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During the cinema ban, the only public theater in Saudi Arabia was a single IMAX cinema located in Khobar at the Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Science and Technology Center. [14] The IMAX cinema, in operation since 2005, [15] shows only educational films.
The first known cinema in Jordan was the Petra Cinema in 1935. However, it is said that there was a cinema called 'Abu Siyah' in the 1920s and one of the first films it screened were Charlie Chaplin's silent films. [36] As opposed to Egypt and Lebanon, Jordan joined the film industry much later, with their first films being released in the 1950s.
The center has a museum, library, cinema, theater, and exhibition halls. [6] It was designed by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta. [7] The center has been listed in Time magazine as one of the world's top 100 places to visit [1] [8] and attracted one million visitors in 2019. [9]
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A screening of Shrek the Third at the Vispathè cinema, in Campi Bisenzio, Italy IMAX at Gading XXI, North Jakarta (second largest IMAX in Indonesia) This is a list of movie theater chains across the world. [1] [2] The chains of movie theaters are listed alphabetically by continent and then by country.
Arab cinema has explored many topics from politics, colonialism, tradition, modernity and social taboos. [44] It has also attempted to escape from its earlier tendency to mimic and rely on Western film styles. [44] In fact, colonization did not only influence Arab films, but it also had an impact on Arab movie theaters. [2]
The General Entertainment Authority (GEA) (Arabic: الهيئة العامة للترفيه, romanized: Al-Hayʾah al-ʿĀmmah li-t-Tarfīh), formerly the General Authority for Entertainment (GAE), [1] is a government department in Saudi Arabia that regulates the entertainment industry of the country.
The cinema of Lebanon, according to film critic and historian Roy Armes, is the only other cinema in the Arabic-speaking region, beside Egypt's, that could amount to a national cinema. [7] Cinema in Lebanon has been in existence since the 1920s, [ 8 ] and the country has produced more than 500 films.