To be honest although many have argued that the quality of Egyptian cinema is deteriorating, it appears that the public always know whose movies are worth watching and those movies come up on top. In this season of movies Ahmed El Saka’s movie ‘El Gezeera’ (The Island) has taken first place with ticket sales worth a whopping 222,740,00 E.P in Egypt alone after 13 weeks of being in cinemas. Not too far behind was Kareem Abdel Aziz’s ‘Khareg An El Kanoon’ (Outlaw) which made 191,170,00 E.P. Controversy is a movie maker’s best friend they say and ‘Heena Maysara’ which takes third place in the Egyptian Box office saw a lot of controversy regarding the presence of homosexual scenes, the movie made 169,030,00 E.P.

‘Heya Fawda’ ,a slightly more political movie, and ‘Tabakh El Rayes’ came in fourth and fifth place respectively. Nicole Saba’s movie made 342,700,0 E.P in only eight weeks putting it in sixth place followed by ‘Klashenkov’ starring Ghada Adel. ‘Share’ 18’ which starred the relatively new faces of Mays Hamdan and Donya Sameer Ghanem still managed to sit in eighth place. Ola Ghanem’s movie ‘Lahathat Onotha’ made 660,000 E.P after only three weeks. The real shocker to me was Noor’s movie ‘Noktat Rogoo’ which is in 10th place and has made only 600,000 E.P even though movies she usually stars in do much better.

As for the last two places, well they go to prove that looking good doesn’t mean you can act. The movie in the eleventh place stars was Razan’s ‘Hassan Tayara’ as for last place it goes to another newbie to the acting world Rola Saad. Her movie ‘Ghorfa 707’ made a petty 390,000 E.P in four weeks. Well the competition is hot and with some movies being in there longer than others there is still room for change.

By Karim