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Street Fighter lands in Nigerian cinemas on Friday, 16 October, and it heads our movies to watch in Nigeria this week. The same day brings First Lady, the only new Nollywood title on the cinema calendar, while Ben Affleck's kidnap thriller Animals is already on Netflix. The old guard still owns the screens, though. When GistMatrix checked Cinephiles.ng on the…

Nigerian cinemas have rarely had a week like this. A Mount Zion remake is chasing Jenifa's opening record, Hollywood's new No 1 is on the same screens, and Tom Cruise's weakest opening in 19 years, by Deadline's count, is two doors down. These are the new movies to watch this week in Nigeria, ranked by GistMatrix. This is an editorial…

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the producers behind the Black Market Guinness record, hailing Saturday's 51,000-viewer screening in Lagos as a showcase of Nigerian talent and business muscle in a statement on Monday. The message turns a weekend Nollywood milestone into a national talking point. It also puts two filmmakers, rather than the film's star-studded cast, at the centre of…

Nollywood has a new world record. Black Market, the crime thriller directed by Fatimah Binta Gimsay, drew 51,000 viewers to a single screening at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos on Saturday, 26 September, setting the Guinness World Record for the largest audience at a film screening in one location. That 51,000 is the figure Guinness World Records verified, and it…