Funke Akindele has change into the primary filmmaker to rank No. 1 on the African field workplace for 3 consecutive years, with a mixed home gross of N5.3 billion.
Her newest launch, “Behind The Scenes” (2025), formally closed at N2.103 billion, overtaking Everyone Loves Jenifa to change into West Africa’s highest-grossing movie of all time.
That is in accordance with field workplace knowledge from cinema distributors and business trackers throughout the area.
The movie was launched below the Funke Ayotunde Akindele Community (FAAN) and distributed by FilmOne Leisure.
The efficiency positions Akindele as Africa’s highest-grossing filmmaker of all time, in addition to the continent’s highest-grossing director, producer, and screenwriter.
Directed by Funke Akindele and Tunde Olaoye, Behind The Scenes options an ensemble solid together with Scarlet Gomez, Iyabo Ojo, Future Etiko, Tobi Bakre, Ibrahim Chatta, Ini Dima-Okojie, Uzor Arukwe, Uche Montana, and Victoria Adeleye.
The two-hour-24-minute drama, rated 12A, follows Aderonke “Ronky-Fella” Faniran, a profitable actual property entrepreneur whose generosity forces a reckoning with private boundaries and accountability.
Akindele beforehand disclosed that the movie’s production funds exceeded N1 billion, underscoring the rising value of large-scale Nollywood productions. Reviews word that her sustained field workplace dominance comes at a time when inflation, increased ticket costs, and shopper spending pressures have made theatrical success more and more tough to realize.
Business knowledge reveals the movie crossed N1.1 billion inside simply 17 days of launch, making it the quickest movie in West Africa to succeed in the billion-naira milestone. It additionally logged the best single-day gross in regional field workplace historical past, pulling in N129.5 million on Boxing Day.
FilmOne Leisure confirmed the figures, describing the run as “one other historical past made,” whereas crediting sustained viewers turnout and robust word-of-mouth.
Since her breakout function on I Have to Know, Funke Akindele has developed into considered one of Nollywood’s most achieved and commercially profitable filmmakers. Via her production outfit, Scene One Productions, she has delivered a string of field office-dominating titles which have redefined earnings potential within the Nigerian movie business.