Marketers ban Mercy Johnson for being too expensive

Posted by: b3rrilyn in Celebrity News Nov 3, 2013

Mercy Johnson is currently the highest paid actress in Nollywood. She charges between N1.8 million 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

But why ban her, movie makers who can afford her should go for her. That’s why we have A list actors.