Inside Nollywood:
the people, the places, the money, the movies
From a ₦2.76 billion box-office record to YouTube channels watched in Houston and Hounslow — naijanewsfeeds is launching the most complete map yet of Nigeria’s film industry, and tracking every release as it happens.
Why a series, why now
Nollywood is no longer a curiosity. It is a structured, multi-billion-naira industry with three distinct ecosystems running in parallel — the cinema circuit anchored by FilmOne, Genesis, Silverbird and FilmHouse; the streaming pipeline split between Netflix Naija, Prime Video, Showmax and the new Showmax-on-DStv Stream; and the YouTube engine running out of Asaba, Surulere, Lekki and increasingly Abuja, where channels like Nollywoodpicturestv, RealnollyTV and Yorubahood deliver feature-length films straight to phones in Lagos, London and Atlanta on the same day.
Think of Nollywood as a city with three districts that share a skyline but operate on different clocks. Inside Nollywood is our attempt to draw the map — and then keep drawing it, every single day.
According to Nairametrics, the West Africa Box Office Year Book 2025 projects the Nigerian cinema box office to cross ₦20 billion in 2026, up from ₦15.64 billion in 2025 and just ₦7.36 billion as recently as 2023. Average ticket prices have nearly tripled in three years, from ₦2,824 in 2023 to a projected ₦6,800 this year. That is a market reshaping itself in real time, and it deserves coverage that goes deeper than weekend listicles.
Four interlocking tracks, one hub
Like a newsroom running a daily paper alongside a Sunday magazine, Inside Nollywood publishes on four parallel tracks that all feed back to this hub page. Bookmark this URL — every new piece will be added to the index below.
The 10-Episode Deep-Dive
Long-form anchor essays mapping Nollywood’s eras, geography, stars, money and platforms. Each episode is a standalone read but cross-references the others.
- Mixed bylines: culture pieces by Yeshua, business pieces by Alex
- 2,500–3,500 words with charts, profile cards and cross-links
Nollywood Today
A short, scannable ticker of the day’s releases — what opens in cinemas, what dropped on Netflix / Prime / Showmax overnight, the top three Nollywood YouTube uploads, and the biggest celebrity beat of the day.
- 5-cell KPI strip, 4 standardised sections
- Diaspora corner: UK, USA & Canada platform availability
Nollywood This Week
The Sunday-paper supplement of the series — a Friday roundup with a filterable headline browser of every week’s releases, a Chart.js admissions chart, five editor verdict picks and a numbers-of-the-week panel.
- Bookmark-able archive across the year
- Awards-season expansion during AMVCA & AMAA windows
Spotlights & Anatomies
The interstitials between flagship episodes — director spotlights, “Anatomy of a Hit” film breakdowns, our Nollywood glossary, and pure infographic posts on the numbers driving the industry.
- Profiles of Kunle Afolayan, Kemi Adetiba, Editi Effiong, Jade Osiberu and more
- Hit anatomies: Behind The Scenes, Anikulapo, Lisabi, The Black Book
The series launches into AMVCA week
The 12th Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards
Held in Lagos with veteran Joke Silva as head judge, Gingerrr and The Herd lead the 2026 nominations with nine nods each. Lateef Adedimeji enters with a historic triple acting nomination across Lisabi: A Legend Is Born, Gingerrr and Red Circle. See the full list at Punch. Naijanewsfeeds will run a live blog, a winners-night special, and a morning-after analysis trio.
The flagship 10 episodes
One episode every Monday for ten weeks. Each title links here back to this hub, and forward to two or three sibling episodes — the way a well-built library section cross-references itself.