{"id":21682,"date":"2024-12-30T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T14:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21682"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:32:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T14:32:55","slug":"everybody-loves-jenifa-makes-history-grosses-n1bn-at-box-office-in-19-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21682","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everybody Loves Jenifa\u2019 makes history, grosses N1bn at box office in 19 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/lifestyle.thecable.ng\/tag\/everybody-loves-jenifa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Everybody Loves Jenifa<\/a>\u2018, a new film by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Funke_Akindele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Funke Akindele<\/a>, has set unprecedented box office records after grossing over N1 billion in cinemas in 19 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Film One, the entertainment company,\u00a0announced the record-breaking achievement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DEMvYjzMiwZ\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>via Instagram<\/strong><\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, the company revealed \u2018Everybody Loves Jenifa,\u2019 released across cinemas on December 11, is the second film to earn over N1 billion at the box office in 12 months \u2014 following in the footstep of another Akindele\u2019s movie \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/lifestyle.thecable.ng\/funke-akindeles-a-tribe-called-judah-makes-history-hits-n1bn-at-box-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>A Tribe of Judah<\/strong><\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>It also disclosed that the film is the fastest title to achieve the billion-mark achievement in the shortest time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Film One added that Akindele, 47, is Nigeria\u2019s highest-grossing producer and director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a massive win! \ud83c\udfc6 1 Billion Gang! Thank you Nigeria and Ghana for watching and supporting this movie! This movie has grossed over 1 Billion at the box office!\u201d the post reads.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Nigerian Box Office <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NGAboxoffice\/status\/1873680593185284213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>took to X<\/strong><\/a> to announce that the movie raked in N250 million last weekend and N1.035 billion since its release.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/funkeakindele\/status\/1873692020356927738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>achievement via X<\/strong>,<\/a> Akindele appreciated her fans in Nigeria and Ghana for watching the film and encouraged people to continue watching it worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Everybody Loves Jenifa\u2019 was\u00a0earlier\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lifestyle.thecable.ng\/everybody-loves-jenifa-sets-nollywoods-box-office-record-for-opening-day-with-n45m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as the highest-grossing opening day film in the industry\u2019s history, after raking in N45.2 million, with 9,409 admissions.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The movie also <a href=\"https:\/\/lifestyle.thecable.ng\/funke-akindele-everybody-loves-jenifa-made-100k-in-opening-weekend-abroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>earned $100,000<\/strong><\/a> in cinema revenue in the diaspora in the opening week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Everybody Loves Jenifa\u2019 is part of the popular Jenifa franchise, which has been entertaining audiences since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The movie features an ensemble cast, including Layi Wasabi, Nancy Isime, Jackie Appiah, Falz, Omowunmi Dada, Chimezie Imo, Patience Ozokwor, and Stan Nze.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/lifestyle.thecable.ng\/everybody-loves-jenifa-makes-history-hits-n1bn-at-box-office-in-19-days\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TheCable<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Everybody Loves Jenifa\u2018, a new film by Funke Akindele, has set unprecedented box office records after grossing over N1 billion in cinemas in 19 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8325,9254,4093,3581,9915],"class_list":["post-21682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-box-office","tag-everybody-loves-jenifa","tag-funke-akindele","tag-history","tag-n1bn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21689,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions\/21689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}