By September 2024, the West African movie theaters, especially in Nigeria, are doing really well.
The total money made from selling movie tickets in the first seven months of the year is over N5 billion. They hope to make N10 billion by the end of the year.
This is even more impressive because movie tickets cost an average of N3,900 each, and about 1.3 million tickets were sold. This shows a big 34% increase in money made compared to the first half of 2023, even though many people are careful with their spending.
Nollywood movies are very popular. They made up 50.05% of all the movie ticket sales in Nigeria for the first half of 2024.
The ten movies that made the most money together brought in N3.24 billion just in Nigeria up to now in 2024. These movies sold tickets worth N796 million.
This list shows that Nigerian people like a mix of local and international films.
Here are the top 10 highest-grossing movies in Nigeria for 2024:
Gross Revenue: N170.8 million
Admissions: 39,733
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (2024) is an American science fiction action movie. It is directed by Wes Ball and written by Josh Friedman. This is the fourth movie in the Planet of the Apes series and continues from “War for the Planet of the Apes” (2017).
The movie stars Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, and William H. Macy. The story happens many years after Caesar’s death. It follows Noa, a young chimpanzee, and Mae, a human woman, who work together to decide the future of both apes and humans. The movie came out in theaters on May 2, 2024, and was released publicly on May 10. It made over $397 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews in major cinemas.
