Super Story producer cries out over piracy

Wale Adenuga, chairman of Wale Adenuga Production (WAP) says film producers can beat pirates at their game by first taking their products to cinema houses, thereby making their money before putting the films on video for homes and television from where pirates usually duplicate them.

He told Vanguard, that most cinemas around the country now are too expensive, and called on government to help in fighting piracy by building affordable cinemas in local government areas around the country to make it easily accessible to more people.

Adenuga is a former cartoonist/publisher, and currently a producer of TV series like Super story, Nnena and friends, This Life and Papa Ajasco among others.

He said, “Cinema houses should be so close to the people that you just take a light walk there to watch films. So, by this, if a producer produces his film, all he needs is to take it to the cinema houses across the state, close to the people and show it.

“Again, government can support the producers by banning the sale of home videos for six months or one year within which the producers can show their new films at the cinemas across the country. Indians and Americans film producers do not produce films every month like we do here. They may not even produce a film in a year. Yet they are more recognised than Nigeria when it comes to film-making and entertainment”.

He also lamented, that “Our own films and video cannot qualify for awards except where they accept videos, yet we roll out films every time. Although, our producers have started producing high grade videos that can pass for cinemas but a lot still needs to be done to improve the quality.”

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