“This really is soup to nuts - everything when it comes to doing a production on the ground,” says Mbc Studios’s Christina Wayne.
Mbc Studios, the production arm of Middle East broadcaster Mbc Group, has started offering production services to films and TV shows looking to shoot in Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh-based Mbc Studios Production is already working with two non-mbc films and a Korean TV series that are considering shooting in Saudi Arabia.
Given Saudi’s nascent industry, one of the key challenges for incoming productions is sourcing local talent and navigating legal, financial and business affairs. Productions looking...
Mbc Studios, the production arm of Middle East broadcaster Mbc Group, has started offering production services to films and TV shows looking to shoot in Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh-based Mbc Studios Production is already working with two non-mbc films and a Korean TV series that are considering shooting in Saudi Arabia.
Given Saudi’s nascent industry, one of the key challenges for incoming productions is sourcing local talent and navigating legal, financial and business affairs. Productions looking...
- 12/6/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Egyptian superstar Yousra over the course of a four-decade career has starred in a multitude of Arabic film and TV milestones comprising classic movies such as Youssef Chahine’s “Alexandria: Again and Forever” and Marwan Hamed’s “The Yacoubian Building,” and hit Ramadan series “Public Opinion Case,” which was instrumental in changing Egypt’s rape victim legislation.
But while Yousra has appeared in several co-productions, she recently had the first-time experience of working on the Mbc series “Rose & Layla” with a non-Arabic writer-director duo: British screenwriter Cris Cole, creator of the BAFTA-nominated series “Mad Dogs,” and Adrian Shergold, who directed “Mad Dogs.” “Rose & Layla,” which is produced by Maged Mohsen and Safa Aburizik, will be distributed internationally by veteran Brit exec Stewart Till’s Till Entertainment.
The groundbreaking 10-episode show – which will be launching on Mbc’s Shahid streamer by year’s end – marks another first, pairing Yousra with popular...
But while Yousra has appeared in several co-productions, she recently had the first-time experience of working on the Mbc series “Rose & Layla” with a non-Arabic writer-director duo: British screenwriter Cris Cole, creator of the BAFTA-nominated series “Mad Dogs,” and Adrian Shergold, who directed “Mad Dogs.” “Rose & Layla,” which is produced by Maged Mohsen and Safa Aburizik, will be distributed internationally by veteran Brit exec Stewart Till’s Till Entertainment.
The groundbreaking 10-episode show – which will be launching on Mbc’s Shahid streamer by year’s end – marks another first, pairing Yousra with popular...
- 12/5/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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