pushed Nollywood's storytelling into a bold new territory.In 2001, while Nigeria was celebrating Agbani Darego's historic Miss World victory and the GSM revolution was ...

The Weekend’, the critically acclaimed feature film by Trino Motion Pictures is now streaming on HBO Max, marking a historic ...

These Nollywood movies bring love to life in realistic and relatable ways. From second chances to complicated triangles, love is never perfect, but always real. Love has been the source of ceaseless ...

This story is featured in the March/April 2025 issue of ESSENCE. In 2017, sisters Tochi and Ebele ­Anueyiagu shared a single image on their new Instagram account: a still of Nigerian film and beauty ...

Iconic Nollywood movies, Wedding Party, '76, Wives on Strike, and more are turning 10 in 2026. Here’s why they are still worth watching today. It was also the year Netflix officially became available ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

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Solomon Waliaula received funding from the International European Research Council as a contributor to the book Contemporary African Screen Worlds: Decolonizing Film and Screen Studies (2019-2025).

We’re now a quarter of century into the 21st century, and to say that the movies are in a different place now than they were 25 years ago would be putting it mildly. Technological innovations, ...

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Earlier this month, colorfully dressed film stars and gray-suited asset managers gathered on the top floor of a Chinese car showroom in Lagos to discuss how to make money on movies. Nollywood, as ...