“Black Panther” is set to break Saudi Arabia’s 35-year cinema ban.Disney and its Middle East distribution partner, Italia Film, will be releasing the Marvel superhero blockbuster on April 18 in an AMC movie theatre in Riyadh with a gala premiere, an Italia Film spokesman said.The “Black Panther” gala will mark the first public screening in the kindgom since movie theaters where banned in the early 1980’s, after Saudi Arabia adopted ultraconservative religious standards in 1979.
Removal of the ban, announced last December, is part of a drive by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to transform Saudi society.“Black Panther” will inaugurate the new Saudi era in a luxurious theatre with more than 600 leather seats located in Riyadh’s King Abdullah Financial District in a building originally intended to be a symphony concert hall, with orchestra and balcony levels and marble bathrooms.AMC Entertainment, which is owned by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda,
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