Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival Sets Dates, Announces New Team

Rebecca Davis editorThe Shanghai International Film Festival will take place this year from June 11 to June 19.The news comes less than two weeks after Gao Yunfei, the head of Shanghai’s municipal film administration and vice-minister of its propaganda department, stated at a press conference that the city was considering pushing the event back to July.Registration for the 24th annual event is now open to “Chinese and foreign filmmakers and industry people,” the festival said, implying a door

In the days leading up to Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the crown’s publicity machine went into offense mode, portraying the Duchess of Sussex as a bullying boss and superficial magpie who donned earrings gifted to her by Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi prince who had dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed in 2018, to a state dinner that same year.

Meghan Markle has been accused of wearing "blood money" earrings gifted by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on two separate official occasions.  Markle wore the earrings -- initially a gift to Queen Elizabeth -- at a state dinner in Fiji during a royal tour that included Tonga, Australia and New Zealand in October 2018, just three weeks after Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia.The U.S. has accused the crown prince of ordering Khashoggi’s death.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThree years after the first movie theater reopened in Saudi Arabia – following removal of a religion-related ban – the kingdom has become the top theatrical market in the Middle East and is turning into a major driver for Arabic film production.“At the moment Saudi is on a different path from the rest of the world,” says David Hancock, an analyst at London-based Omdia, which sees this new market as having the potential to be ranked among the top 10-15

Senator Cory Booker has been issued an apology by the BBC.

The BBC is issuing an apology and a correction after airing an interview with a man who falsely claimed to be U.S. Senator Cory Booker.

As the world patiently waits for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, there have been a few stories that have come out before the much-anticipated telecast on March 7. This week, a feature from The Times claims that the Duchess of Sussex was named a bully by one of her close advisers during her time as a working royal at Kensington Palace. Another story claimed that the Duchess wore earrings gifted to her by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

There have been a few stories that have come out about Meghan Markle in the days leading up to her tell all interview alongside her husband, Prince Harry, with Oprah Winfrey this coming Sunday (March 7).

Meghan Markle is said to be “saddened” by an explosive report in The Times Of London, which has seen an email sent by her former Kensington Palace communications secretary raising concerns about her “bullying” behavior.

The Tokyo International Film Festival has announced the dates for the 34th edition of the festival as well as dates for TIFFCOM, the film and television market. Japan's flagship festival is set to run for 10 days from Oct.

The dates are set for the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. But there’s more news than just the September 2-6 run, which expands from three days to four: Organizers are hoping to hold an in-person event in the Colorado resort town.

The inaugural Red Sea Film Festival — which was due to launch March 12, 2020 in Saudi Arabia's coastal city of Jeddah and became one of the first festival casualties of the coronavirus — has finally been rescheduled. Almost a year to the day that the festival was canceled as the kingdom reported its first cases of COVID-19 and much of the world was beginning to feel the devastating effects of the pandemic, organizers have revealed that the festival will now take place Nov.

Discovery Wednesday unveiled a long-term partnership with Saudi telecom’s group’s digital entertainment arm Intigral to provide broadcast and subscription-video-on-demand content to its flagship OTT service, Jawwy TV.