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How Behind the Scenes Became One of Nollywood’s Biggest Movies Ever

Okoh Raymond
Okoh Raymond

March 9, 2026

How Behind the Scenes Became One of Nollywood’s Biggest Movies Ever

How Behind the Scenes Became One of Nollywood’s Biggest Movies Ever

Behind the scenes, created by a very popular Nigerian actress Funke Akindele. This film has been breaking records on records in the cinema and showing Nigerian films can compete with any film in Africa and anywhere in the world. Funke Akindele is one of the most successful actresses in Nigeria. She's known for her popular role "Jenifa's Diary", in which she played Jenifa, where she started as an actress and later became a director, producer and storyteller. She produced films like Omo Ghetto: The Saga, A Tribe Called Judah, and Everybody Loves Jenifa.


Behind the Scenes tells the story of a successful woman named Ronke Fernandez. Ronke appears to have a perfect life. She is successful, respected, and always willing to help the people around her. But something starts to happen. Many people in her life begin to depend on her too much. Friends and family keep asking her for help, money, and support. At first she tries to help everyone, but then the pressure grows, and then she realises that helping others may also affect her own peace.


Some of the cast in the movie are Funke Akindele, who plays Ronke Fernandez; Scarlet Gomez; Uzor Arukwe; Ini Dima-Okojie; and Tobi Bakre. The movie also features popular Nollywood stars like Iyabo Ojo, Destiny Etiko, Ibrahim Chatta, Mr Macaroni, and Uche Montana.


The making of "Behind the Scenes" was not easy. Funke Akindele revealed the production cost #1 billion Naira to make, and there were still many complications in production and distribution. The film premiered on December 12th, 2025, grossing $200M on the first 3 days of its release. The movie hit 1 billion within 19 days and later made a total of 2 billion+. This showed how much audiences loved the film.


This showed that Nigerian movies can also make huge money in cinemas, not only Hollywood movies. It also shows that Nigerian filmmakers are improving in their storytelling and production quality. The run time is 2 hours 24 minutes long.


The success of Behind the Scenes is another huge moment for Nollywood. The movie showed that Nigerian filmmakers can create powerful stories that attract millions of viewers. With a talented cast, an emotional story, and strong cinema support, the film became one of the biggest Nollywood movies ever made. Behind the scenes is still playing in cinemas.

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