The United Arab Emirates' Dubai Interntional Film Festival is being revived following a 10-year hiatus, although not in the same format as the original event. Mona Ghanem Al Marri, Vice Chairperson and Managing Director of the Dubai Media Council and President of the Dubai Press Club, revealed…

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Rachid Bouchareb stepped into Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where the French Algerian director touched on the state of the global film business and said that if Netflix buys Warner Bros. Discovery it would be "very bad news" for cinema.  "Platforms tell people to stay in…

The Red Sea International Film Festival kicked off with the premiere of the film, Giant, a British-Yemeni boxing biopic directed by Rowan Athale, starring Amir El-Masry as Prince Naseem Hamed and Pierce Brosnan as his trainer, Brendan Ingle. The gala event was attended by Michael Caine, Juliette Binoche, Kirsten…

Lost Land, the first feature film shot entirely in the Rohingya language, has been awarded the Best Film Award at this year's Red Sea Film Festival. Directed by Japanese filmmaker Akio Fujimoto, Lost Land is described as an intimate portrait of two siblings fleeing persecution in…

British singer-songwriter, actress and producer Rita Ora stepped into the Red Sea International Film Festival’s Deadline Studio and discussed upcoming project Fyre Fest The Musical that she’s producing with Oscar-winning director and husband Taika Waititi, and also touched on reprising her role as…

Kartik Aaryan stepped into Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, this week where the Indian actor teased upcoming projects Naagzilla, which he is currently shooting, and Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri, which comes out later this month.  He described Naagzilla, which is directed…

One of Saudi Arabia's best-known creative agencies, Habbar, is getting into cinema. The Riyadh-based company has launched a new initiative bannered Habbar Film Marketing, aimed at connecting both local and international movies with Saudi audiences. Mohammed Al-Ansari, who is leading the new…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachid Bouchareb's upcoming feature film Reggane, exploring France's controversial nuclear tests in Algeria's Sahara Desert in the early 1960s, has sparked interest out of the U.S. and Asia. The Cohen Media Group and Singapore and Japan-based production company Kingyo Films are talks…

Tunisian-Egyptian actress Hend Sabry and Indian actress Alia Bhatt were honored at a Golden Globes gala dinner at the Red Sea Film Festival on Tuesday evening. It marked the Saudi Arabian film festival's first official collaboration with the Golden Globes. Sabry was feted with the Omar…

Actor Riz Ahmed took a brief pause from his jury duties at the Red Sea Film Festival to take part in an intriguing Q&A session this morning, where he discussed his career and what he described as the unique path he had to forge away from the UK industry to advance his career.  Ahmed told the…

Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani was among the big winners this evening at the Red Sea Film Festival's industry Souk Awards, with his project About Love & September Laws. The Souk awards provide support for projects at various stages of creation, including development, production, and…