Dr. Bello Scheduled To Debut in US Theaters
Thursday, February 21, 2013Omoba
Tony Abulu’s feature film, Dr Bello, is
scheduled to debut in US theaters on 22 February. This is the first Nigerian movie to be released widely in US cinemas.
The big-budget movie, by Nigerian standards, is said to have cost a whopping
N150 million ($1 million) and those involved hope it will be the first of many
of its kind to come from Nigeria and show in American theatres.
The movie stars a mix of American and Nigerian actors and actresses, from
Hollywood’s Isaiah Washington, Vivica A Fox, Jimmy Jean-Louis to Nollywood’s
Genevieve Nnaji and Stephanie Okereke.
According to the producer and writer of the movie Tony Abulu, Dr Bello will
create a platform for other Nigerian movies to sell in the US market.
He said: "the only catch is that they have to be very well produced and they have to be targeted to an American audience, not all the Nigerian movies can do it. There will be a select group of Nigerian movies that can come through that channel. We have very good film makers in Nigeria and I can account for at least about 25 of them that I think have the capacity and capability to make such films."
While hoping the movie will explore the foreign exchange potentials that abound
in the US film industry, Abulu said the production of the film was supported by
the Federal Government’s $200 million intervention fund, adding that an
endowment fund was still needed to boost activities of the entertainment
industry.
The film will open at AMC theatres in New York, New Jersey Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington DC, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Dallas, Miami,
Jacksonville, Columbus, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles.
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