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22.05.2022 - 08:33 / variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLola Arabia and Dubai’s Charisma Group are readying Agustí Villaronga’s “Arabian Aroma” and Pau Miró’s “Lost Symphony,” the first two titles in a 12-pic production alliance unveiled during the Berlin. FestivalBoth movies are in pre-production, budgeted around $6 million and feature women “who passionately set themselves on a mission,” the partners announced.
The films will be in English and Arabic, and are scheduled to roll around fall 2022. They target both international audiences and, as their local market, the Gulf states.Reteaming Lola Arabia head Andrés Vicente Gómez and the two main creatives behind “Born a King,” a big period drama which scored heavily at Saudi Arabian cinema theaters, “Arabian Aroma” is penned by British scriptwriter Henry Fitzherbert.
It turns on Virginia, a British perfumer in her 70s who has lost her sense of smell. She sets out with her assistant, Basmah, a twentysomething Saudi, on a quest to follow the footsteps of travel writer Barbara Toy, who travelled the ancient Incense Route in the 1960s.
It proves life changing,The film will shoot in London and along the Red Sea coast, taking in many landscapes and rich archaeological sites from the Gulf region unknown even to locals, Charisma and Lola announced Sunday.“Lost Symphony,” also written by Spanish playwright Miró, follows Mariam, a Spanish cellist, who arrives in Jeddah to lead the first female orchestra in Saudi Arabia. The dramatic comedy will shoot mainly in Jeddah and Jordan.The United Arab Emirates label of Oscar-winning Spanish producer Gómez (“Belle Epoque”), Lola Arabia and Charisma, producer of “Manahi,” the first Saudi movie to be shown in public, aim to make movies in the $2
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Gatekeep queen. Queen Elizabeth banned Lilibet photos from being taken. The British monarch met with her great-granddaughter during her Platinum Jubilee. However, she forbid photos of her and her namesake together.
Lulu Wilson (Modern Love) is set to return for Becky 2: The Wrath of Becky, a sequel to Quiver Distribution’s 2020 horror-thriller Becky, which will also star Seann William Scott (Welcome To Flatch).
K.J. Yossman Starz has set a premiere date and first trailer for their upcoming three-part documentary series about socialite turned sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.The All3Media-produced “Who is Ghilaine Maxwell?” will bow on Friday, June 24 at midnight on Starz’s app and on-demand platforms.
Celebrating. New photos have given us a sneak peek of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Lilibet birthday presents. The couple and their two kids, Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, landed in Santa Barbara, after the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on June 5, 2022, and were spotted unloading a few precious gifts from across the pond.
video has garnered 2.7 million views in under two hours since he shared it on the platform.The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star had joined TikTok Tuesday and racked up 4.5 million loyal followers.Set to Love Joys’ “Stranger,” his clip thanked followers for their support during his contentious defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.On both Instagram and TikTok, he wrote alongside his post: “To all of my most treasured, loyal and unwavering supporters. We’ve been everywhere together, we have seen everything together.”“We have walked the same road together,” the Kentucky native went on. “We did the right thing together, all because you cared.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentBBC Studios and Dubai-based MBC Studios have teamed on the first Arabic-language adaptation of “The Office.” Titled “Al Maktab,” the Arabic redo of the groundbreaking BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning British comedy series will be set in Saudi Arabia.Egypt’s Hisham Fathi (“Ending So Gently”) will direct with Italy’s Alessandro Martella serving a director of photography and Ryad-based AFLAM Productions’ Shadi Mcdad handling line producer duties.Cameras are set to roll in June on this MBC Studios original on which the BBC Studios international production team, who have licensed the format, will also have input. The plan is for the twenty-episode show to air on MBC’s linear TV channels, and stream on its Shahid VIP streaming platform later this year.
Queen Elizabeth II is being honoured by literal history.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSaudi Arabia’s rapidly expanding Telfaz11 Studios is teaming up with France’s Easy Riders Films to develop and produce a slate of four features directed by emerging Saudi talents with international ambitions.The first title expected to go into production is “Night Courier,” a comedy about a young man named Fahad who winds up in possession of six crates of illicit booze in an Arab city known for its hidden delights and dangers. This project was first presented last year at the inaugural Red Sea Film Festival’s Red Sea Souk projects market.The four-picture pact between Telfaz11 and Easy Riders was forged at the Cannes Film Festival.Founded by Alaa Yousef Fadan, Ali Al Kalthami, and Ibrahim Al Khairallah, Telfaz11 is an innovative content company that started out in the YouTube space and has since seen rapid growth in both production and distribution.
Saudi Arabia has taken another step in its push to become a movie production hub by launching its long-awaited 40% cash rebate to grow the local economy.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Saudi Film Commission has announced its long gestating incentive for film productions in the kingdom which consists of an up to 40% cash rebate.Ever since it lifted its 35-year-old religion-related ban on cinema in 2017, Saudi has been experiencing a boom in all aspects of film industry activity, becoming West Asia’s top-grossing territory in terms of theatrical box office returns. Attracting international film and TV productions is clearly a key part of this government-driven effort.Details of the Saudi rebate, which was announced in Cannes, remain scant besides the fact that it provides up to 40% of spend in cash back for film productions that recruit Saudi crew and talent above and below the line and feature the kingdom’s “culture, history and people along with showcasing the diverse selection of landscapes in Saudi Arabia,” a statement said.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSaudi Arabian filmmaker, actress and activist Fatima Al-Banawi (“Barakah Meets Barakah”) is set to make her feature film directorial debut with “Basma,” a bold drama that will tackle the theme of mental illness in her country.The pic, which she also wrote, is set to start shooting in Jeddah in October.Besides writing and directing “Basma,” Al Banawi will be its titular star, playing the 26-year-old daughter of a man who suffers from paranoid delusions. Upon returning from the U.S.
A photo of Queen Elizabeth II attending the opening of her namesake subway line in London is going viral — not because of Her Majesty, but for a shadowy figure seen lurking in the back of the photo.
“Forrest Gump” made a surprise appearance on Tuesday at Paddington Station in London.A mystery man who looked eerily similar to the character was seen gazing at Queen Elizabeth during her visit to the new Elizabeth train line named in her honor for the Platinum Jubilee. Valentine Low, the royal correspondent for The Times of London, posted a pic of the day, showing the 96-year-old monarch sporting a bright lemon-colored coat and matching hat.
Naman Ramachandran Producer and actor Sadie Frost (“Dracula”), who made her feature directorial debut with a documentary on British fashion designer Mary Quant, is now training her lens on another British cultural icon.“Twiggy” will be a feature-length documentary on Quant’s contemporary Lesley Lawson, better-known by her nickname Twiggy. It will trace her journey from her working-class childhood in northwest London, through to her international stardom as a celebrity model, and her career as an actor, singer, fashion designer, writer and TV presenter.
Emilio Mayorga Film Factory Entertainment has taken international rights to “Loli Tormenta,” the next film by one of Spain’s foremost auteurs, Agustí Villaronga (“The Belly of the Sea,” “Uncertain Glory”). Shooting is scheduled for the first week of July in Barcelona.Enrique González Kuhn’s Caramel Films distributes “Loli Tormenta” in Spain.
Manori Ravindran International EditorKISS takes the stage in the first exclusive clip to emerge from hotly anticipated musical biopic “Spinning Gold.”The long-gestating movie about Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart — directed by his son Tim Bogart and now in post-production — has finally landed, and is being screened to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival market this week.Founded in 1974 by Neil Bogart, Casablanca Records was the home to KISS, Donna Summer, the Village People and Parliament Funkadelic, among others. The company contributed the first smash extended single to clubs and radio stations all over the world with Summer’s 17-minute 1975 banger “Love to Love You,” and released 289 albums from more than 140 artists.