Funke Akindele's OMO GHETTO (the saga) is now the highest grossing Nollywood of all time raking in a whooping sum of N500 million naira at the box office.
The movie which stars FUNKE AKINDELE as LEFTY,ENIOLA BADMUS as BUSTY,CHIOMA AKPOTHA as CHUMMY CHOKO.
With ALEXX EKUBO,MERCY AIGBE,AYO "AY" MAKUN and NANCY ISIME in supporting roles.YEMI ALADE and NAIRA MARLEY were roped in for cameos in a star studded cast.
The movie which was released on the 25th of Dec. 2020 to coincide with Christmas celebrations and was opened to extremely positive reviews from critics.The film became a box office success and surpassed Fate of Alakada as the highest grossing Nigerian film for the year 2020.
The film grossed over ₦189 million in the opening week since its release and it historically became the first Nollywood film ever to gross over ₦99 million in its opening weekend surpassing the previous record set by The Wedding Party 2.In its second week, the movie continued breaking box office records by grossing over ₦132.4 million and firmly staying at the top of the Nigerian box office and bringing its 2 week gross to a record breaking ₦322 million and placing it as the 4th highest grossing Nigerian movie of all time. In its third week, despite seeing a drop of 43% from the previous week, Omo Ghetto still topped the box office and grossed ₦75.4 million bringing its total cumulative to ₦398.5 just after three weeks. Omo Ghetto was so popular that it accounted for about 65% of the box office in Nigeria. Omo Ghetto kept dominating the Nigerian box office, raking up ₦45.9 to top the box office. It brought the cummulative box office figure to ₦444.5 placing it as the 2nd highest grossing Nollywood film of all time after just 4 weeks, Omo Ghetto the saga is currently the highest grossing Nigerian movie of all time with ₦468,036,300 just over a month.Omo Ghetto continued dominating the box office in it's 5th week grossing ₦35.7[14] thus bringing it's cummulative to ₦480.5 and becoming the Highest grossing Nollywood movie of all time with N500 million at the box office in its 6th at the box office
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