Funke Akindele’s Behind The Scenes turns into West Africa’s highest-grossing movie of all time
Funke Akindele’s Behind The Scenes has formally overtaken All people Loves Jenifa to turn out to be West Africa’s highest-grossing movie of all time, marking a brand new milestone for Nollywood’s field workplace.
That is based on field workplace efficiency knowledge from cinema distributors and business trackers throughout the area.
The event reveals the rising business energy of regionally produced movies and Funke Akindele’s continued dominance as Nollywood’s most bankable filmmaker.
The movie’s record-breaking run comes after weeks of sustained viewers turnout, sturdy word-of-mouth, and persistently excessive weekly grosses, positioning it forward of Akindele’s earlier blockbuster, All people Loves Jenifa, which ended its theatrical run at about N1.8 billion.
Accessible knowledge reveals that Behind The Scenes has already recorded a cumulative field workplace gross of roughly N1.77 billion as of the final weekend in cinemas.
The film additionally posted a historic N129.5 million single-day gross on Boxing Day, one of many highest ever recorded in Nollywood historical past.
When it comes to viewers turnout, the movie leads West Africa’s 2025 admissions rating with 223,768 admissions between January 1 and December 31, 2025 (not calculating spillover numbers in 2026 but. This locations it effectively forward of All people Loves Jenifa, which recorded 148,863 admissions throughout the identical interval. The numbers replicate not simply larger ticket costs, however a considerably bigger cinema-going viewers.
Past changing into the area’s highest-grossing movie, Behind The Scenes can also be the highest-grossing film of 2025 to date. It represents Funke Akindele’s third N1 billion movie, an achievement that stays unprecedented in Nollywood.
The movie options an expansive, star-studded solid together with BBNaija stars Wanni x Handi, Uche Montana, Scarlet Gomez, Tobi Bakre, Uzor Arukwe, Vee, Mr Macaroni, Ini Dima-Okojie, Iyabo Ojo, Ibrahim Chatta, Dele Odule, Future Etiko, Kamo, Afeez Oyetoro, and Ejiro Onojafe. Its broad enchantment throughout demographics helped maintain momentum weeks after launch.
The success of Behind The Scenes reinforces Nollywood’s transition right into a data-driven, big-budget business able to delivering constant theatrical returns. Funke Akindele beforehand disclosed that the movie’s production finances was near N1 billion, highlighting the rising scale and {financial} threat of contemporary Nigerian filmmaking.
Nairametrics has persistently reported on the rise of billion-naira Nollywood movies and Funke Akindele’s outsized affect on the field workplace. The actress-producer had earlier warned followers towards sharing pirated cinema recordings, emphasizing how piracy immediately threatens movie profitability.
Its momentum continued throughout the area, as Behind The Scenes surged previous N1.1 billion on the West African field workplace simply 17 days after launch, changing into the quickest movie within the area’s historical past to cross the billion-naira threshold.