The CEO is an exciting project – Kunle Afolayan

Kunle Afolayan has said that his new film, The CEO, is an exciting project. He made the declaration at the media screening of the motion picture expected to premiere onboard an Air France flight on June 1.
“A truly pan-African film that boasts a stellar cast drawn from across Africa, the movie will change the course of filmmaking in Africa, while undoubtedly and truly putting Africa on the global cinematic map,” Afolayan stated.
The media event took place on May 11 in conjunction with Africa Magic where release dates and other plans for the highly anticipated pan-African thriller were announced.
The CEO will be exclusively screened on June 1 before a select audience onboard an Air France flight from Lagos to Paris, in a first of its kind in-flight premiere.
Set on a beautiful beach resort on the outskirts of Lagos, The CEO follows five top executives from across Africa who are dispatched on a one-week leadership retreat by a multinational telecommunications firm to determine who gets selected as the new CEO. Things go awry when, one after another, the executives are eliminated in sudden death circumstances, with fingers pointing at the last two executives as prime suspects.
Director, M-Net West Africa, Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu, said at the event that The CEO promises to be unlike anything ever seen from Africa.
“We are familiar with the stellar work that Kunle Afolayan does with his Golden Effects company and we are therefore more than excited to jump onboard The CEO project right from its inception. This partnership is in furtherance of our continued drive to support Nigerian and African cinema by investing in people, ideas and talents, and we can’t wait for fans and lovers of good cinema to watch this movie.”
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and entertainer from Benin Republic, Angelique Kidjo; Haitian actor and model, Jimmy Jean-Louis; Nigerian actor, Wale Ojo; French-Ivorian actress and model, Aurelie Eliam; South African actor and presenter, Nicolaos Panagiotopoulos; Nigerian actress, Kemi Lala Akindoju; Moroccan star, Fatim Layachi; Kenyan actor, Peter King; Nigerian actress, Hilda Dokubo as well as Nigerian singer, Adekunle Gold, and Moroccan artiste, Ahmed Soultan, are in the cast list.
The movie comes to Lagos on July 10 with a grand premiere. On July 15, Silverbird Cinemas will release the movie all over Nigeria and Silverbird Ghana.