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Vue International, one of the world's leading exhibitors, is delaying plans to open 30 multiplexes in Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Jamal Khashoggi murder, Deadline has confirmed. Earlier this month, Deadline sources said multiple cinema chains were putting their plans on hold until they had more clarity on the…

The website for Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative was shut down today after hackers altered an image of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to make it appear he was about to behead a kneeling Jamal Khashoggi. See the hacked image below. Nicknamed “Davos in the desert,” the summit, set to begin Tuesday in…

Saudi Arabia has officially declared that public movie theaters will return to the kingdom for the first time in more than 30 years. The move had been expected. Deadline reported last month that an initiative was afoot to build and open cinemas after being a focus of the Future Investment Initiative conference held in…

EXCLUSIVE: Saudi Arabia is getting serious about going back to the movies. The kingdom is in the early stages of an initiative to build and open cinemas after more than 30 years of no public screens. The idea was mooted earlier this year by Ahmed Al-Khatib, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, and was one…