Lionheart: Nollywood Struck Dumb As Genevieve Nnaji Breaks Records, Stereotypes

Life is in phases and men in sizes” is a saying that must be retooled and applied to success. 

Success most certainly comes in phases and in sizes. For example, the success of Genevieve Nnaji’s movie, “Lionheart” has the phase and size that has absolutely stripped words out of the entire movie industry in Nigeria known as Nollywood, many an actor are beyond flabbergasted. When the ELFIKE group’s first sequel production, Wedding Party II, smashed box office records of highest grossing Nigerian movie of all time and the highest ever global box office for a Nigerian movie, Nollywood contained the frequent spasms of the success.

N500 million in sales was an outstanding feat, the size of which worthy words were easily found to help in describing and celebrating.

But in ‘Lionheart’, the first Nigerian film to be bought by Netflix and the first movie to produce Nollywood’s first billionaire, Genevieve Nnaji left most of her colleagues speechless.