Silverbird Distribution has reacted to a story
published by an online publication about a movie, Silence, running at the
cinemas presently.
According to Mr Ayotunde Bababunmi, Head of
Production, Silverbird, "We wish to use this opportunity to tell film
lovers to disregard the story as the movie is doing well across all our
cinemas. Contrary to the insinuations and obvious cinematic illiteracy of
the writer of the story, there are processes for pulling out movies and Silence
has not had a single issue with us. The movie has never been shown to an empty
hall neither has any movie buff that has seen it raised any eyebrows. We
therefore wonder where the writer got his information from."
Further, Bababunmi said, "It is absolutely
difficult for a bad movie to pass all the processes that we subject movies to
before they are put in the cinema. It is a thorough process and I am ashamed
that someone can go to that level to lie. It is horrible when journalists
try to pull Nollywood down with such falsehood. Silence is still running
and feelers from all our screens across Nigeria is that the movie is doing
well."
Produced by talented actress, Iyabo Ojo, Silence
stars Joseph Benjamin, Doris Simeon, Fathia Balogun and Priscilla (Iyabo's
daughter) among others. It was Directed by Alex Mouth and the movie won two
awards; Best Kid Actress and Movie of the Year at the 2014 Best of Nollywood
Awards held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
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