Saudi Arabian family comedy Sattar, set against the world of freestyle wrestling, has continued its record-breaking run at home to become one of the top five highest-grossing movies in the territory ever.
Since its release on December 29, the film has sold 723,000 tickets for a box office gross of $9.2M to date.
Distributor Front Row Arabia said that the film now sits in the fifth slot in Saudi Arabia’s historic box office charts after Top Gun: Maverick ($22.6M), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($17.4M) and two Egyptian films, Bahebek ($15.7M) and Waafet Regala ($15.6M).
The success comes just five years after the lifting of Saudi Arabia’s 35-year cinema ban at the end of 2017, and bodes well for the country’s burgeoning local filmmaking scene.
Kuwaiti filmmaker Abdullah Al Arak directs a cast led by stars popular Saudi actor and stand-up comedian Ibrahim Al Hajjaj, best known for the hit action...
Since its release on December 29, the film has sold 723,000 tickets for a box office gross of $9.2M to date.
Distributor Front Row Arabia said that the film now sits in the fifth slot in Saudi Arabia’s historic box office charts after Top Gun: Maverick ($22.6M), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($17.4M) and two Egyptian films, Bahebek ($15.7M) and Waafet Regala ($15.6M).
The success comes just five years after the lifting of Saudi Arabia’s 35-year cinema ban at the end of 2017, and bodes well for the country’s burgeoning local filmmaking scene.
Kuwaiti filmmaker Abdullah Al Arak directs a cast led by stars popular Saudi actor and stand-up comedian Ibrahim Al Hajjaj, best known for the hit action...
- 3/2/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Saudi feelgood comedy-drama Sattar, which has enjoyed a record-breaking theatrical run at home, will hit U.K. cinemas next month in a release spearheaded by Mena region distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment.
Sattar, which is set in the world of freestyle wrestling, will be only the second Saudi Arabian film to be released theatrically in the U.K. after Haifa al-Mansour’s ground-breaking 2012 international breakout Wadjda.
The film will launch on around 10 U.K. screens in London and other major U.K. cities, including Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Leeds, on February 10.
Front Row, which has struck a direct distribution, revenue-sharing deal with Odeon Cinemas, is aiming to catch the wave of the film’s success in Saudi Arabia.
The target audience is Saudi Arabian and Gulf citizens living in the U.K. but Front Row expects it to appeal to a wider Arabic-speaking audience as well as local spectators without Mena ties.
Sattar, which is set in the world of freestyle wrestling, will be only the second Saudi Arabian film to be released theatrically in the U.K. after Haifa al-Mansour’s ground-breaking 2012 international breakout Wadjda.
The film will launch on around 10 U.K. screens in London and other major U.K. cities, including Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Leeds, on February 10.
Front Row, which has struck a direct distribution, revenue-sharing deal with Odeon Cinemas, is aiming to catch the wave of the film’s success in Saudi Arabia.
The target audience is Saudi Arabian and Gulf citizens living in the U.K. but Front Row expects it to appeal to a wider Arabic-speaking audience as well as local spectators without Mena ties.
- 1/25/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has signed a deal with Saudi Arabian production and financing group Telfaz11 for the latter to develop and produce a slate of eight films for the service.
The two companies previously collaborated on Six Windows In The Desert, a collection of six short films that were produced by Telfaz11.
The companies said the eight new films would be produced for both Arab and global audiences and will be made by “a band of unconventional storytellers who are passionate about combining narratives drawn from Arab culture with elements of comedy and humanity”.
Specific details of the projects were not disclosed but the first is aiming to debut in late 2021. Netflix will launch them globally.
“Great stories can come from anywhere and be loved everywhere. We are expanding our library of Saudi content and showcasing the beauty of Saudi storytelling by joining forces with its creators to produce authentic and intriguing...
The two companies previously collaborated on Six Windows In The Desert, a collection of six short films that were produced by Telfaz11.
The companies said the eight new films would be produced for both Arab and global audiences and will be made by “a band of unconventional storytellers who are passionate about combining narratives drawn from Arab culture with elements of comedy and humanity”.
Specific details of the projects were not disclosed but the first is aiming to debut in late 2021. Netflix will launch them globally.
“Great stories can come from anywhere and be loved everywhere. We are expanding our library of Saudi content and showcasing the beauty of Saudi storytelling by joining forces with its creators to produce authentic and intriguing...
- 11/12/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Riyadh-based Telfaz11 has been at the forefront of Saudi Arabia’s content revolution for more than a decade.
Netflix has struck a deal to produce eight feature films with Saudi entertainment group Telfaz11, in a move that marks a major breakthrough for the streaming platform’s drive to break into the Middle East.
Founded by Alaa Yousef Fadan, Ali Al Kalthami, and Ibrahim Al Khairallah around a decade ago, Riyadh-based Telfaz11 was at the forefront of Saudi Arabia’s YouTube youth content revolution in the early 2010s.
It gained international notoriety in 2013 with Hisham Fageeh’s viral videos such as No Woman,...
Netflix has struck a deal to produce eight feature films with Saudi entertainment group Telfaz11, in a move that marks a major breakthrough for the streaming platform’s drive to break into the Middle East.
Founded by Alaa Yousef Fadan, Ali Al Kalthami, and Ibrahim Al Khairallah around a decade ago, Riyadh-based Telfaz11 was at the forefront of Saudi Arabia’s YouTube youth content revolution in the early 2010s.
It gained international notoriety in 2013 with Hisham Fageeh’s viral videos such as No Woman,...
- 11/12/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
As it begins to ramps up production in the Middle East Netflix has announced a partnership with Saudi Arabian digital media studio Telfaz11 to produce eight new feature films.
The deal segues from the two companies’ previous collaboration on the short film collection “Six Windows in the Desert,” which was an “incredible success,” according to a Netflix statement.
The announcement follows the launch last week of Netflix’s most ambitious Arabic original series “Paranormal,” a supernatural drama directed by Egypt’s Amr Salama.
“We are expanding our library of Saudi content and showcasing the beauty of Saudi storytelling by joining forces with its
creators to produce authentic and intriguing stories that will resonate with both Arab and global audiences,” said Nuha El Tayeb, who is Netflix’s director of content acquisitions for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, in a statement.
“We hope that Telfaz’s work will offer...
The deal segues from the two companies’ previous collaboration on the short film collection “Six Windows in the Desert,” which was an “incredible success,” according to a Netflix statement.
The announcement follows the launch last week of Netflix’s most ambitious Arabic original series “Paranormal,” a supernatural drama directed by Egypt’s Amr Salama.
“We are expanding our library of Saudi content and showcasing the beauty of Saudi storytelling by joining forces with its
creators to produce authentic and intriguing stories that will resonate with both Arab and global audiences,” said Nuha El Tayeb, who is Netflix’s director of content acquisitions for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, in a statement.
“We hope that Telfaz’s work will offer...
- 11/12/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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