{"id":29432,"date":"2024-04-29T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T14:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=29432"},"modified":"2024-04-29T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T14:55:12","slug":"nigerian-box-office-hollywood-outperforms-nollywood-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/29\/nigerian-box-office-hollywood-outperforms-nollywood-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Box Office: Hollywood Outperforms Nollywood in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite a strong finish from Nollywood in December, Hollywood films dominated the Nigerian box office in 2023, with cinema-goers spending more on foreign movies throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>According to data shared by FilmOne on April 25, 2024, Hollywood blockbusters like John Wick: Chapter 4, Fast X, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom led the highest-grossing films list, surpassing top Nollywood earners such as A Tribe Called Judah and Malaika.<\/p>\n<p>The disparity in spending highlights the larger production and marketing budgets of Hollywood, enabling immersive experiences with advanced special effects, sound design, and cinematography techniques.<\/p>\n<p>While Hollywood&#8217;s global distribution contributes to its success, Nollywood continues to showcase unique Nigerian stories, culture, and language, hinting at potential for growth with expanding international reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah Despite a strong finish from Nollywood in December, Hollywood films dominated the Nigerian box office in 2023, with cinema-goers spending more on foreign movies throughout the year. According to data shared by FilmOne on April 25, 2024, Hollywood blockbusters like John Wick: Chapter 4, Fast X, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":29434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29436,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29432\/revisions\/29436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}