JEDDAH (Saudi Arabia), Jan 23 (APP): First movie theatre in Jeddah will start on 28th January.
The Jeddah governorate will have as many as 65 cinema screens over the coming period, of which three will be opened in the first and fourth quarters of 2019, two movie theaters will be opened in the second quarter, next year.
This was informed by Hamza Al-Ghobaishi, director of the General Commission for Audiovisual Media in the Makkah region during a reception with Prince Badr Bin Sultan, deputy emir of Makkah.
It is worth mentioning here that Cinemas had been banned for 35 years until the first cinema in the Kingdom opened on April 18, 2018, in Riyadh.
In his briefing, Al-Ghobaishi briefed the deputy emir about the activities of the commission and its future plans.
The commission’s plans include opening 102 screens in Jeddah and seven in Taif.
After a hiatus of over three decades, the Kingdom’s first movie theaters opened in Riyadh in April 2018 as part of Vision 2030 to open up more recreational facilities across the Kingdom.
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