By Rita OkoyePascal Amanfo is an award-winning Nigerian filmmaker and actor currently based in Ghana. In this interview with Saturday Sun, he reflects on his 25-year journey in the film industry, ...

Nollywood has officially entered its YouTube streaming era, and the industry is better for it. Filmmakers are cashing in significantly as Nigerian cinema becomes more accessible to a global, diverse ...

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, ...

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 ...

As one of the greatest superheroes in comic book history, Spider-Man has gotten the movie treatment many times in the past half-century. A total of 23 movies featuring the web-slinging hero and ...

Whether you're in the mood for romance, drama, crime, or historical storytelling, Prime Video still offers some of Nollywood’s finest films. In a surprising turn of events, news broke a few months ago ...