Hollywood producer could bring Arab hero Saladin to the silver screen

Published August 12th, 2003 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Zeidan Consultancy, a Middle East public relations consultancy, revealed that it is in talks with Zinkler Films of Hollywood to produce a motion picture on the life of the Arab world’s historic hero Saladin El Din Al-Ayubi.  

 

Zeidan Consultancy plans to film and produce parts of the movie in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to the attractive media infrastructure and suitable film locations for this project. 

 

“World class movie production costs, excluding actors fees, start at $30 million. To our knowledge this would be the first Hollywood movie to be filmed in the UAE and we are also talking to interested local investors who may wish to invest in the success of this movie venture…” commented CEO of Dubai based Zeidan Consultancy, Monal Zeidan.  

 

Zinkler Films is a leading movie production company based in Hollywood, California. Zinkler assists foreign production companies and producers in packaging, distributing and jointly financing movie ventures. — (menareport.com) 

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