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.

• Golden Globes 2006 Winners

A new Egyptian movie will be hitting the big screen soon. It will be starring Lebanese singer Nicole Saba and Egyptian singer/actor Mohammad Mounir.
The movie is produced by Mamdouh Shaheen and directed by Khaled Yousef, and is entitled 'Raq El Habib'.
The total cost of this movie is around 5 million Egyptian pounds, and contains a few single songs for both Nicole and Mounir, and will also have a duo for the two.

Who doesn’t love the Smurfs 'AL Sanafer'? Those cute, little, blue creatures that dwell the forests?
Nearly most of us from around the world have sat in front of the TV as kids and watched this cartoon.
Well, at last there will be a 3-D Smurfs movie hitting the screens. But not any time near! You will have to wait until 2008 to see this blue movie.
This extravaganza from Nickelodeon will be the first of a Trilogy.
There will also be a huge Transformers movie hitting the screens in 2007.

Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are teaming up again for a sequel of “The Mask of Zorro”. The movie is called “The Legend of Zorro” and is going to be as enticing as the first one! It will hit the cinema screens on the 28th of October 2005.

You can look forward to this summer's movies, because they are GREAT!

Two of the upcoming movies are "Batman Begins", where a young Bruce Wayne takes up the mission of protecting Gotham from Ra's Al Ghul and the Scarecrow, & "War of the Worlds", a Steven Spielberg movie, which is a modern-day telling of H.G. Wells' classic of a man in the middle of an alien invasion.
"Batman Begins" stars a bunch of famous actors such as Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Micheal Caine and Gary Oldman.

I was browsing the net to see what new movies are out and are worth seeing, and I came across a very interesting movie by the director of the great movie “the Gladiator”, it is called “Kingdom of Heaven”.

It is an epic, about a man who finds himself in a strange land facing a war, then becomes king and falls in love with the wrong woman. He then has an obligation to protect Jerusalem from wicked forces while keeping peace.
I was so surprised to find that the movie includes the character of Salah Eddine (Saladin), but that is not what really surprised me; it is the actor who plays the character of Salah Eddine, Syrian Actor Ghassan Massoud!

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The Wedding Date is a romantic comedy starring Debra Messing & Dermot Mulroney, it will have you definitely smiling by the end of it. The Wedding Date is THE movie to see in February.

Have you seen "Spider Man 2" yet?
Are you wondering weather or not it's gonna be better than the first one?
Well, I'm not gonna spoil it for you, but what I was expecting was a more violent and storyless movie which characterizes most sequels. Fortunately, I was wrong.
I was happy to find a lot of story in this part in addition to high-tech special effects...

Mel Gibson says: "I want to show the humanity of Christ as well as the divine aspect. It's a rendering that for me is very realistic and as close as possible to what I perceive the truth to be."

The Passion of The Christ" is a vivid depiction of the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ's life with James Caviezel and Monica Bellucci...