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Saudi Arabia to open first cinema after those ‘Emoji Movie’ screenings

sudshr47 April 5, 2018

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Saudi Arabia’s first permanent cinema is coming.

Following the country’s recent lifting of a 35-year-old cinema ban, temporary local theatres popped up with showings of The Emoji Movie (of all films) in January.

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture and Information announced that U.S. chain AMC has won the country’s first cinema operating license.

AMC, the world’s largest movie exhibitor, plans to open the country’s first permanent cinema on April 18 in the capital of Riyadh. The kingdom could be home to nearly 350 cinemas, with over 2,500 screens, by 2030. Read more…

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SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia plan to spend $200 billion building the world’s biggest solar power plant

sudshr47 March 29, 2018

SoftBank Group Corp., known for splashy deals involving billions of dollars (see: its Vision Fund and investments in Uber and Didi), has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia to build a $200 billion solar power plant. Expected to reach its full capacity of 200 gigawatts by 2030, the development will be the largest […]

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The U.S. secretary of state was fired. On Twitter.

sudshr47 March 13, 2018

President Donald Trump just fired his embattled secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, via Twitter this morning, replacing him with former Tea Party Congressman and current Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo. Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson […]

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Saudi Arabia just lifted its cinema ban, and well, the movie choice was interesting

sudshr47 January 16, 2018

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Saudi Arabia has just lifted a 35-year-old ban on cinemas, and picked an, uh, interesting movie for the first screening.

Ready? The Emoji Movie. Yep.

The very first film hitting cinema screens in three and a half decades was 2017’s animated feature about a city populated by talking emojis. It’s currently sitting at 9 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — although, granted, it has a 39 percent audience score. And it’s targeted at children.

But hey, let’s celebrate the fact that it was shown at all.

The conservative kingdom’s Ministry of Culture and Information agreed to issue licenses for cinemas on Dec. 11, 2017. According to Reuters, the country’s first permanent theatres could open as early as March 2018, and the authorities are sponsoring temporary cinemas for now — one, in Jeddah’s cultural hall, apparently has a popcorn machine. Films will be censored to adhere to the “moral values” of the kingdom — exactly what these censored films look like remains to be seen. Read more…

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Saudi Arabia’s TechUtopia Neom will have to reinvent the rules to succeed

sudshr47 December 24, 2017

 Saudi Arabia’s legal environment is currently built for an economy that no longer exists, and a social world that most of the planet has left behind. The dream of Neom should be for a bridge to the legal world that can sustain a better life for all Saudis, and a case study of how a reinvented legal infrastructure – propelled by new technology – can be the capstone for a… Read More

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Saudi Arabia will open cinemas for the first time in 35 years

sudshr47 December 11, 2017

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Saudi Arabia is taking yet another step in the direction of sweeping social and economic reforms. 

After allowing women to drive in June 2018 and letting them into sport stadiums, the kingdom’s ministry of information and culture announced that cinemas will open from early 2018, for the first time since the 1980s — more than 35 years ago. 

لتحفيز النمو والتنوّع الاقتصادي عبر تطوير قطاعي الثقافة والترفيه، نبارك لوزارة الثقافة والإعلام @moci_ksa الموافقة على إصدار تراخيص دور #السينما_في_السعوديهhttps://t.co/aBoOBhZKV6

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