The project, to be directed by Hana Al-Omair, is part of a partnership to bring the bestseller author's stories to the big and small screen. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor Set to be directed ...

LONDON — The Arab world’s biggest TV net is getting into the movie business. Execs at MBC, the first private Arab satcaster to launch in 1991 and still the region’s most popular, are unveiling ...

MBC Studios is developing a series adaptation of popular Saudi writer Osamah Almuslim’s best-selling debut horror novel Khawf (Fear). It is the second work by Almuslim to be adapted by the high-end ...

Popular Saudi Arabian actor and stand-up comic Ibrahim Al Hajjaj’s new comedy “Esaaf” (“Ambulance”) directed by British helmer Colin Teague (“Doctor Who,” “Torchwood”), is already set for a sequel ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

A lavish Arabic-language film titled “Sukkar,” that draws inspiration from U.S. writer Jean Webster’s epistolary novel “Daddy-Long-Legs” and is being touted as the Arab world’s first musical movie in ...

Zeinab Abu Alsamh discusses the first forays into major English-language Hollywood features by the regional networks giant: "We want to make up for all the time that we haven’t been producing." By ...

Saudi-owned MBC Group has officially opened its new headquarters in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh in a move that will boost its stated mission to serve as a driver to kickstart the kingdom’s ...