Funke Akindele’s blockbuster film, ‘Everyone Loves Jenifa ‘, has achieved an unprecedented milestone in Nollywood historical past.
With a historic N1.466 billion and counting on the Nigerian field workplace, it has formally turn into the highest-grossing Nollywood movie of all time, leaving the business and followers in awe.
The movie’s distribution firm, FilmOne, introduced the feat on their social media handles on Monday, revealing that its field workplace income surpassed ₦1 billion in two weeks.
“Everyone Loves Jenifa has formally hit a historic N1.466 billion and counting on the field workplace, making it the highest-grossing movie of all time! An enormous thanks to our unimaginable audiences in Nigeria and Ghana for making this dream a actuality! Your assist is the whole lot. On to even larger heights! Nonetheless displaying in cinemas close to you—expertise the magic on the massive display,” the publish learn.
Since 2020, Funke has dominated the Nigerian field workplace, along with her movies being the highest-grossing thus far.
In 2020, Funke’s Omo Ghetto: The Saga was the highest-grossing of the yr, with ₦636,129,120 realised on the cinemas. Because of the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria in 2021, Funke retained her 2020 title.
In 2021, Funke’s movie Battle on Buka Road generated ₦668,423,056 on the cinemas. By 2023, Funke took issues a notch larger; A Tribe Referred to as Judah turned her first film to cross the N1 billion mark, making ₦1,404,187,806 within the cinemas. By 2024, the proficient actress solidified her place as Nigeria’s field workplace queen.
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Prior to now, Nollywood’s highest-grossing movie was Ebonylife Movies’ 2016 film, which made ₦452,288,605. A yr later, the sequel made ₦433,197,377. In 2018, EbonyLife Movie replicated the success with ‘Chief Daddy’, incomes ₦387,540,749.
Everyone Loves Jenifa
‘Everyone Loves Jenifa’ is a spin-off of the 28-series Jenifa franchise. The brand new film explores recent challenges for its principal character, Jenifa.
Jenifa’s recognition is threatened when her new neighbour, Lobster, begins to outshine her charity work, inflicting her jealousy and inadequacy.
The film brings again beloved characters from her 2008 debut, evoking a way of nostalgia amongst long-time followers. It boasts a star-studded forged together with Endurance Ozukwor, Jide Kosoko, D’Banj, Falz, Nancy Isimie, Layiasabi, Damilo Oni, and Stan Nze.
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