Nollywood’s “Dark Age” is Over: New Distribution Model Offers 80% Profits, 100% Rights Retention, 0% Gatekeepers
“Stop Counting Views, Start Counting Money”: eTheater CEO God'sgift Irabor Partners with Indian Tech Powerhouse to Unveil the Electronic Box Office and Return Power to the Architects of Cinema. The Nigerian film industry, currently producing thousands of titles annually, is entering what industry insiders are calling its “Dark Age” of distribution. Despite massive global demand, filmmakers are seeing their margins decimated by traditional cinema cuts, tax complexities, and flat-fee streaming deals that fail to reward success. Today, eTheater is announcing a structural revolution: the Electronic Theater™ (eTheater). A new category of digital distribution, eTheater is designed to give filmmakers a direct-to-audience pipeline, bypassing the traditional gatekeepers that have historically controlled the power and the profits of African cinema. “Distribution is neutral; whoever controls it controls power,” says the CEO of eTheater. “Filmmakers take the biggest risk and currently own the ...