Nollywood, with a rising annual ticket gross sales of N12 billion as of 2024, just isn’t slowing down anytime quickly.
Over the previous few years, Nigerian motion pictures have been pulling huge numbers on the field workplace, proving that native movies can stand shoulder to shoulder with international blockbusters.
From heartfelt dramas to hilarious comedies and action-packed tales, these movies replenish cinemas and break information each weekend.
Within the film world, the opening weekend is a giant deal; it’s the first actual check of how properly a movie will carry out in cinemas. It normally covers the primary three days of launch, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, when pleasure is highest, and followers rush to see the movie whereas it’s nonetheless recent.
A powerful opening weekend not solely brings in large ticket gross sales but additionally builds momentum by way of phrase of mouth and social media buzz, serving to a movie keep longer in cinemas and entice much more viewers.
Massive names like Funke Akindele, Toyin Abraham, and Kayode Kasum have been main this bandwagon with a couple of newcomers over the past 4 years coming to affix the practice.
This record of the High 10 Nollywood motion pictures with the highest-grossing opening weekends ever reveals simply how far the business has come and the way highly effective these first three cinema days may be.
Open weekend gross: N60.2 million
Launched on December 24, 2021, Christmas in Miami was produced by Ayo Makun (AY) as a part of his in style “AY’s Merry Males” vacation collection. The comedy was directed by Robert Peters and featured AY, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Osita Iheme, Francis Duru, and John Amos.
Shot throughout Nigeria and america, the movie follows a multicultural household comedy set round a world Christmas celebration in Miami.
With a gap weekend haul of N60,232,775, the movie reaffirmed AY’s place as one in every of Nollywood’s most commercially profitable producers, combining star energy, humor, and festive storytelling to draw massive audiences.







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