I confirmed the news again from the popular entertainment blogger Linda Ikeji who gave another version of the news which I’m about to share right now.
According to Vanguard; some officials of movie marketers under the aegis of Film and Video Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria, FVPMAN, plans to blacklist Mercy Johnson Okojie,, in what they call, “ Withdrawing of service from her.”
They also went further to state their reasons for the ban. They accused Mercy Johnson of leaving the set or not even showing up for video shoot after she must have been paid. In another accusation, they said MJ was always giving them difficult conditions before she can feature in any movie.
Now this other news from the famous blogger who seems to have more details about Mercy Johnson’s bad market:
She reported that Mercy Johnson is currently the highest paid actress in Nollywood. She charges between N1.8million to N2m to feature in a movie. The others, like Ini and Funke charge between N700k to N1.2million.
For this reason, the actress has been blacklisted by the Nollywood Movie Marketers Association. The ban will not take effect immediately as Mercy has already signed up to do quite a number of movies.
She returned on Thursday from a movie location, and will be on the set of another movie from tomorrow, Sunday. She will be traveling out of Nigeria sometime this month and when she returns, will be on another movie set…so she’s basically booked till the end of the year.
The idea now is not to ban her after all her current contracts end. So the ban won’t take effect until at least January 2014. This is not the first time the movie marketers association will be placing bans on actors . They did this a few years ago when quite a number of actors including RMD, Genevieve Nnaji, Ramsey Noah, Emeka Ike, and Jim Iyke were blacklisted.
What will now become of Mercy Johnson when the ban takes effect? To be a star is no joke o
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