The Wedding Party was announced earlier in the year as a blockbuster collaboration between the ELFIKE film collective, a formidable creative team that comprises Abudu’s EbonyLife films, Kene Mkparu’s Filmone, Inkblot productions and Koga Studios founded by the late Chris Jeyibo. If the former doesn’t happen because of the limited time frame,- only one day is left till the end of 2016, – then the latter is all but assured as The Wedding Party is proving to have legs and should play well into the new year, following in the cross over tradition of 2015’s Fifty, another huge production masterminded by Mo Abudu. With The Wedding Party still playing strong over the holiday period, it is now quite reasonable to expect that at the end of its run, the ensemble romantic comedy should eclipse AY Makun’s A Trip to Jamaica as both the highest grossing film of 2016 and the biggest money maker in Nollywood ever. Add to this, the previous total since the 16, December release, and the earnings hit North of 120million Naira. Mo Abudu, the media mogul who serves as one of the producers of The Wedding Party tied all of these incidences together when she posted on her Instagram page, box office returns of 21.5Million Naira on Boxing Day alone. Hell no, not with an eleven-month-old baby at home. Would she fancy a late night screening, to commence at 11pm, the attendant queried.
No such luck as The Wedding Party tickets were sold out for the day. To make it this time, Shola had to leave her toddler over at her parents. They had been hearing so much about the film. On 28, December, Shola, 28 and her friends headed to Filmhouse cinemas in Surulere hoping to finally catch a screening of The Wedding Party.