If you’ve seen any of the promotional videos for actress and film producer Funke Akindele’s upcoming film, Everybody Loves Jenifa, it’s not hard to conclude that she’s coming for her December money, per usual. As another year draws to an end, she’s outside again, gearing up to collect another highest-grossing box office plaque. Before you ask, “Who dash her?” Remember she’s broken the highest-grossing Nollywood film record three different times — Omo Ghetto (2020), Battle on Buka Street (2022) and A Tribe Called Judah (2023).
Anyway, from the look of her latest film promos, she’s likely to have another box-office banger. Since we also had time, we watched and ranked all her film promo videos.
Everybody Loves Jenifa
We have to start with the one that’s currently dominating our timeline. The promo videos for the upcoming Akindele film, Everybody Loves Jenifa, is a funny face-off between the casts of A Tribe Called Judah and the new film. For this new film, Akindele is pushing even further, offering back-to-back content of the cast talking about it. So far, she has delivered transition videos and a very viral video of the cast agitating, sort of.
Finding Me
The idea for the Finding Me promo video is playfulness. Some popular cast members got goofy and displayed their dance moves and baffs in the short transition videos. Who knew Dele Odule could carry body like that?
A Tribe Called Judah
As soon as a release date for A Tribe Called Judah (ATCJ) was announced last year, Akindele rolled out in colourful merch, decked with customised round necks, hats, and sneakers. There was also a lot of goofing around and dancing in the videos because, seriously, what’s an Aunty Funke promo video without some goofiness and dancing?
Battle of Buka Street
This film is about two rival local food sellers on the same street. For this, Akindele tapped into her inner Iya ‘Mala. Its promo videos starred Akindele and other actresses turning hot Amala and tearing meat to spark joy.
SHE Must Be Obeyed
For this, the goal was to flood YouTube with targeting advertising. She pulled a “Are you a stem professional…” advert times four. But with the Prime Video original series SHE Must Be Obeyed, it was less nuisance and more skip me if e sure for you.
Akorede
The promo for one of Akindele’s oldies, Akorede, was off social media as it was released in the golden age of Facebook. But this didn’t stop Akindele from blasting it everywhere. Remember those days when films were advertised in films and you had to watch tons of trailers before you finally watched the film? Akorede was one of the leaders of that charge. That year the trailer for Akorede with Akindele singing mo ti ko re de was in almost every film.
