
Deadline Hollywood - 2 hours 56 min ago
Saudi creative studio Telfaz11 and music platform MDLBEAST unveiled a strategic partnership on the fringes of the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah on Monday. The agreement unites two of the hippest entertainment brands to have emerged out of Saudi Arabia in the wake of its lifting in 2017 of a 35-year-ban on cinema and […]...

Deadline Hollywood - 5 hours 20 min ago
Paramount's last and best offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, one that it took hostile today, includes funding from the Public Investment Fund (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), L'imad Holding Company PJSC (Abu Dhabi)w, Qatar Investment Authority (Qatar) and Affinity Partners, the investment fund of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Abu Dhabi-based Lunate and Qatar’s sovereign […]...

The Independent - 6 hours 41 min ago
Jared Kushner's Affinity Capital, along with the sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, have agreed to forgo any governance rights including board representation associated with their non-voting equity investments,' according to Monday's regulatory filing.

Deadline Hollywood - 7 hours 36 min ago
Hijra is a film defined by its artistic precision and sense of place and it's because of these standout qualities that it was selected as Saudi Arabia's submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. Its narrative begins quietly, tracing the bonds between a grandmother (Khayriya Nazmi) and her two granddaughters (Lamar Faden […]...

The Onion - 7 hours 36 min ago
Hollywood is increasingly looking to Saudi Arabia for financing as other sources of money have dried up in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, though the kingdom's controversial human rights record makes the relationship potentially problematic. What do you think? The post Hollywood Films Increasingly Funded By Saudi Arabia appeared first on The Onion .

PC Gamer - 7 hours 51 min ago
The Paramount bid is also supported by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, so that's probably not great for Netflix's ambitions.

Yard Barker - 7 hours 59 min ago
Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar look set to feature at the 2026 WWE Royal Rumble PLE, which takes place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on January 31st, 2026. The Rumble will be WWE's first PLE of the year and kickstart the Road to WrestleMania 42.

Yard Barker - 10 hours 2 min ago
WWE released a new poster for the Royal Rumble 2026, which will take place in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh in the leadup to WrestleMania 42 It features top male...

ESPN - 10 hours 7 min ago
One of the world's best players, Mohamed Salah looks set to leave Liverpool soon after venting his frustration at being benched. But what does the future hold for him?...

Variety - 11 hours 49 min ago
Saudi studio Telefaz11, the groundbreaking label behind hit dark comedy "Mandoob" and burgeoning music entertainment platform Mdlbeast which organizes Saudi's popular Soundstorm music festival have forged a partnership to collaborate on music licensing across Telfaz11's upcoming slate of feature films and original productions. The partnership will see Telfaz11 which is at the Red […]...

Deadline Hollywood - 12 hours 44 min ago
Deadline Studio at the Red Sea International Film Festival 2025 will host talent from December 4 – December 8 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Attendees who had their portraits taken at the studio were Sean Baker, Queen Latifah, Naomie Harris, Dakota Johnson, Natasha Lyonne, Daniel Kaluuya, Amir El-Masry, Giancarlo Esposito and more. RELATED: Red Sea Film Festival […]...

CNBC - 16 hours 36 min ago
The UAE and Saudi Arabia have this year launched multibillion-dollar initiatives to build cloud, data centers and other AI infrastructure.

The Guardian - 17 hours 43 min ago
STC troops now control all eight governorates, a major setback for Emirates' regional rival Saudi Arabia The United Arab Emirates-backed military leadership in South Yemen has seized power across the whole of the south of the country, a move that opens up the possibility that the South will declare independence and revert Yemen to being two states for the first time since 1960. As many as 10,000 troops from the Southern Transitional Council (STC) poured into the oil-rich Hadramaut governorate...