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Ride together or die together. Sound familiar? It should, as the directing duo behind the action movie blockbuster smash hits Bad Boys for Life and Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, return to the genre with another buddy cop-style action outing in 7 Dogs. The first teaser for the movie has now been unleashed and offers a glimpse at this tale of a cop and a crook who embark on a globetrotting adventure to stop the titular crime syndicate. You can check out the newly released teaser for 7 Dogs below...

Based on an original story by Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, 7 Dogs stars Karim Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Ezz as the main duo, with the rest of the cast now including several other high-profile international stars such as Monica Bellucci...

Bad Boys directorial duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s Saudi-shot action thriller 7 Dogs has unveiled a first teaser as well as more details on its high-profile international cast.

The $40 thriller headlined by Egyptian stars Karim Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Ezz is billed as Saudi Arabia’s most ambitious home-grown production since the lifting of its cinema ban in 2017.

Ezz plays Interpol officer opposite Aziz as a high-ranking member of the clandestine global crime syndicate known as 7 Dogs, who are forced into an uneasy alliance to stop the spread of a dangerous new drug across the Middle East.

It is based on an original story by Turki Alalshikh (aka Turki Al-Sheikh), chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, who is best known internationally as a mover and shaker in the international boxing world,...

The long-awaited teaser for “7 Dogs” has roared online, signalling the arrival of the most ambitious Arabic-language action film ever mounted. Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the duo behind Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the Usd 40 million thriller pairs regional icons Ahmed Ezz and Karim Abdel Aziz with an international line-up: Italian legend Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded), Bollywood superstar Salman Khan (the Tiger franchise), Indian screen titan Sanjay Dutt (Vaastav: The Reality), and German-Chinese martial-arts talent Max Huang (Mortal Kombat). Along with Tara Emad (The Blue Elephant 2) and Sandy Bella (Franklin) who join the cast as elite Interpol agents, while Saudi television legend Nasser Algassabi appears as General Nasser, opposite Egyptian veteran Sayed Ragab as General Sabri.

7 Dogs is based on an original story by H.E. Turki Alalshikh and written by Mohamed El-Dabah. The film follows renowned Interpol officer Khalid Al-Azzazi brings down...

The directing duo behind the mammoth blockbuster action hits Bad Boys for Life and Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, return to a world of explosions and gunfire with an all-new action outing, Seven Dogs. The first look at the project, which finds the directors heading to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, for this tale of an Interpol agent who must join forces with a member of the titular clandestine organization, 7 Dogs, to stop a drug deal that could destabilize society.

Several first look images from Seven Dogs have now been released (you can check them out below), with Deadline also revealing details about the cast and plot for the buddy cop-esque action thriller flick. Based on an original story by Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Seven Dogs stars...

“Bad Boys 3” directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are shooting Saudi blockbuster “7 Dogs (2025)[/link]The Seven Dogs,” featuring Egyptian stars Karim Abdel-Aziz and Ahmed Ezz and involving the fight against a dangerous new drug called Pink Lady that is flooding the Middle East.

Turki Al-Sheikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, conceived the story of the $40 million action movie, the screenplay for which is written by Mohamed El Dabbah. Sheikh has previously dabbled as a screenwriter, having penned Saudi TV series “The Eight” and supernatural thriller “Cello,” directed by “Saw” helmer Darren Lynn Bousman and starring Jeremy Irons.

Abdel-Aziz and Ezz previously starred together in period piece “Kira & El Gin,” which is among the highest-grossing movies produced in Egypt.

“Seven Dogs” revolves around an Interpol officer named Khalid Al-Azzazi who apprehends Ghali Abu Dawood, a high-ranking member of a clandestine global crime syndicate known as 7 Dogs.

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First images for Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah Saudi-shot action thriller have been unveiled as the production shoots outside the capital of Riyadh.

The $40M project from the Bad Boys for Life directorial duo is being hailed as a gamechanger for Saudi Arabia as its continues its drive to become the Middle East and North Africa’s biggest film and TV hub, following the lifting of its cinema ban in late 2017.

Egyptian stars Karim Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Ezz headline the thriller.

Karim Abdel Aziz (Left) and Ahmed Ezz (Right) on location at Alhisn Big Time Studios

The movie is being shot at Alhisn Big Time Studios in Riyadh, one of Mena region’s biggest film and television production facilities, with additional filming at Riyadh Boulevard. Riyadh will serve as a stand-in for multiple international cities,...

Prominent Egyptian director Marwan Hamed, whose epic “Kira and El Gen” about local resistance to British occupation recently scored at the local box office, is being feted with a career award by the El Gouna Film Festival.

The Egyptian fest, running Oct. 13-20 in the Red Sea resort roughly 250 miles south of Cairo, is also paying tribute to the Sudanese Film Group, a groundbreaking collective of filmmakers, and is planning an homage to late great British-French icon Jane Birkin.

Hamed (pictured above) broke out internationally in 2006 with his bold adaptation of Alaa Aswany’s bestselling novel “The Yacoubian Building” that became a game-changer in Egytian cinema due to the way it depicted homosexuality, Islamic fundamentalism and government corruption. After “Yacoubian” become a local hit and travelled widely Hamed scored again big time with “The Blue Elephant,” a thriller with supernatural elements and its sequel “The Blue Elephant 2” that more...

Egyptian filmmaker Marwan Hamed, the director of “The Yacoubian Building,” “The Blue Elephant” and “The Blue Elephant 2,” which last year became the highest-grossing Egyptian film in history, is shooting “Kira and El Gen,” based on Ahmed Mourad’s book “1919,” about Egyptian resistance to British occupation. He spoke to Variety about the project at the Cairo Film Festival.

Produced by Ahmed Badawy, managing director of Tamer Morsi’s Synergy Films, the budget is north of $10 million, making it the most expensive film in Egyptian cinema history. The film stars some of the biggest names in Arab cinema, including Karim Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Ezz, Hind Sabri and Ahmad Malek. British actor Sam Hazeldine also appears.

Hamed says that the opening of cinemas in Saudi Arabia with its sizeable box-office potential has created a landscape where Arab financiers can plan for better returns on films. “What actually encouraged such an investment...

A psychiatrist for the criminally insane, Dr. Yehia Rashed (Karim Abdel Aziz), is called out of early retirement, where he vanished after his exertions in the original The Blue Elephant (2014), to deal with a young murderess who appears to have supernatural powers. In Blue Elephant: Dark Whispers (El Feel-el Azra’a 2), director Marwan Hamed (who made his name internationally with his acclaimed first film The Yacoubian Building) turns a basically schlocky horror tale into a wild fantasy ride that benefits from more CGI than Egyptian movies have ever seen and a mesmerizing star turn by Hend Sabry as ...

A psychiatrist for the criminally insane, Dr. Yehia Rashed (Karim Abdel Aziz), is called out of early retirement, where he vanished after his exertions in the original The Blue Elephant (2014), to deal with a young murderess who appears to have supernatural powers. In Blue Elephant: Dark Whispers (El Feel-el Azra’a 2), director Marwan Hamed (who made his name internationally with his acclaimed first film The Yacoubian Building) turns a basically schlocky horror tale into a wild fantasy ride that benefits from more CGI than Egyptian movies have ever seen and a mesmerizing star turn by Hend Sabry as ...

Seven of the world’s foremost festivals dedicated to, or with strong traditions of highlighting genre cinema, have banded together to form the Fantastic 7, an initiative which sees each bring one project to be pitched at the Cannes Film Market.

The seven festivals include: Sitges Intl. Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia – which initiated the idea along with the Cannes Market; Bucheon Intl. Fantastic Film Festival, Cairo Intl. Film Festival, Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival (Ficg), International Film Festival & Awards – Macao; South by Southwest and the Toronto Intl. Film Festival (Tiff).

Cannes Film Market executive director Jérôme Paillard, Sitges deputy general manager Mónica Garcia Massagué, and Ventana Sur and Blood Window founder Bernardo Bergeret initialized and head the program.

In addition to the project pitches, Spanish director J.A. Bayona will godfather the event. Bayona has a memorable relationship with the Cannes Festival. In 2007 he premiered his now classic debut feature “The Orphanage” at Critics’ Week.