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02.12.2022 - 10:03 / deadline.com
Dubai-based Middle Eastern exhibition giant Vox Cinemas has unveiled its first slate of original Arabic films, which it is producing under a commitment first announced in 2021 to make 25 films out of the region in five years.
The company, which operates 600 cinema theatres across the Middle East, announced the new projects on the second day of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival which it is sponsoring this year.
They include Iraqi Dubai-based director Yasir Al Yasiri’s Hwijn. Based on a best-selling Saudi YA novel, it revolves around a mythical jinn whose world is turned upside-down when a human family moves into their home.
The production marks the third collaboration between VOX Cinemas, Image Nation Abu Dhabi and MBC Studios, under an alliance first announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 to launch a major production partnership for film and TV projects across the Middle East.
Previous collaborations under the alliance include King of the Ring, a Saudi remake of the South Korean comedy-drama hit The Foul King, which screens at the Red Sea Film Festival.
Further titles on the slate include the Egyptian drama Voy! Voy! Voy!, which is a collaboration between VOX Cinemas, Cairo-based company Film Clinic and Image Nation Abu Dhabi. It will be ready for a 2023 release.
The production is described as a dramedy based on real events and will have an ensemble cast featuring Egyptian stars such as Mohamed Farrag, Nelly Karim and Bayoumi Foaud, alongside up-and-coming talent Taha Desouky, Amgad El Hagar and Mohamed Abdel Azeem.
VOX Cinemas is also joining forces with Saudi Arabia’s Sirb Productions, a sister company of Myrkott Animation Studio and the masterminds behind the ground-breaking Masameer
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