Maestro's Media: OBI EMELONYE DELIVERS LAST FLIGHT TO ABUJA

The award winning director and producer of one of the highest grossing Nollywood movies of 2011, The Mirror Boy, Obi Emenloye is back in the news with new flick, Last Flight to Abuja.

After the critical acclaimed and commercial success of The Mirror Boy, Obi Emelonye who won the Creative Person of the Year Award by The Sun Newspaper embarked on the Last Flight To Abuja project, a movie which focused on the ills of our Aviation industry.

Fans’ favourite, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, the very firm, Jim Iyke, Hollywood and Nigerian actor, Hakeem Kae Kazeem, Jide Kosoko, Ali Nuhu, Anthony Monjaro, Celine Loader, Uru Eke and a host of others took part in the movie that has already opened in the UK cinemas.

The movie recently premiered at the Troxy Theater in London, with star actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Jim Iyke and others in attendance; the London premiere was dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 3^rd air crashes with the name on the manifest replacing the end credit of the movie.

In a first of its kind in Nollywood, Last Flight to Abuja reveals extensively, the daring mid-air difficulties that stare most Nigerian commercial passengers in the face and how in this instance the fictitious Flamingo Airways plane is forced to make an emergency landing which leads to very devastating consequences.

The movie will premiere on Friday, August 3 in Genesis Deluxe Cinema, Lekki, and Lagos and will also be in cinemas across Nigeria on the same day.

The premiere is proudly sponsored by Diamond Bank.

Synopsis: A set of everyday Nigerian travellers’ board the last Flamingo Airways flight scheduled to fly from Lagos to Abuja on a fateful Friday night in 2006. The plane cruises at 30,000 feet, tranquil and on schedule. But like a bolt out of the blue, through a mixture of human error, technical failure and bad luck, the plane rapidly develops major faults that send it teetering on the brink of disaster. As the pilots fight with the controls of the stricken plane, a series of flashbacks unravel the twists, turns and leaps of fate that put each passenger on the fateful flight. Young lovers, an elderly couple, a corporate party, a sportsman on the threshold of greatness; all the passengers are caught up in the nightmare scenario and sense the final moments of their lives approaching.

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