Nigerian comic and filmmaker, Basketmouth has accused Nollywood producers of mismanaging funds allotted by international streaming platforms, claiming that their actions have negatively impacted the standard of Nigerian movies.
Talking in a current interview on Come up TV, the entertainer alleged that many producers wasted substantial parts of the budgets supplied for film manufacturing, diverting the funds for private positive aspects.
In keeping with him, solely a small fraction of the funds is utilised for precise filmmaking.
“When the streaming platforms got here in, they gave cash to those producers, and I’ll inform you level clean, these producers would take the cash, $1.5 million or no matter they offer them, and use about 10% of that cash to make the film,” he mentioned.
Basketmouth additional claimed that streaming platforms, upon discovering these alleged malpractices, determined to pay actors immediately to make sure transparency.
Nevertheless, producers reportedly devised a method to proceed the fraudulent exercise by coercing actors into returning a part of their pay.
“Even to the purpose the place the streaming platforms stepped in and mentioned, ‘You understand what? We’re going to be paying the actors immediately,’ these guys would nonetheless go behind and inform the actors to pay half of that cash again to them. You possibly can confirm the knowledge wherever,” he added.
The filmmaker argued that the mismanagement of funds has considerably affected the standard of Nollywood movies, with some epic productions showing substandard.
“So, once you try this and count on your film to be 100%, it could possibly’t. It’s unattainable. However these guys? They’ll lower, purchase homes, purchase automobiles. And that’s why once you see our films, a few of our epic films seem like stage performs,” Basketmouth lamented.
