Nollywood reached a exceptional milestone in 2024, with the highest 10 highest-grossing movies collectively incomes a staggering N3.6 billion on the field workplace.
This marked a big soar from the N1.94 billion recorded in 2023, reflecting a powerful 85.5% enhance. Even with the exclusion of Funmilayo Ransom Kuti, which contributed N156.6 million, the entire may have reached N3.7 billion, displaying the unimaginable development of the Nigerian movie business.
This success could be attributed to a number of components, together with a mean ticket worth of N5000, stronger cinema admissions, and extra movies crossing the N100 million benchmark. Nonetheless, the true driving power behind this development lies within the actors and actresses who’ve change into the faces of those movies.
Whether or not established stars or rising skills, these performers have introduced their characters to life with ability and fervour, fascinating audiences and propelling their movies to field workplace triumph. Right here, we spotlight the lead actors and actresses behind 2024’s highest-grossing Nollywood movies.
Kehinde Bankole, a celebrated Nollywood actress, continues to make her mark within the business with a powerful physique of labor. In 2024, she earned widespread popularity of her portrayal of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti in Bolanle Austen-Peters’ biopic, which grossed N156.6 million in Nigerian cinemas earlier than streaming on Prime Video.
She bagged the Finest Lead Actress award on the Africa Magic Viewers Selection Awards (AMVCA) for her function within the film, Adire.
Bankole’s profession, which started within the early 2000s with Tremendous Story, spans over twenty years, with notable roles in Determined Housewives Africa and Prophetess. Just lately, she secured a job as Moremi within the Disney animated sequence Kizazi Moto, marking a big milestone in her profession.
As she displays on her achievements, Bankole is set to go away a long-lasting legacy within the leisure world, together with her portrayal of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti serving as a defining second in her journey.
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