The Egyptian comedy Waafet Reggala is the biggest box office hit in the history of Saudi Arabia.
The film, sometimes transliterated as Wa’fet Regala, about four friends who unite for a holiday to the coast of the Red Sea, has done astounding business in the Kingdom, bringing in a total of 765,412 people for a cumulative box office of SAR 52,625,412 in 12 weeks.
The film is still the number one film in the country in its 12th week, bringing 51,519 people last weekend.
Saudi Arabia has transformed the cinema landscape n since cinemas reopened, and has been one of the brightest spots in a dark time for cinema-going as a whole. In 2020, Saudi Arabia was the only country to grow year on year at the box office.
The film has broken box office records not just for the pandemic era, but since cinemas reopened in Saudi Arabia in 2018.
Number two at the box office in Saudi Arabia is Mortal Kombat, with 33,694 admissions for a SAR 2.6 million box office total.
The film, directed by Simon McQuoid and starring Lewis Tan, Mehcad Brooks and Joe Taslim, follows a group of fighters from Earth chosen for an interdimensional tournament who are being picked off one by one by the champions of the other dimensions before the tournament has a chance to begin. If they lose, Earth will be lost.
Nobody, starring Bob Odenkirk, is the number 3 film in Saudi Arabia, bringing in another 30,000 people in its fourth week for an SAR 14.4 million total in its first month.
Godzilla vs. Kong is in fourth in Saudi Arabia, bringing in 28,578 tickets sold over last weekend for a three week total of SAR 15.4 million.
Godzilla vs. Kong, a combined sequel to Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019), has been a huge hit across the world, setting a pandemic record of $48.5 million in the United States last weekend.
So far, the film has grossed $338.6 million worldwide. The film is tracking well ahead of 2014’s Godzilla film, as well as ahead of Godzilla King of Monsters and similar to Kong: Skull Island in 2017 pre-pandemic.
The film is directed by Adam Wingard, who previously helmed horror films such as You’re Next, The Guest and Death Note.
Tom & Jerry: The Movie was the fifth highest-grossing film of last weekend, with another 14,000 tickets sold for an SAR 9 million total in four weeks.
Cinemas were closed for all of February due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Raya and the Last Dragon has been well behind fellow family film Tom & Jerry in the Kingdom, bringing in 5,000 people in eighth place for an SAR 5.5 million box office total since it opened five weeks ago.
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