AMC’s Saudi Arabia theater will be first in 35 years, opens in two weeks

U.S.-based but Chinese-owned AMC Entertainment has officially scored the first cinema license in Saudi Arabia after the country lifted its ban on public movie theaters last December.

The new theater is slated to open on April 18th in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, and according to reports, the first movie slated to be shown is Disney’s “The Black Panther.”