Kunle Afoloyan’s ‘Anikulapo’ becomes most watched movie on Netflix

Kunle Afoloyan’s ‘Anikulapo’ is officially the most watched movie on Netflix in Nigeria of 2022, According to streaming statistics site FlixPatrol.
The 2022 Nigerian epic fantasy film surpassed huge international projects like ‘RRR’ and ‘Adam Project’ to secure the top spot; a huge feat considering both movies were released in March while the Nigerian movie came out towards the end of the year.

This is hardly surprising considering that the Netflix original debuted to rave reviews and quickly became the most watched non-English film globally with a total of 8,730,000 global views within a few weeks.

From the data, it is clear that 2022 was a great year for Nollywood as the Nigerian audience consumed a lot of our local content with only four foreign titles making the top 10 list.

Pulse/O.O