Saudi investors pile $3 billion into major game publishers

In the days leading up to Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the crown’s publicity machine went into offense mode, portraying the Duchess of Sussex as a bullying boss and superficial magpie who donned earrings gifted to her by Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi prince who had dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed in 2018, to a state dinner that same year.

Meghan Markle has been accused of wearing "blood money" earrings gifted by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on two separate official occasions.  Markle wore the earrings -- initially a gift to Queen Elizabeth -- at a state dinner in Fiji during a royal tour that included Tonga, Australia and New Zealand in October 2018, just three weeks after Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia.The U.S. has accused the crown prince of ordering Khashoggi’s death.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThree years after the first movie theater reopened in Saudi Arabia – following removal of a religion-related ban – the kingdom has become the top theatrical market in the Middle East and is turning into a major driver for Arabic film production.“At the moment Saudi is on a different path from the rest of the world,” says David Hancock, an analyst at London-based Omdia, which sees this new market as having the potential to be ranked among the top 10-15

Senator Cory Booker has been issued an apology by the BBC.

The BBC is issuing an apology and a correction after airing an interview with a man who falsely claimed to be U.S. Senator Cory Booker.

As the world patiently waits for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, there have been a few stories that have come out before the much-anticipated telecast on March 7. This week, a feature from The Times claims that the Duchess of Sussex was named a bully by one of her close advisers during her time as a working royal at Kensington Palace. Another story claimed that the Duchess wore earrings gifted to her by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

There have been a few stories that have come out about Meghan Markle in the days leading up to her tell all interview alongside her husband, Prince Harry, with Oprah Winfrey this coming Sunday (March 7).

Meghan Markle is said to be “saddened” by an explosive report in The Times Of London, which has seen an email sent by her former Kensington Palace communications secretary raising concerns about her “bullying” behavior.

The inaugural Red Sea Film Festival — which was due to launch March 12, 2020 in Saudi Arabia's coastal city of Jeddah and became one of the first festival casualties of the coronavirus — has finally been rescheduled. Almost a year to the day that the festival was canceled as the kingdom reported its first cases of COVID-19 and much of the world was beginning to feel the devastating effects of the pandemic, organizers have revealed that the festival will now take place Nov.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfter a delay due to coronavirus Saudi Arabia’s nascent Red Sea International Film Festival in now on track to hold it’s first edition in November with a partly renewed team in place.The ambitious event, which is Saudi’s first full-fledged film festival and market with international ambitions, is set to run November 11-20 in the historic district of Jeddah, a Unesco World Heritage site.The theme of the fest’s first edition will be “Metamorphosis,”

Discovery Wednesday unveiled a long-term partnership with Saudi telecom’s group’s digital entertainment arm Intigral to provide broadcast and subscription-video-on-demand content to its flagship OTT service, Jawwy TV.

BBC Studios Inks First-Look Deal With Gobstopper Group BBC Studios has signed a first-look deal with Gobstopper Group, the company behind MTV’s Just Tattoo of Us and Revenge Prank With DJ Pauly D & Vinny. As part of its expansion plans, Gobstopper Group has launched Mermaid Studios in Belfast, helmed by Paddy Mckenna, the former head of development at Sony-owned Stellify, and Neil Dimmock, who joins from BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWarner Music Group has announced an investment in the Arab world’s largest independent record label, Rotana Music, which is part of Rotana Group, widely considered the largest entertainment company in the region.

straight to your inbox every day for freeMino Raiola has had plenty to say about Paul Pogba and his future at Manchester United in the past. But it seems Pogba's agent has opted for a change of approach when it comes to talking publicly about his client - for the time being at least.

Bi-fab yards have been bought in a nearly £1million deal.Uncertainty has long hung over the wind turbine manufacturing yards which had aimed to help make Scotland the 'Saudi Arabia of wind'.But today it has been confirmed that Infrastrata, who own the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, have bought the facilities in Methil in Fife and Arnish on the Isle of Lewis in a £850,000 deal.The yards had initially been rescued by the Scottish Government in 2017 but entered administration last