{"id":19493,"date":"2019-07-15T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=19493"},"modified":"2019-07-15T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:20:13","slug":"in-these-hard-times-nigerians-spend-n3-billion-in-cinemas-in-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=19493","title":{"rendered":"In these hard times, Nigerians spend N3 billion in cinemas in 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Anita Eboigbe<\/strong> (NAN<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n

Nigerians spent nearly 3, 124, 026, 959 billion Naira to watch box office movies at Nigerian cinemas between January and June.<\/p>\n\n\n

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the figures are according to data provided by cinemas and gathered by the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN).<\/p>\n\n\n

The year opened with \u2018Aquaman\u2019, \u2018Chief Daddy\u2019 and \u2018Up North\u2019 sitting on the top three of the chart with an estimated combined earnings of 168, 263, 512 million Naira.<\/p>\n\n\n

The movies maintained their positions until the fourth week when \u2018Glass\u2019 debuted at number one with \u2018Aquaman\u2019 taking second place and \u2018Chief Daddy\u2019, third booting \u2018Up North\u2019 to fourth place.<\/p>\n\n\n

This led to a combined earnings of 91, 409, 100 million Naira which fell to 77, 259, 811 million Naira as January closed with Kevin Hart\u2019s \u2018The Upside\u2019 kicking \u2018Chief Daddy\u2019 to fourth place.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Infographic showing gross distribution (Source: NAN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

)NAN reports that earnings remained low for February, making it the lowest grossing month with a total of 291, 843, 044 million Naira.<\/p>\n\n\n

Top spots were alternated between \u2018Alita\u2019, \u2018Cold Pursuit\u2019, \u2018What Men Want\u2019, \u2018Escape Room\u2019 and \u2018The UpSide\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

By March, viewership picked up steadily and the earnings were almost doubled from that of February leading to a total of 434, 432, 431 million Naira.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u2018What Men Want\u2019, \u2018Alita\u2019, \u2018Hire A Woman\u2019, \u2018She Is\u2019, \u2018Us\u2019 and \u2018Babymamas\u2019 enjoyed a relatively good run in March but a chunk of the earnings and viewership went to Marvel\u2019s flick \u2018Captain Marvel\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

At the beginning of April, \u2018HellBoy\u2019, \u2018Shazam\u2019, \u2018Little\u2019 and \u2018Us\u2019 continued to share the top spot with \u2018Captain Marvel\u2019 until the release of the much anticipated \u2018Avengers:Endgame\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

NAN also reports that with \u2018Avengers: Endgame\u2019, earnings from April climbed from 186, 929, 188 million Naira in its third week to 342, 382, 389 million Naira in its final week.<\/p>\n\n\n

The month, which is the highest grossing in 2019, closed with an estimated total earnings of 734, 151, 060 million Naira due to major boost from Disney\u2019s \u2018Endgame\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

In May, there was a massive dip in earnings similar to that experienced in February. With \u2018Endgame\u2019, \u2018The Intruder\u2019 and \u2018Longshot\u2019, it earned a total of 367, 498, 554 million Naira.<\/p>\n\n\n

The fall in viewership is usual after a global holiday such as Christmas for December\/January and Easter for April.<\/p>\n\n\n

The numbers picked up in June with \u2018John Wick\u2019, \u2018Godzilla\u2019 and \u2018Aladdin\u2019 leading the numbers. They were supported by \u2018Anna\u2019, \u2018Men In Black\u2019, \u2018Dark Phoenix\u2019 and \u2018Bling Lagosians\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

June opened with 161, 132, 714 million Naira but closed with 100, 663, 647 million Naira leading to a total earning of 576, 322, 779 million Naira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Anita Eboigbe (NAN) Nigerians spent nearly 3, 124, 026, 959 billion Naira to watch box office movies at Nigerian cinemas between January and June. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the figures are according to data provided by cinemas and gathered by the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN). The year opened with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5775],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}