{"id":448064,"date":"2021-11-08T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448064"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:41:07","slug":"saudi-invests-64-bn-in-entertainment-as-it-tries-to-wean-economy-off-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-invests-64-bn-in-entertainment-as-it-tries-to-wean-economy-off-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi invests $64 bn in entertainment as it tries to wean economy off oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s decades-long ban on cinemas only ended in 2018, but the desert kingdom already has Hollywood ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s investing $64 billion in its nascent entertainment industry as part of a broader effort to wean the economy off oil and transform itself into the Middle East\u2019s premier movie hub.<\/p>\n<p>The action flick \u2018Desert Warrior\u2019, starring Anthony Mackie (Marvel\u2019s new Captain America), is being filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia, and Gerard Butler\u2019s latest thriller \u2018Kandahar\u2019 is starting principal photography in the Al-Ula region this month &#8212; a first for the UNESCO World Heritage Site opened last year as part of Saudi Arabia\u2019s related push to introduce tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s decades-long ban on cinemas only ended in 2018, but the desert kingdom already has Hollywood ambitions. It\u2019s investing $64 billion in its nascent entertainment industry as part of a broader effort to wean the economy off oil and transform itself into the Middle East\u2019s premier movie hub. The action flick \u2018Desert Warrior\u2019, starring Anthony Mackie (Marvel\u2019s new Captain America), is being filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia, and Gerard Butler\u2019s latest thriller \u2018Kandahar\u2019 is starting principal photography in the Al-Ula region this month &#8212; a first for the UNESCO World Heritage Site opened last year as part of Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}