Lagos

=== Film ===
[[File:Silverbird Galleria Cinemas.jpg|thumb|[[Silverbird Galleria]] cinema in Lagos]]
The Surulere district is the centre of the Nigerian film industry, commonly referred to as Nollywood. Lagos itself is the location and setting for many films. The city is featured in domestic and foreign feature film productions. Many films are shot in the Festac area of Lagos, which also hosted the World Festival of Black Arts.<ref name="NOLLYWOOD">{{cite web |title=Yoruba Travelling Theatre & Video Film |url=http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol4no5/4.5Nollywood.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513083137/http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol4no5/4.5Nollywood.pdf |archive-date=13 May 2012 |access-date=4 April 2012}}</ref> The 2016 film "[[Captain America: Civil War]]" contains a scene set in Lagos.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Du |first=Katherine |date=2016-05-05 |title='Captain America' Is Trending In Nigeria, But You Might Be Surprised Why |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/05/05/476889176/captain-america-is-trending-in-nigeria-but-you-might-be-surprised-why |url-status=live |access-date=2022-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226220437/https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/05/05/476889176/captain-america-is-trending-in-nigeria-but-you-might-be-surprised-why |archive-date=26 December 2022}}</ref> The Spanish police series "La unidad" (2020 - 2023), the British drama "The last tree" (2019) and the US-Spanish drama "The Way, Chapter 2" with [[Martin Sheen]] (2023 still in development) also use Lagos as a filming location. The film "[[93 Days|93 days]]" with [[Danny Glover]] is a somewhat melodramatic but fact-based account of the [[Ebola in Nigeria|Ebola outbreak in Lagos in 2014]] and was filmed at original locations.

Since the success of the Nigerian thriller "The Figurine", Nigerian film has increasingly focused on high-quality productions that are also commercially successful. This in turn has led to ever new records in box office takings in Nigeria (2009: "The Figurine", 2013: "Half of a Yellow Sun", 2016: "The Wedding Party").<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ademola |first=Bisi |date=2023-06-20 |title=Nollywood: Blockbusters To Streaming Success {{!}} African Folder |url=https://africanfolder.com/nollywood-streaming-success/ |access-date=2023-06-28 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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