Nigeria Now Producing More Movies Than Hollywood
By News One May 7, 2009 5:47 pm
From John Boonstra at UNDispatch.com:
Question: Where are the top three movie-producing industries in the world?
Hint: Yes, they all end in “-ollywood,” and, yes, one of them is in fact Hollywood.
Answer: But the United States’ vaunted movie machine is not first, as lovers of Indian “Bollywood” flicks surely know. Nor, however, is it even second any more. According to the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Nollywood has moved into the runner-up position. (That’s the moniker for Nigeria’s film industry, for those less well-acquainted with the global distribution of -ollywoods.)
What’s more, it wasn’t even close.
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What your missing is the fact that this is a BLACK OWNED film industry, that is producing 400 BLACK OWNED, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED films a year!
Y’all need to wake up…Spike Lee can’t even produce ONE movie a year in USA’s Hollywood.
Angela Bassett is lucky to get ONE film Role a year!
If Oprah , Spike Lee, Robert Johnson, Jay-Z were to invest in Nollywood, their quality would get better and their films would reach wider audiences. And then we could see more positive images of Africans on screen than
the one or two a year we get.
lmfao i would not watch that crap
i’ve watched some nollywood movie and ummm yeah, you can’t compare it to western standards but they’re just as bad as filipinos ones [sans the stereotypical homo]
that is good and they should keep to aim high and their movies will go international
i like the movie called Beyonce its and nice movie and also one called Princess Tyra
i saw some of those it was so garbage.I watched a flick called beyonce. Check out http://www.cashcowgreen.com for that classy urban fashion.
who the hell looks at that garbage??? Personally, I cant stomach 5 minutes of it
My question is what is the American Black Community doing for ITSELF? When are we going to figure out that waiting on others to fix the issues we ourselves create is TRULY the WRONG approach?
See what some of the things black people can do when not under the psychological pressures of living in a racist, quasi neo-nazi nation? Don’t let Obama fool you! He won’t be doing much for the black community. I am willing to bet that by the time his term(s) is(are) over Bill “You think they would let a black man be president” Clinton will have out done him.