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Mercy Johnson’s The Legend of Inikpi becomes Nollywood’s highest grossing EPIC film

Mercy Johnson’s The Legend of Inikpi

Mercy Johnson Okojie’s production debut ‘The Legend of Inikpi’ has recently set a new record for Nollywood’s biggest epic film at the cinemas.

Almost hitting the N20 million naira mark in its 2nd week, the movie is poised to beat the ‘Nollywood epic’ jinx in Nigerian cinemas. Nollywood Epic movies perform poorly in comparison to all others in Nigerian cinemas.

Mercy Johnson’s The Legend of Inikpi

The record for highest grossing Nollywood epic was previously held by Emem Isong’s 2016 film, ‘Ayamma’ which grossed a total of approximately 16 million naira at the box office after several weeks.

Mercy Johnson’s The Legend of Inikpi

Interestingly, ‘The Legend of Inikpi’ also holds till date the biggest Nollywood opening weekend of 2020 grossing 7.4 million naira while screening in just 44 cinemas.

The producer who maintains that telling Nigerian stories is her mandate was excited to break the news on Instagram.

“The first reaction to my film was a rude awakening; ‘epic movies don’t sell in Nigerian cinemas’ Honestly, I was terrified when I saw statistics on statistics… I’m humbled to see the love that #TheLegendofInikpi has received in its first week, It’s not the regular blockbuster figures of course but most importantly, it’s a strong validation that we should tell our stories and the people will come and watch them’’

Mercy Johnson’s The Legend of Inikpi
Mercy Johnson’s The Legend of Inikpi
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Moses Asuquo is a Journalist and a media consultant with over 8 years of experience. Trained at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) he has since being actively different stories. You can reach him out on asuq4me@gmail.com