UAE cinema and e-gaming sectors reported increased revenue in 2024
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Saudi cinema box office reaches $800m, Top Gun: Maverick is highest grossing film
Saudi cinemas have sold more than 51m tickets to date
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Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Pathaan on a roll, earns $52.5 million in 4 days
Seeing the box office collections, film trade expects the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer to end its first week on a historical note
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Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘Pathaan’ continues to create history, collect over $24.5 million in two days
The SRK spectacle also broke various box office records
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Pathaan box office: SRK Bollywood blockbuster revives Indian cinema after Covid-19 slump
Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan could offer a lifeline for Bollywood after a string of flops since the pandemic
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Avatar leads list of top 10 highest-grossing films of all time – can sequel Way of the Water match success?
Avatar: Way of the Water will need to be one of the highest grossing films of all time just to break even
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Middle East cinema revenues set to see fastest Covid recovery in the world
Box office receipts forecast to hit $1.3bn in 2024 after slumping to just $250m in 2020
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MENA cinema box office receipts set to buck global trend to hit $1bn by 2024
New research shows Middle East, and specifically Saudi Arabia, is unlocking a lucrative new economic opportunity
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‘Avengers: Endgame’ to pass ‘Avatar’ as highest-grossing film of all time
Avengers: Endgame has now taken in $2.79bn in theatres worldwide as of Friday – just $500,000 short of Avatar
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Video: Avengers Endgame and the business of Hollywood
ABTV’s Shruthi Nair reveals how much the new Avengers movie will contribute to Hollywood monetarily and explains the business of the film industry.
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Avengers: Endgame set for record-breaking UAE box office opening
The latest in the Marvel film franchise sold twice as many presale tickets this weekend in the UAE as previous movie
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Global box office sees record 2018, earning $96.8bn
Disney smash hits such as Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War drive worldwide movie market
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Sequel to UAE’s biggest homegrown movie set for release
Hajwala 2: The Mystery Mission is the sequel to the UAE’s biggest million-dollar box office hit Hajwala
