All Saudi Arabia articles
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NewsTerrorism drama ‘Red Path’ takes top awards at Red Sea film festival 2024
Further winners included ‘To A Land Unknown’, ‘Seeking Haven For Mr. Rambo’ and ‘Snow White’.
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NewsRed Sea Souk awards over $900,000 in industry prizes
Katia Jarjoura’s ‘Robbing Beirut’ took the largest prize, the $75,000 production award.
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NewsSaudi’s MBC Studios sets feature adaptation of Osamah Almuslim’s horror novel ‘Travellers’ Hell’
Rising Saudi filmmaker Hana Al-Omair is set to direct Traveller’s Hell
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NewsStampede Ventures’ thriller ‘Fourth Wall’, starring Emma Roberts, to shoot at Saudi's AlUla Studios
Production also marks a reset of the partnership between Saudi’s Film AlUla and Stampede Ventures
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Features‘Superboys Of Malegaon’ filmmakers: “We felt it had an opportunity outside of India”
”The material lends itself to a global audience,” says director Reema Kagti.
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NewsIndonesian feature sets up rare shoot in holy city of Mecca (exclusive)
Visual Media Studio is set to shoot ‘Assalamualaikum Baitullah’.
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NewsCannes head Thierry Fremaux: “If I do bad selections two years in a row, I will leave”
”I will say I am not connected anymore with the cinema of my times,” said Fremaux at Red Sea.
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News‘A Sudden Case Of Christmas’ makes major sales at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea (exclusive)
Phoenicia Pictures boss Ameer Fawaz says, ”It is a distinct choice to show a Christmas film at a festival in Saudi Arabia.”
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FeaturesIs Saudi Arabia’s box office boom over or set to rise again?
Saudi Arabia’s box office market has plateaued after enjoying huge growth when cinemas first reopened in 2018. Are the boom years over, or is this just a blip?
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NewsRed Sea title ‘The Last Ronin’ swipes key deals after premiere (exclusive)
Film heads to North America, Latin America and MENA among others.
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NewsYaqoub Alfarhan, Adwa Bader join Hana Al-Omair’s ‘Dancing On Fire’ (exclusive)
Based on bestselling Saudi novel ’Divers Of The Desert’ by Amal Al-Faran.
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NewsVisit Films sells across slate including Cannes, Toronto, Sundance titles (exclusive)
Numerous key territories sell on Sundance drama ‘Ghostlight’.
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Promotion“I don’t like being in the safe zone when it comes to content”: director Abdulaziz Almuzaini talks Saudi satire ‘Lail Nahar’
Muvi Cinemas financed and supported the film that is set for release on December 12.
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NewsMBC Studios, Telfaz11 forge partnership to “champion Saudi stories”
New partnership will support Saudi talent and aims to create diverse stories.
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NewsSaudi rom-com ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’ readies January shoot
Acclaimed Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy is on board the feature.
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NewsSaudi hit ‘Mandoob’ heads to India, Australia, Latin America (exclusive)
The film grossed over $7m following its Saudi release in December 2023.
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NewsTicket prices and Imax to the fore as Saudi exhibitor Muvi head sees bigger picture
Muvi has just opened its first Imax screen in Jeddah’s Mall of Arabia.
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FeaturesUK producers on filming in Saudi Arabia: ‘Infrastructure is beginning to emerge’
UK producers Georgie Paget and Thembisa Cochrane talks filming in Saudi Arabia for Ahd Kamel’s My Driver And I.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2024: Maria Bahrawi, actress (Saudi Arabia)
In the AlUla-shot Norah, Bahrawi plays an illiterate orphan from a remote Saudi Arabian village in the 1990s.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2024: Oumaima Barid, actress (Morocco)
Barid is enjoing a breakout moment after landing four lead roles in quick succession.