Private sources revealed that Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman (MBS) has ordered the head of the Saudi Entertainment Authority, Turki Al-Sheikh, to produce entertainment series in Saudi Arabia with the help of pornographic stars.
The initial budget allocated for the project is estimated at about $3 billion, the sources added.
In 2016, Saudi Arabia established the General Entertainment Authority within Vision 2030 – the crown prince’s plan to diversify its economy beyond oil, which accounts for more than half of the government’s revenue.
Among its goals was to almost double household spending on cultural and entertainment activities within the kingdom. Riyadh is now seeing more than $64 billion in entertainment investment, with a significant proportion of that going to the live music industry.
MBS’s Vision 2030 prides itself on offering “world-class entertainment” and says that it has organized up to 3,800 entertainment events in the country, attended by more than 80 million people.
Electronic music, strobe lights, glittered faces, and hundreds of thousands of people in mixed-gender gyrations are all part of a new kind of ritual in Saudi Arabia that didn’t exist just three years ago.
In 2018, the Chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Sport Authority (GSA), Turki al-Sheikh, signed an exclusive 10-year contract with the WWE to hold wrestling competitions in the kingdom, propped up by billion-dollar TV deals.
As part of his attempts to boost his image worldwide, MBS is looking to invest billions of dollars into Hollywood movies and entertainment.
