Recently there was a series titled ‘El Cinderella’ that told the story of Soad Hosny’s life and now an unknown writer has decided to make a movie not about her life but about her death! This movie will come to the public in the form of a police action production and will require quite a large budget especially that it will be filmed in London in the same apartment where Soad Hosny allegedly threw herself from the porch! The writer of this movie which is titled ‘Ser El Shorfa’ (Secret of the Balcony) says that due to the controversial topic he has found no one to finance this movie but he is willing to pay for it with money from his own pocket.

Ayman El Halawani a manager at Rotana Cinema Production Company told reporters that this summer Rotana is entering the cinema competition with ‘Andaleeb El Doky’! This movie stars Mohammed Henedy, Dawood Hussein Amr Abdel Jaleel and Syrian actress Heba Noor. ‘Andaleeb El Doky’ will be airing in cinemas next Tuesday and Rotana claims to have provided every facility possible to ensure that audiences worldwide will be blown away. Ayman El Halawani said that Rotana stopped at nothing and filmed most of the movie in Dubai and using a brand new type of camera that has never been used before in the Arab World.

Here is part three of the list of the Egyptian movies we should be expecting this summer 2007:

QAS WE LASQ
Starring: Sherif Monuir and Hanan Turk

The movie that one "BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR" at the EGYPTIAN MOVIE FESTIVAL has finally hit the theatres.
The critics have given positive reviews, but the movie is not expected to bring in millions, because it has been released at the time of Exams in Egypt.

Here is part two of the list of the Egyptian Blockbusters we should be expecting this summer:

ANDALEEB EL DOKY
Starring: Mahammad Henidy

One of Egypts premier Comedians is back for yet another ride. The movie is produced my Rotana and is expected to a huge success. Mohammad Henidy's movies have not been the "must see" movies like the old days but you are still guranteed to leave the cinema in a good mood.

TAYMOOR WE SHAWFEKA
Starring: Ahmad El Sakka

The king of Action is back but this time in a comedy. In his first comedian movie, Ahmad El Sakka teams up with Mona Zaki for their fourth movie together. Although this is the second year in a row for El Sakka to star in a non-action movie, he has already begun filming a new action movie.

It seems that every year we seem to get more movies in the Egyptian Cinema than ever. Only about eight years ago the movies would only be released during the summer time. But since then we have been getting movies during the whole year. And the total of movies went from about 15+ to about 35+ a year, a huge improvement, and a fast one too. Last summer saw a huge collection of movie of over 15 movies.
But 2007 promises to be even better, with a record breaking 27 movies expecting to be released during the summer "battle". And there are still many movies which have not been confirmed.

Here is a list of the movies we should be expecting:

The Lebanese have always been known for their charm and beauty with which they can make it to Hollywood! The famous Lebanese ladies are now the main actresses in a lot of Egyptian movies and their presence is strong in the Egyptian cinema. For example; Nicole Saba stood face to face with the biggest comedian in Egypt Adel Imam, and Haifa Wehbe, who is the most famous singer in the Arab world right now, is about to venture in her debut role in an Egyptian movie. The list is long and includes more and more names like Syrine Abdel Nour, Maya Nasri, Nourhan & Nour.

Nowadays "Khaleej Ne'ma" movie is being shot in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt. It's a new Egyptian movie that is directed by the director Magdy El Hawary. This movie will be the first movie starring four singers; Mahmoud El Esseily, Edward, Mai Kassab & Ahmed Fahmy, one of the boy band WAMA, & also Ghada Adel, the director's wife, is playing a role in the movie.

"Khaleej Ne'ma" is about terrorism, specifically the explosions that took place in Sharm El Sheikh two years ago. It's about some people who were working in Sharm & their work got affected after the explosions. How will they face this problem & overcome it?

Razan Al Moghrabi has just finished shooting her latest movie "Hukum Al Gharam" along side Khalid Al Nabawi. It's a movie about the Minister's secretary and the Minister’s daughter falling in love with the same guy.
Razan was recently nominated for an administrative role at the World Music Awards making her the first Arab to ever be appointed at such a level.

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This Eid, a new type of movie will hit the Egyptian cinemas for the first time.
At a time where Rotana is showing a video clip for the singer Mais Hamdan and Hisham Abdel Rahman called “Keif Al Hal” or “How Are You”, taken from the new Saudi movie, the writer of the movie, Bilal Fadil, said that Rotana is trying hard to have the movie shown in Egypt during Eid Al Adha.

Fadil said that this is a excellent step as it give other Arab nationalities in Egypt, especially the Gulf community, a chance to watch a Saudi movie for the first time as this marks the beginning of the Saudi cinema industry.

Photos from the Saudi Film 'Keif Al Hal'

The first movie of the Lebanese singer Maya Nasri along side Egyptian actors such as Mustafa Shaaban and Ahmad Saaed will be shown during Eid Al Adha.

The movie is called Abyad wa Aswad" or "Black and White" and it’s about an Aerobics instructor (Maya Nasri ) who suffers from a bad accident and needs a bodyguard (Mustafa Shaaban) which then a whole romantic story begins to unfold.

50 Cent is the star of Home of the Brave, the first military movie to address the war in Iraq.
The movie is being shot in Morocco, and is set for release in 2007, and also stars Jessica Biel, Samuel L. Jackson & Christina Ricci.
50 Cent was quoted saying: The film is showing the effects of war. That's what's exciting to me about it, because it is totally relevant to what's going on right now ...

50 Cent Photos on Home of The Brave

Have you recently seen the movie created by Steven Speilberg, inspired by the events of Munich and the Israeli Olymiads, called Munich. This movie is very very powerful, and i really did find that it was a fantastic film, so moving and powerful.
What are your views on the movie and what are your views on the event of Munich in general?

By guest writer Sad butterfly

The best selling novel Omaret Yacoubian (The Yacoubian Building) written by Ala’a El Aswani was transformed to a movie produced by “Good news group” company owned by Emad El Din Adib. The novel is very controversial as it is talking about Egypt before and after the revolution and the transformation that Egypt witnessed along these years. It tackles a lot of political and sexual issues in a very bold way. The movie was chosen with about another 20 movies to be in the Panorama in Berlin Festival which is considered a very important and prestigious cinema festival in the world.

Palestinian movie Paradise Now has won international recognition and got a Golden Globe award for best foreign language film a few days ago at the Golden Globes 2006.
The story of the film is about two childhood friends who get recruited for a suicide bombing mission in Tel Aviv.
And the film is directed by Palestinian director Hany Abu Assad.

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