(From The Tribune) How patriotic are the indigenous cinemas? Newton Ray-Ukwuoma, in a bid
to answer this question, investigates the reasons behind foreign movies gaining
ascendancy in Lagos cinemas and brings his report.
Revamping a cinema culture where more indigenous movies are the choice
selections of cinema goers might be a vastly wrung out imagination, but a
possible break point for a boom in the Nigerian movie industry known as
Nollywood, which spins out a whopping sum of 2000 straight-to-the-video movies
per annum, ranking higher than America’s Hollywood and behind India’s
Bollywood. But for most cinema houses in the commercial nerve centre of
Nigeria, Lagos State, it is all about the exotic and the fray.
