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Cinemas were banned for 35 years [3] until the first cinema in Saudi Arabia opened on 18 April 2018 in Riyadh. Before cinemas were allowed to operate in Saudi Arabia, there were several attempts to introduce cinema in the country, beginning in the 1930s by Aramco employees. These attempts continued in the 1950s, 1970s, and throughout the first ...
LOS ANGELES/RIYADH, April 4 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's first cinema in more than 35 years will open on April 18 in Riyadh, the capital, the authorities said on Wednesday after agreeing with AMC ...
In late January 2023, General Entertainment Authority chairman Turki Al-Sheikh conducted a private inauguration ceremony of VIA Riyadh, which was attended by the country's Minister of Tourism Ahmed al-Kateeb, chairman of the board of directors of Saudi Journalists Association Khalid al-Malik and the Japanese ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Iwai Fumio.
In 2018, a 35-year ban on cinemas was lifted in Saudi Arabia as part of the country's broader modernization efforts overseen by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. [3] The Saudi Film Commission was founded as a branch of the Ministry of Culture in February 2020 to bolster the country's film industry.
The decades old cinema ban in Saudi Arabia ended yesterday with an historic screening of Marvel movie Black Panther in a brand new cinema facility in the capital Riyadh.
Vox Cinemas, owned by Dubai's Majid Al Futtaim [MAAFUM.UL], said on Thursday it had received a licence to operate cinemas in Saudi Arabia and would open a four-screen multiplex theatre in Riyadh ...
Between the 1960s and 1970s, however, this issue was, in general, solved and accepted by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. [2] In alliance with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman's vision of 2030, which calls to expand the artistic, cultural, and entertaining fields in the country, there opened the first cinema in Jeddah on 18 ...
Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority (GEA) has launched a new film fund called Big Time Investment to boost production of quality Arabic movies and announced a slate of Egyptian ...