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Rattled by Pandemic, Protests, Nigeria’s Film Industry Looks to Rebound

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Christopher Vourlias When Nigerian cinemas reopened in September after a months-long lockdown, Moses Babatope, co-founder of the distributor and production company FilmOne Entertainment, began looking ahead to a busy fall season that could get the local industry back on track.“We were just beginning to see a recovery,” Babatope says, with “Fate of Alakada” — the third installment in Kayode Kasum’s blockbuster Nollywood franchise — bursting out of the gate after an Oct.

1 Nigerian Independence Day release. A slew of highly anticipated Nigerian titles were to follow. “Local films started driving our recovery.

Whereas everybody was concerned about Hollywood films, we started seeing local films driving the return of cinemas,” he adds.

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