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Saturday, April 17, 2004
Chiwetel Ejiofor
 | Chiwetel Ejiofor is best known internationally for his star performance in the 2002 movie Dirty Pretty Things. Ejiofor was born in London to Nigerian parents and started acting on stage as a teenager. Early in his career he was hired by Steven Spielberg for a small role in Amistad (1997) and worked in British television. On stage he appeared in Romeo and Juliet(as Romeo) and Blue/Orange and was hailed as the next great British actor. He has also appeared in the movies It Was An Accident (2000) and My Friend Soweto (2001), and in the British miniseries Trust(2003).
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Thursday, April 15, 2004
Hollywood, here comes Nollywood
O`VER forty Nigerian film practitioners in the local sector named Nollywood will on Saturday visit its counterpart in Hollywood, United States of America.
Friday, April 09, 2004
Nollywood At Commonwealth Film Festival
By Wale Adebanwi
 | Nigerian movies which have become some of the most popular African-produced movies, will get further recognition beyond the continent at this year’s Commonwealth Film Festival (Comfest), holding at Manchester, United Kingdom, from April 30 to May 9, 2004.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Saturday, March 06, 2004
Usofia in London
Usofia in London
| Take a cocky, motor-mouthed African villager 'Osuofia' (Nkem Owoh) straight out of his life-long habitat and drop him into a million-pound stately home somewhere in England, part of a multi-million pound estate he has suddenly and unexpectedly inherited from his long- lost brother 'Donatus',recently deceased.
Osuofia In London takes a non-PC, tongue-in-cheek look at the conflicts that occur when the unadulterated African culture comes West. Likewise when middle-class West goes walkies in remote Africa.
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Caroline Chikezie
Mirror.co.uk - A profile of Caroline Chikezie
| MOST parents might raise an eyebrow if their daughter announced she wanted to be an actress, but few would take such drastic measures as Caroline Chikezie's mum and dad.
The family of the new Footballers' Wives star were so appalled by her career choice that they tricked her into leaving the UK.
They were determined she would become a doctor as they'd planned and packed her off to a strict boarding school in Nigeria.
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Nollywood or bust Lock, Stock star
Nollywood or bust Lock, Stock star:
Nick Moran went to Nigeria to make a movie. He hadn't reckoned for the gangsters, the unions and the Mel Gibson-sized egos
News -- Step Aside, Los Angeles and Bombay, for Nigeria's Nollywood
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LAGOS, Nigeria — As the sun rises over West Africa's new moviemaking capital, the Surulere district of Lagos, the cast and crew of "Blackmailed" form a four-car convoy to leave for their first day of shooting.
"It's like a dream come true," said Nonso Diobi, 21, who had snatched one of the lead roles in "Blackmailed" only two months after leaving his home in southeastern Nigeria for Surulere, here in the country's commercial capital. "This is where it all happens, where all the stars are who make big money because they can sell movies. I'm not a big star yet. But when I am, I will fix a big price."
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Friday, March 05, 2004
Small stars of Africa's biggest movie industry take to streets
Small stars of Africa's biggest movie industry take to streets
Members of the Dwarfs Association of Nigeria sell their latest films in Lagos traffic. | LAGOS (AFP) - Just about everything about Nigeria's mushrooming movie industry is huge, apart from its latest generation of stars; a team of dwarf actors whose small statures belie their towering ambitions.
The actors have joined the fast growing local home video industry by not only staring in but also marketing and selling their own films
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Monday, March 01, 2004
News -- 'Its unfair to compare Nollywood with Hollywood'
News -- 'When I see our girls on Italian streets, I get challenged'
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