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Disney Partners with Nollywood to Bring American Movies to EnglishSpeaking West Africa By Aisha Salaudeen
DISNEY, IS JOINING FORCES with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as "Mulan" in English-speaking West Africa. The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment (https://web.facebook.com/filmoneng www.instagram.com/ filmoneng) the sole distributors of Disney-owned
films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. "It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner," Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens. The firm has also distributed and produced Nigerian box oďŹƒce hits such as "The Wedding P a r t y, " and "New Money.'" "What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers a n d distributors of Disney titles in the Englishspeaking W e s t African countries that have 70
September-October 2020
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