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Yoruba Epic Movie ‘Beast of Two Worlds’ Earns ₦101.2m Within Five Days
‘Beast of Two Worlds’ (Ajakaju), the latest Yoruba epic movie that is currently showing in Nigerian cinemas, has so far earned ₦101.2mwithin five days.
Film One Entertainment, which is the distributing company of the movie, made an announcement about the development, on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
The distributing company stated: “Nigerians are not playing on this one. Thank you for trusting every movie we dish out.”
‘Beast of Two Worlds’ also gathered an impressive ₦63.2 million in the weekend of its launch, and this was according to the data that was published by the ‘Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN)’ on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Stating further, the ‘CEAN’ stated that the financial accruement of the movie in the ‘weekend’ that it was launched – is the biggest for a Nigerian movie so far this year. The epic movie also significantly surpasses Hollywood film titled ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’, which was premiered at the same time but with a weekend financial accruement of ₦49.3 million.
The ‘CEAN’, which performs the function of official collation of data for films/movies that are showing across Nigerian cinemas, is yet to release data for the film’s total performance within its first-week.
‘Beast of Two Worlds’ is productively a collaboration between ‘Anthill Studios’ and renowned Nollywood actress, Eniola Ajao, who is just producing for the first-time.
The epic movie portrays the story of a king who faces banishment from his kingdom unless he gets his own male child, and as a result of the situation, he becomes desperate and the desperation leads him to marry a new wife, which consequently causes chaos in his kingdom.
‘Beast of Two Worlds’ is a movie that was co-directed by Adebayo Tijani and Odunlade Adekola (who also casts as the king). The movie also features an ‘all-star cast’ including Sola Sobowale, Femi Adebayo, Lateef Adedimeji, Mercy Aigbe, Bimbo Akintola, Fathia Balogun, Ibrahim Chatta, Peju Ogunmola and Olayode Juliana.
‘Beast of Two Worlds’ is the latest Yoruba epic movie to attain the status of a ‘movie hit’ in Nigeria, , which connotes that it has followed the paths of epics movies like ‘Aníkúlápó’, ‘King of Thieves’, ‘Òrìṣà’, and ‘JagunJagun’.
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Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, has announced that his sixth studio album would be dedicated to his late mum, Jane Morayo Balogun.
The ‘Ojuelegba’ hitmaker made the announcement in a video message shared via his social media platform on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
He also disclosed that the album, which is titled ‘Morayo’ and in honour of his late mum, would be released ‘very soon’.
Wizkid’s words: “My album ‘Morayo’, dedicated to my mum, the love of my life, drops very soon. Don’t dull. Don’t sleep.”
It could be recaled that Wizkid’s mother, Jane Dolapo Balogun, died on August 18, 2023, in London.
The singer said the pain of losing his mum ‘hurts deeply’.
In his words: “The pain is profound.”
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Actress Patience Ozukor: I Rejected The Name-Tag ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ On Me, To Have My Own Name-Tag ‘Patience Ozukor’
Nollywood veteran actress, Patience Ozokwor, has disclosed and talked about how people tried to impose titles and name-tags on her at the beginning of her career and how she handled it.
The veteran actress said when she began her acting career, people tried to compare her with legendary actress, Liz Benson, by tagging her as ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ but she rejected the tag because she believes they are both unique.
She disclosed that she also rejected suggestions to answer her husband’s first name as her surname and instead chose to bear his family name.
She actually disclosed this in an interview session via a media platform.
Her words: “I don’t know how it started, all I know was that when I started my acting career and people started recognizing this woman from Enugu.”
“So, there was a time I came to Lagos for a shoot and people started saying, ‘That’s her, this woman from Enugu.’ They said, “You’re the ‘Liz Benson of Enugu.”
“I said, ‘No, with all due respect, I don’t want to be like Liz Benson, I want to be myself. I am ‘Patience Ozokwor of Enugu’.”
“And some people came and said, ‘You don’t even need to answer Patience Ozokwor again. Answer your husband’s first name Edmund; Patience Edmund.’
“I said, ‘No, because in Igbo land, you’re not just married by one man, you’re married by a family. I don’t know about other tribes.”
“So, my husband’s people, their name is Ozokwor. When you mention Ozokwor in any part of this world, people who know the Ozokwors would say ‘I know where she comes from’,” she concluded.
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