"The content of the offers will be subject to censorship according to the media policy of the kingdom," he said. Saudi Arabia placed a complete ban on cinemas in the early 1980s.
The first cinemas are expected to open in March 2018. [...]
According to the culture ministry, the government is looking to cash in on the film industry and expects a contribution of 90bn riyals ($24bn) to GDP and the creation of more than 30,000 permanent jobs by 2030. [...]
"I think technology has essentially made the ban on movie theatres almost obsolete because Saudis can access whatever films they want to see on their mobile phones at any time of day," Jane Kinninmont, a senior research fellow at the Chatham House think tank in London, told Al Jazeera.
"It's not as though Saudis are not watching films already. All that will change is that they will get to go together in larger groups to watch films."
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