Niyi Akinmolayan will return to cinemas in the final quarter of 2025 with a new film. While no title, cast, or storyline has been revealed yet, the confirmation alone marks one of the year’s most anticipated announcements.
The filmmaker has been at the center of several of Nollywood’s defining conversations this year. His family drama ‘My Mother Is a Witch’ crossed the ₦100 million mark, proving once again that family-orientated stories can deliver box office success. Then, he proposed an ad-supported cinema screening model as an attempt to rethink distribution in a challenging market.
Through Anthill Studios, Akinmolayan also continued developing his OneTake app, an audition and script platform that has become an active space for actors, writers, and casting professionals. Just months ago, Omotoke Solarin won the app’s first script challenge, positioning OneTake as a pipeline for emerging voices.
Akinmolayan’s sustained output, switching between comedies, thrillers, and fantasy experiments, has made him one of Nollywood’s most daring filmmakers. His career has been defined as much by high-profile risks (Kajola, his 2009 sci-fi misfire) as by commercial wins (Prophetess, The Arbitration, The Wedding Party 2).
If he decides to go with a December release, it would mark a first for Anthill Studios, which has yet to launch a project in that highly competitive window.
While we await an official announcement in the coming weeks, for now, audiences can circle Q4 as the period when Niyi Akinmolayan makes his next big swing.
