$3.3 million in cinema revenues in Saudi Arabia in one week

2024-01-17 11:38:07

The American action thriller film The Beekeeper, directed by David Ayer, topped the Saudi box office in its first week, earning 3.9 million riyals ($1.04 million), for 61.9 thousand tickets sold, according to data from the General Authority for Media Regulation.

Saudi cinemas witnessed a large audience turnout throughout last week, as 32 diverse Arab films were shown, which was reflected in the revenues of the total works shown, which amounted to 12.48 million riyals ($3.33 million) with 225.5 thousand tickets sold.

The movie “Abu Nasab,” starring Muhammad Adel Imam, returned to second place once more, following achieving this week 1.8 million riyals ($481.2 thousand) for 33.1 thousand tickets, bringing the total achieved over the past 3 weeks to 11.4 million riyals ($3.04 million). ) for 209.6 thousand tickets.

The Saudi film “Night Representative,” directed by Ali Al-Kalthami, came in third place, earning approximately one million riyals ($288.3 thousand) for 22.2 thousand tickets, bringing the total it has achieved since its release 5 weeks ago, to more than 23.5 million riyals ($6.28 million). For 470.7 thousand tickets.

In its first week there, the comedy film “Me and My Cousin,” starring Bayoumi Fouad, ranked fourth, earning 1.11 million riyals ($296,000) for 17.4 thousand tickets, while the movie Wonka, directed by Paul King, maintained fifth place, achieving 740. One thousand riyals ($197,000) for 14,000 tickets, bringing in 8.29 million riyals ($2.2 million) in the last 5 weeks, for 151.9 thousand tickets.

The American horror film, Night Swim, came in sixth place, earning 603,000 riyals ($160.7,000) for 12,000 tickets. Over the past two weeks, it achieved 1.96 million riyals ($524,000) for 37.4 thousand tickets.

As for the Saudi film “Hawjan,” directed by Yasser Al-Yasiri, it went to seventh place, following achieving 576.5 thousand riyals ($153.7 thousand), for 11.7 thousand tickets, bringing the total achieved over the past two weeks to 2.78 million riyals ($741.3 thousand) for 57.3 thousand tickets. A thousand tickets.

The movie “A Great Gang,” starring Isaad Younes, fell to eighth place, achieving 306.9 thousand riyals ($81.8 thousand) for 6.4 thousand tickets, achieving in the past two weeks since its release there, 1.84 million riyals ($492 thousand) for 38.8 thousand tickets. .

In their first week in Saudi theaters, the Indian film Abraham Ozler came in ninth place, earning 288.1 thousand riyals ($76.8 thousand) for 5.9 thousand tickets, followed in tenth place by the Egyptian film “Al-Harifa” starring Nour Khaled Al-Nabawi, which achieved 298.9 thousand riyals. ($79.7 thousand) for 5.7 thousand tickets.

Joining the list of competition for the top spot at the Saudi box office are 5 new films, scheduled to be released in theaters coinciding with the end of this week, most notably the Saudi film “Hajan,” starring Abdul Mohsen Al-Nimr, and directed by Abu Bakr Shawqi.

The Egyptian film “Maqsoum” starring Laila Elwi and Sherine Reda will also be shown, as well as No way up, The Piper, and The End We Start From.

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