Nigerian filmmakers have commended the coming of the world’s largest producers anddistributors of motion pictures, 20th Century Fox.
The are hopeful that the group will be bringing their investment to Nigeria courtesy of FilmOne Distribution.
The Fox/FilmOne partnership came barely five months after the Group MD/CEO of Filmhouse Cinemas/FilmOne Distribution, Kene Mkparu, inked a deal with Image Maximum (IMAX), the world’s biggest motion picture film format.
As part of the agreement, FilmOne Distribution will release in 2016 such titles as Independence Day: Resurgence, Ice Age: Collision Course, as well as The Birth of a Nation from the Studio’s Fox Searchlight Pictures division and Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls. The release of Independence Day: Resurgence in West Africa has been fixed for July 1.
