{"id":2187188,"date":"2025-12-04T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2187188"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:56:03","slug":"christmas-in-lagos-star-shalom-obiago-signs-with-vault-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/christmas-in-lagos-star-shalom-obiago-signs-with-vault-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Christmas In Lagos&#8217; Star Shalom Obiago Signs With Vault Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Nigerian-American actor and filmmaker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shalom-obiago\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shalom-obiago\" data-tag=\"shalom-obiago\">Shalom Obiago<\/a>, the breakout lead of Prime Video\u2019s original film <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/christmas-in-lagos\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christmas-in-lagos\" data-tag=\"christmas-in-lagos\">Christmas in Lagos<\/a><\/em>, has signed with Vault Entertainment for management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tObiago stars as Elo in<em> Christmas in Lago<\/em>s, the first original feature to emerge from Prime Video\u2019s inaugural overall filmmaker deal in Nigeria, after which Prime Video announced it would stop funding local original content in Africa and the Middle East. The film debuted globally last season, quickly climbing to No. 1 in Nigeria and charting in Prime Video\u2019s Top 10 in multiple territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film, released on December 20, 2023, held special meaning for Obiago, as it premiered just days before the anniversary of his father\u2019s passing. \u201cMy father, Sam Obiago, was an actor himself, and losing him was devastating,\u201d Obiago <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theatlantavoice.com\/shalom-obiago-christmas-in-lagos\/\" target=\"_blank\">shared in an interview with <em>The Atlanta Voice<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAfter he died, I dreamed of creating something connecting me to my roots.\u00a0<em>Christmas in Lagos<\/em>\u00a0became the realization of that dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKnown for his work across both Hollywood and Nollywood, Obiago has appeared in series including <em>Atlanta<\/em> on FX, <em>BMF<\/em> on Starz, <em>The Black Hamptons<\/em> on BET, and<em> P-Valley<\/em>. His lead performance in the short film <em>Don\u2019t Wipe Your Tears<\/em>, executive produced by John \u2018D.C. Young Fly\u2019 Whitfield, earned him a Best Actor nomination at the Oscar-qualifying BronzeLens Film Festival in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian-American actor and filmmaker Shalom Obiago, the breakout lead of Prime Video\u2019s original film Christmas in Lagos, has signed with Vault Entertainment for management. Obiago stars as Elo in Christmas in Lagos, the first original feature to emerge from Prime Video\u2019s inaugural overall filmmaker deal in Nigeria, after which Prime Video announced it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2187189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[422012,422013],"class_list":["post-2187188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-christmas-in-lagos","tag-shalom-obiago"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Christmas-In-Lagos-Star-Shalom-Obiago-Signs-With-Vault-Entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187190,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187188\/revisions\/2187190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}