Saudi Arabia erased a ban permits for commercial cinemas
News24xx.com - Saudi Arabia on Monday, December 11 2017 lifted a ban on permits for commercial cinemas which have previously been in place for decades.
The policy is suspected to be part of a series of social reforms from the crown prince who rocked the conservative kingdom.
"The commercial cinema will be allowed to operate in Saudi in early 2018, for the first time in more than 35 years," the local Ministry of Culture and Information said in a statement, adding that the government will begin licensing theaters immediately.
Reviving the theater will represent a paradigm shift in Arabia, which promotes entertainment as part of a major reform plan called Vision 2030 despite opposition from conservatives.
"This marks the moment of a turning point in the development of cultural economy in this kingdom," Information Minister AwwadAlawwad said in the statement.
Hardliners consider the cinema as a threat to cultural and religious identity also helped in the closure of cinemas in the 1980s.
Major Saudi clerics in January reminded cinema's cruelty, calling it as morally corrupt, but the warning was ignored by government authorities.
Local filmmakers repeatedly stated that banning cinema no longer made sense in the YouTube age. Their work is mostly utilizing the virtual world to be distributed abroad.
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