TOP FILMS IN Q2 WEST AFRICAN BOX OFFICE TABLE FOR Q2 - HOLLYWOOD & NOLLYWOOD Vol. 2, 2019 D I ~ E S T Post Theatrical Run: H O W T O M A K E M O R E M O N E Y INTERVIEW ON SET WITH Q3 Box Office forecast BOLANLE AUSTEN-PETERS with Remi Adeyanju Director/Producer - The Bling Lagosians From the Editor-in-Chief Hello cinema enthusiast, I’m excited to be presenting another edition of the FilmOne Digest to you. We reveal box office performances for We have come leaps and bounds in our top films released in the quarter, as well endeavour to sail productively through as a forecast of top films to watch out the second quarter of the year; one that for in Q3, based on insights from an was full of exciting performances at the expert at film booking and box office box office, as well as important analysis, Remi Adeyanju. developments in our industry. Lastly, you’ll have access to recent This edition includes an interview with industry news, a power list of the box office queen-of-the-moment, Nollywood’s best cinematographers and Bolanle Austen-Peters, whose latest a review on the quarter’s sensation, feature film The Bling Lagosians has Anna. been the most successful Nollywood title of 2019, so far. Also, we have Enjoy your reading! interesting articles addressing topics such as royalties, strategic film Jude Martins marketing, cinema development and Editor-in-Chief the social media film space. PublicationTeam PUBLISHERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Kene Okwuosa Jude Martins Tosin Arise, Tolani Olusola Michael Williams Moses Babatope Mimi Bartels, Uchechi Obasi-Ukpa, Jude Martins, Matilda Ogunleye and Ladun Awobokun FILMONE DIGEST 2 FilmOne D I ~ E S T Contents Vol. 2, 2019 Publishers’ Corner 4 MOVIE REVIEW ANNA 5 Royalties: Is Nollywood Ready? 6 FILM TABLE Top 10 Hollywood Films Released in Q2 8 FILM TABLE Top 5 Nollywood Films Released in Q2 10 INTERVIEW Interview with Bolanle Austen-Peters 12 The Emerging Film Market on Social Media 14 FILM TABLE FilmOne’s Top Films - Q2 16 PREMIERES PREMIERE RED CARPETS: The New Fashion Runways 19 MOVIE PREMIERE The Bling Lagosians 20 ARMOTICLEVIE PREMIERE Dark Pheonix 21 AFTER A THEATRICAL RUN: How to Make More Money for Your Film 22 POWER LIST 4 of Nollywood’s Finest Cinematographers 24 SPECIAL FEATURES HOLLYWOOD 25 SPECIAL FEATURES NOLLYWOOD 31 The Future of Community Cinemas in Nigeria 35 INTERVIEW From Hollywood with Love 38 ARTICLE Box Office Summary for the West African Territory 40 ARTICLE Q3 in View with Remi Adeyanju 43 EXHIBITORS CORNER Marturion Cinemas 44 EXHIBITORS CORNER Genesis Cinemas 45 Industry News 46 Movies Now Available on AMAZON Prime 49 Films Now Available In-flight… 49 FilmOne Production 50 In the Next Edition… 51 FILMONE DIGEST 3 Publishers' CORNER Dear industry enthusiast, In Q3, exhibitors anticipate We are excited to be publishing great performances from the second edition of FilmOne several titles, such as Hobbs & Digest in 2019. With the year Shaw, The Lion King (2019), half gone and the third quarter Angel Has Fallen and Stuber; b e g i n n i n g , o u r and, from Nollywood, The Set communications team has put Up (co-produced by FilmOne) together a summary of industry and Omoni Oboli’s Love is activities and materials that War, amongst others. will enlighten you on how well we fared in this region. A w a y f r o m b o x - o ffi c e performances, the second For us at FilmOne, it has been quarter had us involved with an eventful period having to global trends while attending distribute twenty-one films this the Cannes Film Festival and quarter. The team has had to CineEurope in Barcelona. We maximise capacity to sustain h a d a n o p p o r t u n i t y t o our standards in the process of deliberate on issues around achieving goals, meeting diversification of the industry, deadlines and yielding positive p a r t n e r s h i p s a n d results. Permit us to utilise this advancements in technology, medium to thank all staff of as they affect our business FilmOne for their commitment daily. and passion towards realising our objectives. From Shazam! Our communications team has to Breakthrough and Hell Boy, covered all of these and more in all the way to Dark Phoenix, this interesting episode. Enjoy Anna and The Bling Lagosians, your read! we have had engaging times, organising premieres and d e a l i n g w i t h l o g i s t i c s , marketing and technical demands. Interestingly, our titles have Kene Okwuosa done very well, occupying five Group CEO spots on a top-ten table that featured the likes of Avengers: End Game, Aladdin and John Moses Babatope Wick, thanks to the strategic Group ED/MD marketing approach of our The FilmOne Limited. team. FILMONE DIGEST 4 MovieReview:ANNA MOVIE REVIEW ANNA EMAIL: [email protected] nna an action-thriller successfully unraveled the depth and dexterity proves that Adirected by Luc Besson, story in a way that thrilled from a book shouldn’t be judged by brings to mind blockbusters start to finish. i t s c o v e r . S h e w a s like Lucy and Electra, which unpredictable throughout and suggested that this might be a Anna explores themes that the exploited the fact that her good film. However, the target audience will identify enemies underrated her. s i m p l i c i t y o f t h e t i t l e with: self-defense, love, anger, underplayed the finesse Besson l u s t , f e a r , b e t r a y a l a n d Cillian Murphy, Luke Evans uses to connect to his audience. romance. The fact that the a n d H e l e n M i r r e n w e r e Anna is a young girl, with a fantastic in their roles, creating Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, slender body and an innocent suspense and intrigue, and Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy face, makes her look every inch working extremely well as an a n d L e r a A b o v a w e r e a m o d e l r a t h e r t h a n a n ensemble. I enjoyed Anna impressive; they interpreted assassin. This makes it more thoroughly and look forward to their roles well, thereby intriguing, as she keeps an almost inevitable sequel. keeping the audience on the displaying fighting skills the edge of their seats. They gave audience never just the right amount of tension - Uchechi Obasi-Ukpa required to build suspense, Sasha Luss interprets the role FilmOne Administrator/ while director Luc Besson of Anna perfectly. Her beauty, Script Analyst FILMONE DIGEST 5 ROYALTIES: Is Nollywood Ready? h a t e x a c t l y a r e payments are typically for the In the actual production of the W royalties? According specific usage of content, in movie, payment for the art over to Investopedia, a royalty is a terms of music scores and 'pay the course of the production is payment to an owner for the per performance', in terms of typically a one-off fee that is ongoing use of their asset or actors’ fees. Ultimately, the incorporated in the production property, such as patents, producers get the larger budget. This, of course, is copyrighted works, franchises portion of film revenues after a g r e e d o n b e t w e e n t h e or natural resources. The legal distribution expenses have producer and the artist, and owner of the property receives a been deducted. ordinarily 50% of the payment royalty payment from licensees is done before production or franchisees who wish to How it works: takeoff, with the other half due make use of it to generate afterward. On the other hand, r e v e n u e . I n m o s t c a s e s , For scores (music for film), the producers ultimately reap royalties are designed to payments are made to owners the profits/losses following the compensate the owner for the of copyrighted music for use in theatrical release of the film, asset's use and they are legally a film. Payments could be made a f t e r a l l p r o d u c t i o n , binding. t o t h e r e c o r d l a b e l , distribution and mandatory tax management and/or artiste(s) i m p l i c a t i o n s h a v e b e e n Bringing this back home to (depending on the contractual deducted. Nigeria’s entertainment space, agreement). Whereas, in the international FILMONE DIGEST 6 ROYALTIES: Is Nollywood Ready? movie space, along with the ( a c t o r s ) t o b e n e fi t f r o m taken out) has helped the performance-based pay given r o y a l t i e s a n d b a c k - e n d success of their movies. to actors, there have been income? We can’t say that it is. notable situations where However, we can foresee a Of course, this could be another actors’ earnings go beyond one- future where producers, actors way, outside of performance off fees to a share of ancillary and all stakeholders in the film fees, to incentivise actors to be earnings, following the end of i n d u s t r y c o u l d e m b r a c e more active in the marketing the theatrical window of the collaboration, as we believe it is and promotion of a film.