The much awaited cinematic debut of The Audrey Silva Company, The Meeting, hits cinemas across Nigeria on November 23, the producers have revealed. The company also said that stars in the movie would be at different cinemas where the movie is showing for the first three days.
Mildred Okwo, Managing Director at TASC and Director of the movie, explained that the company is now satisfied with the quality of the production, the main reason why the theatrical release was suspended after the hugely successful premiere on October 19, 2012.
It would be recalled that both President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo sent high powered delegations to the premiere, which held at the Oriental Hotels, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Okwo informed that every effort has been put into seeing that The Meeting is presented to Nigerians with the highest possible quality of sound and pictures.
Silverbird Distribution Limited will distribute the movie, described as an “ambitious and amazing movie, which is a worthy representative of the new Nollywood,” by award winning novelist and poet, Toni Kan
Kan, in a review published in a number of Nigerian newspapers, further said of The Meeting: “The Meeting is in many ways a reflection of Nigeria. While the Minister’s “Waiting Room” redefines the term waiting room, it is on a larger scale symptomatic of Nigeria where red tape and officialdom have left us stuck in stasis. The film delivers a sucker punch when Ejura says to Makinde; “How did you think you could close a deal in Abuja in one day with a government minister?”
The Meeting is the kind of movie that makes us laugh just so it can stop us from crying.
The cast of characters is a Casting Director’s wet dream and Okwo employed it with effect.
The beauty of it all is that the Director manages to elevate this movie, which is touted as a romantic comedy, far beyond the normal Nollywood farce, which passes for comedy.
Nigerians will see a totally different Rita Dominic in The Meeting, which also stars Jide Kosoko, Kate Hensaw-Nuttal, Basorge Tariah, Nse Ikpe-Etim and Chinedu Ikedieze.
It introduces the duo of Femi Jacobs and Linda Ejiofor in leading roles.
A MORD Pictures production forTASC, The Meeting is produced by Rita Dominic and Mildred Okwo, written by Tunde Babalola.
The story sets in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, and revolves around the frustrations and eventual triumph of Makinde Esho (Femi Jacobs), a Lagos-based corporate executive.
It is a movie, which tells an authentic Nigerian story.
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