Nigeria’s field workplace ended on a excessive be aware in December 2023, grossing N1.65 billion with A Tribe Known as Judah’ alongside three titles contributing 79% of the income.
The announcement was made by the Nigerian field workplace through X on Monday. Akindele’s film alongside the opposite three titles: Aquaman, Malaika, and Ada Omo Daddy launched a number of weeks earlier than Christmas generated a cumulative of N1.3 billion contributing bulk of the cinema field workplace earnings for December 2023.
In response to the tweet,
- “From 1st – thirty first December 2023, the Nigerian Field workplace earned over N1.65B and bought over 461,000 tickets. About 88% of the enterprise got here from the fifteenth – thirty first of December.”
The tweet additionally offered approximate grosses for the main blockbusters:
- “A Tribe Known as Judah: N780M, Aquaman 2: N280M, Malaika: N142M, Ada Omo Daddy: N120M.” It emphasised that official figures may very well be larger as some cinemas are but to report.
What you must know
A Tribe Known as Judah and Ada Omo Daddy premiered on December 15, 2023, whereas Malaika and Aquaman 2 hit cinemas nationwide on December 22, 2023.
Throughout the preliminary hours of its launch, Funke Akindele’s film, “A Tribe Known as Judah,” emerged because the highest-grossing film of 2023, pulling in a formidable sum of over N60 million in ticket gross sales. Concurrently, the charming movie, “Ada Omo Daddy,” additionally skilled a sturdy reception, producing over N18.5 million within the first few days following its launch.
This cinematic triumph unfolded amid a backdrop of declining cinema attendance in Nigeria, a development that has endured during the last 5 years and was additional accentuated by the worldwide pandemic, which disrupted leisure and out of doors actions.
However, in the course of the vacation season, the Nigerian field workplace in a tweet famous a surge in attendance, stating,
- “We’re seeing attendance ranges for this week on par with 2018/2019 ranges & with ticket costs considerably larger, this week’s grosses are doing insane numbers.”
- In December, significantly the times main as much as Christmas, cinema admission (attendance) elevated to nearly pre-pandemic ranges.
- For example, in 2018 between Dec 21-27, cinemas recorded 245,262 admissions. Quick ahead to 2022, Dec 23-29 noticed a drop within the figures to 184,014 and in 2023, the numbers picked as much as 210,756 admissions between Dec 22-28.
