Funke Akindele’s movie grosses record-breaking ₦122.7m at box office
Funke Akindele’s new film, A Tribe Called Judah, is officially Nollywood’s first to gross ₦113 million in its opening weekend after it started screening in cinemas on December 15, 2023.
The record-breaking film follows a band of brothers who must dabble in a life of crime to save their mother’s life, a tale so gripping it attracted a total of 34,996 cinema admissions, inclusive of the advanced screenings.
If the pattern holds A Tribe Called Judah…big opening splash sets it on good course to eclipse Battle on Buka Street, also Akindele’s film, as Nollywood’s highest-grossing film, currently ₦668.4 million.
This could potentially leave Akindele filling the top three slots for Nollywood’s highest grossing films as her Omo Ghetto: The Saga currently sits in second position with a total gross of ₦636.1 million.