Exclusive: How Omoni Oboli ‘beat’ Genevieve Nnaji 2015
– Omoni Oboli makes in more money than Genevieve Nnaji at the box office
– The producer of First Lady is set to drop another block buster movie Wives On Strike
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Actress Omoni Oboli
Nollywood star actress Omoni Oboli is gradually working her way to the top in Nollywood. The happily married mother of three boys not only made the list of the highest earning actors in 2015, she topped the list beating Genevieve Nnaji and others.
In the last two years, Omoni’s movies Being Mrs Elliot and The First Lady have raked in over N50 million, and has featured in back to back box office hit such as Fifty, Anchor Baby, and Figurine.
Her records at the cinema have earned her the sobriquet Queen of the box-office. In the past five years, Omoni’s gross box office earning has risen to about N168 million with cumulative figures from Figurine, Anchor Baby, Being Mrs Elliot, The First Lady and Fifty. Her N168 million even beat Genevieve Nnaji’s box office earnings from Tango With Me, Half of a Yellow Sun, Ije, Mirror Boy and Road To Yesterday which is slightly over N140 million.
Genevieve Nnaji, lead actor/ producer of the movie Road To Yesterday.
Like first Lady, Wives On Strike is a comedy movie and it starred top Nollywood acts Uche Jombo, Chioma Akpotha, Ufuoma McDermott, Kehinde Bankole, Kalu Ikeagwu, and Kenneth Okonkwo. The movie also features star comedian Julius Agwu.
The movie which would be debuting in Nigerian cinemas on the 8th of April is about a group of market women who decided to take matters into their own hands against their husbands in a bid to stir them into standing up for a young girl whom they wanted to protect from the wishes of her own father.
The women, who hilariously interpret their roles, set a series of events in motion to give the movie many moments of laughter without missing a beat on the reason for everyone to know why they are on strike.
Speaking to Naij.com on his expectation of Wives On Strike Moses Babatope, the COO of Film One, the distribution company in charge of the movie said, Omoni might be on the way of her own box office hat trick with three of her self-produced movies.
‘In Nigeria, only one producer has the honour of three box office hit with his three movies. From the look of things, Omoni’s next movie, Wives on Strike which is in cinema from April 8 will make her join that exclusive list’.
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Speaking further, Moses said Omoni’s last movie, The First Lady saved the day for the whole industry last year. ‘Before The First Lady came to cinema, almost all Nollywood movies released last year performed abysmally except one. The First Lady re-established trust in Nigerian movies at the cinemas and further helped subsequent movies released to do well’.
He further asked those who love comedy to go and see the movie, ‘if you love comedy with a little slant on issues, you will love ‘Wives on Strike’ he concluded.
The premiere of the movie will hold on April 3 while nationwide release of the movie will be on April 8.
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