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I saw an Instagram post yesterday morning from Fatherland Productions — the Lagos-based company that Akinola Davies Jr. and his brother Wale run with producer Funmbi Ogunbanwo — reminding American audiences that "My Father's Shadow" is still in US theaters and encouraging them to go see it. I realized I hadn't actually looked at the film's box office numbers since it opened in the UK and US about five weeks ago. Given everything that preceded those releases — first Nigerian film in Cannes Official Selection, MUBI acquiring the rights before the festival even opened, the Caméra d'Or Special Mention, the BAFTA, the Gotham nods, the 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, the UK Oscar submission — I figured it was time to check in. So I pulled up Box Office Mojo (BOM) and The Numbers. Why? They're the two most reliable public sources for tracking theatrical box office data in one place and in real time — short of paying for Comscore access, digging through territory-specific institutional sources like France's CNC or Unifrance, or waiting for annual databases like those from the European Audiovisual Observatory to catch up. As of today, "My Father's Shadow" has earned $99,678 in the US and $374,448 in the UK, for a "worldwide" total of $474,126. I place "worldwide" in quotes because it's platform standard for BOM and The Numbers, but there is nothing "worldwide" about those figures. The film opened in Nigeria on September 19, 2025, via FilmOne Entertainment, and ran for 4 weeks across commercial cinema chains — Filmhouse, Silverbird, Genesis — in at least 15 states. Ghana came in at week two through Silverbird in Accra, same closing week.
