Boney Kapoor’s Bayview Projects has snapped up remake rights on Hadi El Bagoury’s Egyptian romantic comedy.
Veteran Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor’s Bayview Projects has snapped up remake rights on Hadi El Bagoury’s Egyptian romantic comedy hit Hepta: The Last Lecture, in a deal brokered by Arab cinema agency Mad Solutions.
Based on Mohamed Sadek’s best-selling book, Hepta revolved around the seven stages of love and was one of the highest-grossing romantic films in the history of Egyptian cinema.
“India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other’s culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.
Veteran Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor’s Bayview Projects has snapped up remake rights on Hadi El Bagoury’s Egyptian romantic comedy hit Hepta: The Last Lecture, in a deal brokered by Arab cinema agency Mad Solutions.
Based on Mohamed Sadek’s best-selling book, Hepta revolved around the seven stages of love and was one of the highest-grossing romantic films in the history of Egyptian cinema.
“India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other’s culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.
- 2/8/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Sheikh Jackson is the new film by Amr Salama, a prominent young Egyptian writer and director whose credits include the prize-winning AIDS drama Asmaa and the coming-of-age comedy Excuse My French, which swept the board at Egypt’s equivalent of the Oscars, as well as the documentary Tahrir which premiered in Venice, winning the Fipresci Award.
It is a strange thing to see an ultra strict iman recall his sweet innocent school days as a devotee of Michael Jackson. While playing like a comedy, there is a sadness to the amount of supression that goes into the creation of the fundamentalist strictness of the man today. As a child he was mistreated just enough by his father to lose the magical charm Michael Jackson exercised upon him.
I wanted to laugh but found it profoundly upsetting to realize the dynamic behind such fundamentalism today.
The director himself said,
I never...
It is a strange thing to see an ultra strict iman recall his sweet innocent school days as a devotee of Michael Jackson. While playing like a comedy, there is a sadness to the amount of supression that goes into the creation of the fundamentalist strictness of the man today. As a child he was mistreated just enough by his father to lose the magical charm Michael Jackson exercised upon him.
I wanted to laugh but found it profoundly upsetting to realize the dynamic behind such fundamentalism today.
The director himself said,
I never...
- 12/14/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Fledgling company to invest $8-9m in 10 Arab-language productions a year.
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawaris’s fledgling film and high-end TV production company iProductions is at the Efm for the first time this year with its debut feature Mawlana [pictured].
The company has also revealed plans to invest around $8m in Arab films.
Amgad Sabry, iProductions CEO, is in Berlin for meetings with festival programmers and potential buyers for the film about a populist Muslim TV preacher plagued with doubts.
“We believe that content can shape the mind of the people. Our aim is to produce films touching on contemporary topics and burning, sometimes controversial issues,” Sabry told Screen.
Based on a novel by Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Issa, it follows Muslim TV preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who is having doubts about the message he is conveying to the millions of spectators who tune into his daily show.
In the backdrop, he is also...
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawaris’s fledgling film and high-end TV production company iProductions is at the Efm for the first time this year with its debut feature Mawlana [pictured].
The company has also revealed plans to invest around $8m in Arab films.
Amgad Sabry, iProductions CEO, is in Berlin for meetings with festival programmers and potential buyers for the film about a populist Muslim TV preacher plagued with doubts.
“We believe that content can shape the mind of the people. Our aim is to produce films touching on contemporary topics and burning, sometimes controversial issues,” Sabry told Screen.
Based on a novel by Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Issa, it follows Muslim TV preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who is having doubts about the message he is conveying to the millions of spectators who tune into his daily show.
In the backdrop, he is also...
- 2/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
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