Collaboration Of Movie Stars Is For Business

Venus Films boss Abdul Salam Mumuni has set the records straight when he told Flexy on ETV`s Talkshowbiz that the collaboration between English movie makers aka glamour and Akan film makers aka Kumawood is purely to boost sales of movies on the market.

Though Abdul Salam Mumuni himself has denied it on several occasions that the glamour movies in the country were not selling, he could not hide the facts anymore when he was stretched beyond limits for his decision of putting together Kojo Nkansah Lilwyn and Jackie Appiah in one movie which seems to be the trend in the country as much as movie making is concerned. Read his response on the show.

    

“Now we have realized that the movie market does not support most of the glamour movies but the Akan people are still selling like hot cake. Because of that as a business person, I want to cut losses, so I thought it wise to combine Kojo Nkansah Lilwyn and Jackie Appiah to increase my sales. There is no other reason why we have decided to do that, but it is purely on business grounds” Abdul Salam said hurriedly whilst rushing to continue shooting on set.
    

If readers would recall, the subject of Akan movie makers feeling ostracized has come under strong criticism as there have been reports that the English film makers always feel superior than their Akan counterparts in the movie industry. It was in the wake of this that some Akan movie people decided to boycott the Ghana Movie Awards when they realized that their independent categories had been merged to their disadvantage at the just ended Ghana Movie Awards.
  

Based on this assertion, a non-harmful statement made by colleague actor Ecow- Smith Asante nearly sparked fire among actors in this country. Despite everything, it is an undeniable fact that our people in the Akan movie industry are still making more profits therefore their ability to shoot and produce more movies for the market. Out of this market flooding, the Film Producers Association of Ghana -FIPAG issued a directive to limit the number of movies released unto the market to forestall the decline of movie sales.
    

Whether it will work out or not is another story as Flex newspaper is gathering that a series of meetings to make this directive work does not seem to be ending anytime soon. A call to the Public Relations Officer of the Association Ola Michael confirmed this marathon meeting which does not seem to be ending soon.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    By  Elvis R Baidoo