RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it will allow movie theaters to open in the conservative kingdom next year, for the first time in more than 35 years, in the latest social ...

Will Smith is set to give a talk on the opening day of the sophomore edition of the Saudi Film Confex, taking place in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh between Oct. 9-12. The event, which will welcome ...

Last night, just before the New York premiere of Wadjda, the first-ever feature film to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, writer-director Haifaa al-Mansour told the crowd about her goals: “I tried to ...

Saudi Arabia's Roula Dakheelallah and Sudan's Mustafa Shehata talked about the Saudi writer-director-actress' movie about a rebellious girl and her chauffeur at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah. By ...

Rowan Athale’s biopic Giant, starring Amir El Masry as British-Yemeni boxing champion Prince Naseem ‘Naz’ Hamed, will open ...

The Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority has a plan to produce a big-budget UFC movie and Dana White appears to be on board. You would think that the Chairman of the GEA might have taken a ...

The kingdom's first Hollywood film screening in decades took place Wednesday. BELGRADE, Serbia -- Saudi Arabia broke a 35-year ban on movie theaters Wednesday night with a special showing of the ...

In the latest in a series of gestures toward modernization that would once have seemed improbable, Saudi Arabia announced Monday that it would allow commercial movie theaters to open for the first ...