Funke Akindele’s ‘Behind the Scenes’ grosses N1.1 billion in 17 days 

Funke Akindele has as soon as once more rewritten the Nollywood playbook.

Her newest function, Behind the Scenes, has surged previous N1.1 billion on the West African field workplace simply 17 days after launch, turning into the quickest movie within the area’s historical past to cross the billion-naira mark.

The milestone extends a string of record-breaking feats for Akindele, who now stands as the one filmmaker to surpass N1 billion three separate occasions, and the primary to ship three consecutive N1 billion+ hits inside a single calendar 12 months.

The undertaking additionally logged the best single-day theatrical gross on Boxing Day with N129.5 million.

FilmOne Leisure, the movie’s distributor, confirmed the figures and celebrated the second throughout social platforms, calling the turnout “one other historical past made,” whereas thanking audiences for “exhibiting up, filling cinemas, and carrying this story with love.” 

The film manufacturing particulars  

Directed by Akindele and Tunde Olaoye, the drama encompasses a sprawling ensemble solid together with Scarlet Gomez, Iyabo Ojo, Future Etiko, Tobi Bakre, Ibrahim Chatta, Ini Dima-Okojie, Uzor Arukwe, Uche Montana and Victoria Adeleye. Clocking in at 2 hours and 24 minutes, the movie is rated 12A and follows Aderonke “Ronky-Fella” Faniran, a profitable real-estate entrepreneur whose relentless generosity forces a reckoning with private boundaries, self-worth, and the bounds of duty.

Akindele had earlier disclosed in a video that the manufacturing finances exceeded N1 billion, highlighting the size of funding concerned. Experiences observe that rising manufacturing prices have elevated stress on filmmakers to ship robust theatrical performances, significantly as inflation and shopper spending constraints proceed to have an effect on cinema attendance.

Following the movie’s nationwide launch, Akindele appealed to audiences to chorus from recording or sharing clips from the film whereas in cinemas.

What it is best to know 

The win follows a outstanding opening week, throughout which the movie hauled in over N500 million, the strongest opening body for any Nollywood title this 12 months, propelled partially by superior screenings on December 10 and 11 forward of its nationwide debut on December 12.

That includes an ensemble led by Scarlet Gomez, Iyabo Ojo, Future Etiko, Tobi Bakre, and Uche Montana, the movie continues Akindele’s streak of economic dominance following A Tribe Referred to as Judah and All people Loves Jenifa, each of which had been billion-naira earners.

The most recent success positions Behind the Scenes as 2025’s highest-grossing launch to this point and additional solidifies Akindele’s maintain as Nollywood’s top-grossing producer of all time.