Saudi Arabia: 56 cinemas sold 30 million tickets in 4 years
Over the past four years, Saudi cinema has made great achievements, with box office sales exceeding 30.8 million tickets.
Since its launch in April 2018, the number of theaters has reached 56 houses with 518 screens in 20 cities, in which 1144 films were shown, including 22 Saudi films, and ticket sales amounted to 30,860,956 films in 22 languages from 38 countries.
The cinema sector has contributed to the employment of 4,439 Saudi young men and women, as part of a framework to increase the size of the media market, provide an appropriate environment that will diversify economic sources of income, and create thousands of jobs for Saudi youth, in order to achieve the goals of Vision 2030 in making the media a strategic tributary of the national economy and one of the sectors Which enhances the Kingdom's competitive position, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.
This growth, which was achieved in four years, indicates that the cinema sector is an attractive element for local and international investors, in light of the initiatives and projects offered by the authority that enable beneficiaries to engage in media activities of all kinds with ease and ease.
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