Tope Oshin

November 16, 2019

Funmi Iyanda, Olumide Makanjuola, Kunle Afolayan, Tope Oshin, Michelle Dede, others, step out for ’Walking with Shadows’ premiere at AFRIFF

Funmi Iyanda, Kunle Afolayan, Tope Oshin, Michelle Dede and Zainab Balogun were among the personalities that attended the premiere of ‘Walking with Shadows’ at the African International Film Festival yesterday Thursday, 14 November, 2019. Featuring a stellar cast including Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi, Wale Ojo, Ozzy Agu, Zainab Balogun, Funsho Adeolu, and more, ‘Walking with Shadows’ discusses... Read More

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#MTVShugaNaija is back with a new cast and here’s what we know

After an electric season of MTV Shuga: Down South, the show is back to Nigeria for season 4 and a new cast was unveiled on Tuesday at a press briefing, old characters reprising their roles like Tobi (Timini Egbuson) and Faa (Adebukola Oladipupo). However, one character that wasn’t introduced at the briefing is Jemima Osunde’s... Read More

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Ishaya Bako’s ‘4th republic’ holds star-studded premiere in Lagos

Celebrities, personalities and politicians in attendance… One of the most anticipated Nollywood films of 2019, ‘4th Republic’ premiered on Sunday, April 7, 2019, at IMAX, Filmhouse Cinemas, Lekki Lagos. The premiere played out the election theme with PVCs, ballot boxes, and election staff as ushers. With a dress code themed ‘Your Excellency,’ the stars and guests... Read More

Entertainment roundup: Angelina Jolie may join the MCU in ‘The Eternals’; Silverbird Group signs pact with streaming company Streamliner | Other stories

Here are the biggest stories you may have missed in entertainment during the week and others that unraveled while you slept – and are still buzzing today. Angelina Jolie may join the MCU in The Eternal Guys, brace yourselves. Angelina Jolie could be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the next roll out of films... Read More

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‘MTV Shuga: Down South’ has never shied away from LGBTQ representation. ‘MTV Shuga Naija,’ what are you still waiting for???

MTV Shuga: Down South is in its second season, and the fifth episode will go down as one of its loveliest offerings on LGBTQ representation. In short, here’s a hot and steaming visual display of what went down: You have the permission to stare at the picture for as long as possible, but stay with... Read More

Culture, Featured

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February 5, 2019

Tope Oshin’s ‘Up North’ to screen at Facebook’s headquarters in celebration of Black History Month

Tope Oshin’s Up North hit cinemas in December, a movie that placed singer-turned-politician Banky W in a lead role since 2016’s buzzy romantic drama The Wedding Party. Up North is still having its cinema run and with reviews that have polarised critics – Frank Ugobude writing for Pulse thinks it’s an exciting visual delight while... Read More

Featured, The Film Blog

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December 17, 2018

Banky W reveals how he endured pains during the filming of ‘Up North’

Premiering on Sunday with a theme that conveys the movie’s Northern DNA, Tope Oshin’s Up North is barely two weeks from hitting cinemas. Its male lead Banky W, who is gradually establishing himself as a bankable actor (excuse the pun), has just revealed in an exclusive interview with Pulse how he endured pains during the... Read More

Featured, The Film Blog

Banky W, Tope Oshin, Up North

December 10, 2018

BON Awards 2018: Tope Oshin’s ‘We Don’t Live Here Anymore’ wins Best Movie of the Year

The 10th edition of the Best of Nollywood Awards (BON) held Friday at the Kakanfo Conference Centre in Ibadan, Oyo. The event was hosted by comedian Helen Paul and veteran actor Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey and had Governor Abiola Ajimobi as the chief host. Nollywood stars thronged the ceremony; from Segun Arinze, Nobert Young, Yemi Solade,... Read More

Featured, The Film Blog

Best of Nollywood Awards, Tope Oshin, We Don’t Live Here Anymore

November 10, 2018

BON 2018: Tope Oshin’s ‘We Don’t Live Here Anymore’ leads with 11 nominations

In what I’m going to regard as a win for Nigerian queer cinema, the nominations list for the Best of Nollywood awards was released yesterday and Tope Oshin’s 2018 queer movie We Don’t Live Here Anymore bagged eleven nominations. Outstanding, I have to say. Best Director, Movie of the Year, and Best Promising Actor (Francis... Read More

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up north

November 5, 2018

The internet is saying Banky W is too old to play a youth corper in Tope Oshin’s ‘Up North’

Tope Oshin’s upcoming movie Up North is slated for release next month, and its press roll out has just given us a trailer and film poster that shows lead actor Banky W in NYSC gear. We already know the movie was shot in Bauchi and makes commentary on the mandated youth service while exploring themes... Read More

Banky W, Tope Oshin, Up North

October 17, 2018

The Initiative for Equal Rights premieres feature film, ‘We Don’t Live Here Anymore’ (PHOTOS)

The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERS) premiered the Tope Oshin directed film, ‘We Don’t Live Here Anymore’ on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at IMAX Cinemas, Lekki, Lagos. The screening was witnessed by celebrities and movie industry players such as Ashionye Raccah, Uti Nwachukwu, Denrele Edun, Latasha Ngwube, Timi Dakolo, Shade Ladipo, among others. Written by... Read More

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October 12, 2018

The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERS) set to premiere ‘We Don’t Live Here Anymore’ this Sunday

‘We Don’t Live Here Anymore’, a new film by The Initiative for Equal Rights is set to premiere on Sunday, 14 October, 2018 at the Lekki IMAX Cinemas, Lagos. Directed by award-winning filmmaker, Tope Oshin, the film tells the story of two teenage boys, Tolu Bajulaiye and Chidi Egwuonwu, who find themselves involved in a scandal and are forced to... Read More

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Nollywood

October 3, 2018

The future is female: the Nollywood Travel Film Festival to spotlight female directors at Glasgow

The Nollywood Travel Film Festival (NTFF) is an initiative that seeks to promote films by Nigerians living all over the world to new and existing global audiences with the aim of creating new market places for Nigerian cinema. Now in its second edition, the festival this time will beam a spotlight on female directors in... Read More

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September 4, 2018

Today’s Noisemakers: Ayo Sogunro, Farooq Kperogi, Tope Oshin, others

Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here’s our list from today: 1. ... Read More

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Did the governor of Bauchi just star in Tope Oshin’s “Up North”?

Everything will be revealed in a tweet, I promise. Or rather, a series of tweets. The past month has seen techpreneur Editi Effiong and founder of the digital company Anakle turning his Twitter into some kind of travelogue. Currently in Bauchi for the shooting of Tope Oshin’s upcoming film Up North, Effiong has provided interesting... Read More

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Here’s the scoop on Tope Oshin’s new film “Up North”, starring a popular Nigerian singer

Yesterday, Banky W’s Instagram was buzzing about the Tope Oshin’s new film Up North, which is currently being filmed. An inside source spotted the director and the crew on the Lekki/Ikoyi bridge, all wearing t-shirts with the Up North inscription. Days before that, Banky W posted a flurry of picturesque scenes from a Benue trip,... Read More

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Tope Oshin

Tope Oshin’s new film ‘We don’t live here anymore’ is taking on the LGBT YA canon

It is always a time for rejoicing whenever Tope Oshin has a new project out. Over the last two decades, young adult related entertainment has gone from fringe concern for artists, writers and filmmakers to one of the most lucrative subgenres that exist. It has made authors like J.K Rowling and Suzanne Collins into billionaires... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Francis Sule, LGBT, Tope Oshin, YA, Young Adult

We dont live here anymore

Here’s your first look at “We Don’t Live Here Anymore,” the queer film of the summer

African queer films are having a moment. Recently, Wanuri Kahiu’s Kenyan lesbian film Rafiki made history by becoming the first Kenyan film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. And in February, South African coming-of-age queer film Inxeba (The Wound) became available for streaming on Netflix. TIERs, the human rights agency producing queer films... Read More

Francis Sule, Tope Oshin

Film Review: New Money is awkward, clumsy

Some would argue that if ever there was such a thing as the Nigerian Dream, unmerited favour would come closest to capturing this lofty ideal. And why not? In Nigeria, equal opportunity is a mirage, inclusion is a pipe dream. And as for that often repeated line about finding strength in diversity? Surely only politicians... Read More

Reviews, The Cutting Floor, The Film Blog

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[The Film Blog] “New Money” is a modern update on the Cinderella Story

In New Money, we meet a handful of characters. But early on in the dramedy, director Tope Oshin brings Toun Odunmosun into focus. Living in semi-urban Lagos, Toun is just a regular girl doing regular things. She’s a lowly, average attendant at Shopper’s Delight, or “shop girl,” as she would later say in frustrated defiance,... Read More

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January 27, 2018

[The Film Blog] The teaser for Tope Oshin’s “New Money” is here and it’s all about the money

They say money makes the world go round and new money is even better. In the hands of Toun Odumosu (Jemima Osunde), a lowly shop attendant living a simple existence, her newly acquired wealth bequeathed from her estranged, well-to-do father and how her world drastically changes all sounds familiar. Cinderella-esque, even. And this is the... Read More

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September 12, 2017

Film Review: In Line is a weird mix of drama and suspense

by Wilfred Okiche The latest Nollywood-Ghollywood collaboration comes in the form of the dramatic thriller In Line from Firepix studio production. Debo (Uzor Arukwe) is an ex-convict recently sprung from jail, thanks to the contacts of his well- connected mother, Tina Mba, in yet another underwritten, under baked role. He goes back home to his... Read More

Reviews, The Film Blog

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December 13, 2016

The Film Blog: The Best of Nollywood Awards need to do some soul searching

The Best Of Nollywood Awards held last weekend. If you’re wondering why you didn’t hear much about it, it’s likely because the ceremony took place in Aba and the celebrities who would otherwise have flooded your instagram feeds with pictures likely decided they had better things to do than make the trip. We can’t say... Read More

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November 5, 2016

The Film Blog: We can’t wait for Amaka’s Kin

Amaka Igwe is resting in peace. If there is a fate greater than that for the soul of the woman who gave us Checkmate, Fuji House of Commotion and Violated, she is definitely doing that. Her impact on Nigerian film and television is immeasurable. And she is one of the few Nigerian heroes who gets something... Read More

Adeola Osunkojo, Amaka Igwe, Jade Osiberu, Michelle Bello, Mildred Okwo, Omobi Oboli, Stephanie Linus, The Film Blog, Tope Oshin

Nollywood A listers step out for ‘Hell or High Water’ premiere (PHOTOS)

The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) and Asurf Films Limited hosted an exclusive premiere for their highly anticipated short film Hell or High Water on Sunday, 5 June, 2016 at Genesis Deluxe Cinema, The Palms, Lekki, Lagos. The evening which was a mix of music, cocktails and movie screening, had Wole Ojo, Enyinna Nwigwe, Tope... Read More

Ashionye Raccah, Bolanle Olukanni, Daniel K Daniel, Denrele Edun, Enyinna Nwigwe, Hell or High Water, ifeanyi dike, Oscar Oyinsan, shade ladipo, Tope Oshin, Wole Ojo

August 21, 2015

First Photos: Bolanle Olukanni, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Tope Oshin, Kelechi Amadi-Obi, Tunde Sotimirin, Lola Shoneyin, KPeace, others step out in style for British Council’s UK/Nigeria 2015–16 season announcement

A large crowd of partners, sponsors and young entrepreneurs from Nigeria and the UK saw the British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, launch the year-long cultural season, UK/Nigeria 2015–16. UK/Nigeria 2015–16 is a major season of arts in Nigeria aimed at building new audiences, creating new collaborations and strengthening... Read More

Bolanle Olukanni, kelechi amadi-obi, Kemi Lala Akindoju, KPeace, Lola Shoneyin, Tope Oshin, Tunde Sotimirin, UK/NG 2015–16

Fantastic 4! Ego Ogbaro, Kemi ‘Lala’ Akindoju, Tope Oshin-Ogun & Ugoma Adegoke cover Taruwa magazine (LOOK)

by Akan Ido It’s been a great year for the hugely popular monthly gathering Taruwa, with exciting themes like ‘Love and Duets’ in February, outings with the Nigerian Idols finalists, a recognition award and of course the spectacular festival held last month. Today, Taruwa unveils the latest edition of its publication, Taruwa Magazine, tagged ‘The festival Edition’ after the... Read More

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