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Record three-day earnings and 184,000 tickets for Alzarfa highlight the Kingdom’s expanding screen network and appetite for local stories.

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A Saudi-made action-comedy has seized the summer spotlight: “Alzarfa: Escape from Hanhounia Hell” drew 184,000 admissions and SR 7.9 million ($2.1 million) in its first three days, overtaking F1 and Jurassic World Rebirth at local multiplexes. Box-office tracker elCinema lists a full first-week haul of SR 9 million, the strongest launch for a domestic title this year.

Directed by Abdullah Majed and produced by comedian-writer Ibrahim Alkhairallah, the 90-minute heist farce follows three small-time crooks who blunder into a film financed by a swaggering tycoon. It was financed by AlShimaisi Films and Big Time Fund and distributed by Qanawat, with Telfaz11 providing production support after its 2023 smash Sattar re-set Saudi records. “Audiences want stories in their own voice delivered at a scale that can stand beside Hollywood,” Alkhairallah said after the opening weekend.

The result deepens a trend that analysts have tracked all year. Ministry-compiled figures show Saudi cinemas generated SR 113 million in April alone, with a domestic comedy accounting for one-fifth of takings; industry monitor Motivate Val Morgan projects admissions revenue to hit SR 1.35 billion by 2029 as local market share widens.

PwC forecasts the wider cinema economy—tickets plus concessions and advertising—could reach nearly $1 billion by 2030pwc.com, and Arab News reports box-office receipts have plateaued at roughly SR 900 million annually since 2022 despite a dip in imported titles.

Alzarfa’s momentum underscores the Kingdom’s rapid exhibition build-out: more than 630 screens were operating across 60 sites by the end of last year, with ambitions to top 1,000 before the decade closes. Its makers have already booked a Gulf rollout later in July and are courting distributors in Egypt and Jordan, banking on a formula that mixes broad humour with genre elements refined in video-game parodies and YouTube sketches that first made Telfaz11 a regional brand. Whether the film can approach Sattar’s all-time record remains to be seen, but for now the giraffe-themed caper has shown that Saudi audiences will line up for a home-grown spectacle when given the chance.

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