Center East distributor Entrance Row Filmed Leisure has boarded Saudi wrestling comedy “Sattar.” The movie is ready for a large launch in Saudi on Dec. 29 through Entrance Row Arabia, its joint-venture with native exhibitor Muvi Cinemas.
Directed by Kuwaiti’s Abdullah Al Arak, the movie, which launched positively from the latest Purple Sea Movie Competition, is produced by Saudi Arabia’s prolific manufacturing firm Tefaz11 through its new manufacturing arm, AlShimaisi Movies, in tandem with Muvi Studios. “Sattar” stars Saudi actor and humorist Ibrahim Al Hajjaj (“Rashash”), who performs Saad, a person whose floundering private {and professional} life prompts him to pursue his childhood dream of changing into a freestyle wrestler.
The Saudi theatrical market has been booming lately. Following the Dec. 2017 removing of the dominion’s 35-year-old religion-related ban on film theaters, the dominion is now the highest theatrical market within the Center East and was price $238 million in 2021, as per Comscore.
Based on Entrance Row, Arabic movies now account for a hefty 31% of Saudi’s 2022 field workplace haul however Saudi titles nonetheless characterize a small proportion of these releases.
“We’re so proud to be launching AlShimaisi movies, the most recent model from Telfaz11 group with the discharge of our first action-comedy ‘Sattar,’ which was created by Saudi expertise,” stated the pinnacle of AlShimaisi Movies, Ibraheem Alkhairallah, in an announcement.
Following its launch in Saudi, “Sattar” can also be set to exit through Entrance Row in cinemas throughout the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Iraq.
