Don't compare Nollywood with Hollywood -Akin-Tijani Balogun

Movie producer and director, Akin-Tijani Balogun, has said that it’s unfair to compare Nollywood to Hollywood. He made the statement when E-News asked him his financial status, considering that American movie producer-directors like Steven Spielberg and James Cameron are billionaires. Replying, he said, “If you look at the financial angle, that juxtaposition, that analogy you made, of comparing America to Nigeria is farfetched. The kind of marketing structure they have over there is much more different when you look at the structure of our own industry. Let me just say we are living the Nigerian way. What we are doing at least enables us to live and live well in Nigeria. Of course we know that if we do it outside, we’ll make much more.” And speaking on his plans, he said, “My own plan is to have a film village, a place that’s structured, designed to be a film village for complete productions, because movie is just one out of the several things we do. So I want to have a film village, a place where you can shoot a game show, a commercial, anything that goes on the screen.”