Bitcoins for #Nollywood I know majority of people reading the title of this article will be wondering what I am talking about. What has the hottest cryptocurrency got to do with #Nollywood, the fastest growing film industry in the world? A lot! At the moment 1 Bitcoin equals 4839841.80 Nigerian Naira. Let me give you more information to understand what I am saying.

A new Nigerian epic movie, “Amina” is currently the most ambitious film project in Nigeria since the emergence of Nollywood. A historical film on the legendary Queen Amina of Zazzau in northern Nigeria, directed by the award winning filmmaker, Izu Ojuwku whose last film “'76" was a historical drama about the bloody coup d'etat of February 13, 1976 in Africa's most populous country. "Amina" will certainly break new grounds for Nigerian filmmakers in the global film industry. This is not the first film on Queen Amina, but this is the best so far. There have been previous movies which some have uploaded on YouTube since 2014. You can also see Amina- The warrior queen or Zaria and Queen Amina Films Production/Jallawa Films Production . The brain behind this epic is Okey Ogunjiofor, "Paulo” of the first Nollywood blockbuster movie, "Living in Bondage" made in 1992. Emily Witt, the author of the new book, Nollywood: The Making of a Film E...

The film adaptation of, a historical biography of Efunsetan Aniwura by Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola was shot on celluloid by the popular Yoruba dramatist Ishola Ogunshola in 1981 after the stage plays by Ishola Ogunshola's I Sho Pepper travelling theatre group in Oyo state, Lagos state and other places in the south west of Nigeria. EFUNSETAN ANIWURA 1981, directed by Bankole Bello.was the only Nigerian film in the Official Selection for International Competition at the 1982 Festival of 3 Continents in France and later selected in 1986 special focus on Nigerian cinema at the same film festival.

Top #Nollywood filmmakers, multiple award winning Chika Anadu, Fiery Obasi and Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo are among the outstanding Africans in Africa and the Diaspora showing their movies on kweliTV 24/7. The hottest Nigerian movie on kweliTV is Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo's Bariga Sugar starring Tina Mba, Gregory Ojefua, Lucy Ameh, Halimat Olarewaju, Tunde Azeez and Blessing Samuel. One thing, kweliTV has more to offer are the best award winning dramas, romantic comedies and documentary films that have won top prizes at international film festivals. 60 percent of kweliTV’s revenue goes to filmmakers, who get paid quarterly. "There are a lot of really great filmmakers out there globally,” said KweliTV founder, DeShuna Spencer. “For us, we’re offering an avenue for filmmakers of color to make money off of their work and be celebrated for the work they do.” Kweli means TRUTH in Swahili. WE'RE DOPE We handpick our content with you in mind. 98% of our films have...

"Samson", New Action-Packed Biblical Epic in Theaters from Feb. 16 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Announcing the official trailer for the highly anticipated biblical epic SAMSON. From Pure Flix, the world's leading independent faith-and-family studio, SAMSON is the thrilling retelling of a champion's calling, betrayal and redemption.

Watch @Oprah 's full Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech at the 75th #GoldenGlobes . #TIMESUP pic.twitter.com/4MDm2aRlEi — O The Oprah Magazine (@O_Magazine) January 8, 2018 Sunday, January 7 • 5:00 PM GMT-8 (Mon, 8 Jan • 2:00 AM WAT) Location:The Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California, United States Host:Seth Meyers Famous entertainment diva, Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman to win the Cecil B. DeMille Award presented at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for incredible contributions to the entertainment industry. The Acceptance Speech of Oprah Winfrey: "Thank you, Reese. In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother's house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history:" The winner is Sidney Poitier." Up to the stage came the most elegant man ...

The "Netflix of Africa", iROKOtv's annual revenues are estimated at over US$4,200,000. That is more than the annual revenues #Nollywood movies make from the cinemas. For an unbelievable flat fee of $5, subscribers have access to any movie of their choice for a whole month! Crazy! It’s no wonder why 500,000 subscribers (and counting) jumped on the offer. It’s great value for money and you can watch all the movies you want, when you want. To sum this up, at the current size of the subscriber base, Iroko TV should be making an average of $2 million every month from subscriptions alone. Money maker #1 – Advertisements The Iroko TV website is visited up to 10 million times every month by more than 500,000 unique visitors from over 100 countries. Huge does not begin to define how huge this traffic is in website terms! Iroko TV – How this internet business makes millions by bringing African movies to the world - Smallstarter Africa Our estimates put IrokoTV’s monthly r...