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MENA-based production companies Wild Bunch TV Filmed Entertainment and Dubai Bling producers Different Productions are teaming up with regional celebrity Nour Arida and independent creative agency Read the Room, to produce Confidence is Queen.

The show is billed as an ambitious new reality series fronted by Nour Arida, who is one of the most influential Arab women.

It sees Arida assemble a powerhouse squad of female mentors to guide a selected group of Arab women through an emotional and entertaining journey of fears, tears, laughter, and discovery.

The co-creators say the show aims to ignite a confidence revolution, proving that the power of sisterhood can uplift, inspire, and rebuild from the inside out.

With a social following exceeding 18 million on her platforms, Nour Arida is one of the very first Arab women to front worldwide campaigns of giant brands such as Audemars Piguet, Sephora, Bouchero and MakeUp Forever.

Through the show, she intends to extend her advocacy for women’s empowerment to television, tackling the very real confidence and self-worth challenges faced by women across the region and beyond.

This is Wild Bunch TV’s first foray into reality TV. The company had previously produced Netflix’ first Arab Original feature Perfect Strangers, which went on to top the charts on Netflix in the MENA as well as the psychological thriller The Sand Castle, which premiered on the platform in 2025.

Read the Room is an independent creative agency created by five female founders with backgrounds in global advertising agencies across Beirut, Dubai, New York, Montreal, and Rio de Janeiro.

They are experts in brand communication and marketing, having led campaigns for major international and regional brands. The founders are renowned for impactful women’s rights campaigns in the Middle East and have collectively won over 300 industry awards, including multiple from the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival.

The project is co-produced with Different Productions, the company behind Netflix’s hit Dubai Bling, Shark Tank Dubai, as well as It’s OK, an intimate look at Lebanese superstar Elissa.

October 13, 2025 4:08am

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MENA-based distributor Wild Bunch TV Filmed Entertainment, in collaboration with Sony distributor Empire Entertainment, has announced the theatrical release of Disorder, a Lebanese anthology feature executive produced by filmmaker Nadine Labaki. The film will open in cinemas across Lebanon on July 10, with plans for a wider release throughout the Levant, the Gulf, select European countries and Australia over the summer.

Originally planned as a limited local release, Disorder has generated strong interest following an acclaimed festival run, prompting Wild Bunch TV to expand its distribution strategy to meet growing regional and international demand.

Set against Lebanon’s turbulent backdrop—from the 2019 protests to the devastation of the 2020 Beirut port explosion—the film weaves together four darkly comedic and deeply human stories that explore survival and resilience amid chaos. While firmly rooted in Lebanon’s recent history, the anthology’s themes speak to broader experiences across the region, where humour often becomes both a coping mechanism and an act of defiance.

Disorder brings together four acclaimed Lebanese directors—Lucien Bourjeily, Wissam Charaf, Bane Fakih and Areej Mahmoud—to tell these stories with sharp wit and emotional resonance. The cast features celebrated Lebanese actors, including Manal Issa, Rodrigue Sleiman, Farah Shaer and Hanane Hajj Ali. The project was produced by Bechara Mouzannar with executive producers Nadine Labaki and Khaled Mouzannar, and co-producers Abla Khoury and Lara Karam Chekerdjian.

The film premiered at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, where it received the Cinema for Humanity Audience Award and sold out three screenings. It later played to enthusiastic crowds at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and was featured at festivals in Zurich and Washington, DC, among others.

Wild Bunch TV plans to announce detailed dates for the film’s regional and international rollout in early July.

Wild Bunch TV Filmed Entertainment brings Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’ to Saudi cinemas for the first time ever with 25th Anniversary re-release

The psychological cult classic that launched Nolan’s legacy hits the big screen across the Kingdom, marking its theatrical debut in Saudi Arabia.

Wild Bunch TV Filmed Entertainment has announced the re-release of Christopher Nolan’s Memento across the Middle East and North Africa, marking the 25th anniversary of one of cinema’s most groundbreaking psychological thrillers. The film will return to theaters across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and Jordan starting June 19, but the Saudi release comes with added significance: Memento will be screened in cinemas for the first time ever in the Kingdom, where theatrical exhibition was not available at the time of the film’s original release in 2000.

A cult classic that redefined non-linear storytelling, Memento follows a man suffering from short-term memory loss as he attempts to track down his wife’s killer, unfolding in reverse, both structurally and psychologically. The film earned Nolan his first Academy Award nomination and grossed over $40 million worldwide on a modest $9 million budget. Two decades later, it remains one of his most discussed and dissected works, a masterclass in narrative form and audience manipulation.

This re-release is part of Wild Bunch TV’s ongoing initiative to reintroduce modern cinematic landmarks to new audiences across the MENA region. Over the past two years, the distributor has revived a wide range of contemporary classics, including Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and City of God; titles that continue to resonate strongly with younger generations discovering them for the first time.

Memento joins this legacy not as a nostalgic re-run, but as part of a broader celebration of auteur-driven cinema and timeless storytelling. Wild Bunch TV’s commitment to supporting visionary filmmakers in the region has also included the distribution of Nolan’s major works, such as Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer, all of which have helped shape the theatrical landscape in Saudi Arabia and beyond.

In 2023, Oppenheimer became a cultural and commercial phenomenon, grossing over $11.8 million in Saudi Arabia alone; making it one of the Kingdom’s top three highest-grossing films of the year. The 10th-anniversary re-release of Interstellar earned $1.7 million at the Saudi box office, while Inception’s recent return to cinemas was met with similarly strong audience turnout, affirming Nolan’s enduring influence in the market.

As Memento prepares to hit Saudi screens for the very first time, the release offers a unique opportunity for local audiences to experience the film as it was originally intended: in a dark theater, fully immersed, piecing together the mystery scene by scene.