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Black Panther to Be First Movie to Screen in Saudi Arabia’s Cinemas

Cast member Chadwick Boseman poses at the premiere of 'Black Panther' in Los Angeles, California, US, January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files
Cast member Chadwick Boseman poses at the premiere of 'Black Panther' in Los Angeles, California, US, January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files
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Black Panther to Be First Movie to Screen in Saudi Arabia’s Cinemas

Cast member Chadwick Boseman poses at the premiere of 'Black Panther' in Los Angeles, California, US, January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files
Cast member Chadwick Boseman poses at the premiere of 'Black Panther' in Los Angeles, California, US, January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has completed his plans by visiting Los Angeles and holding meetings to accelerate changes. His visit to the global cinema stronghold wasn’t for the sake of knowledge but to implement required changes and put them on the right track

To serve a population of more than 32 million, Saudi Arabia wants to set up around 350 cinemas in the coming years. Every cinema will contain eight to ten screens (maybe more).

AMC Theaters is not the biggest cinema institution but the oldest, founded in 1920, ahead of Regal Entertainment Group and Cinemark Theaters. The Company didn’t cease growing, especially in the past two years. In 2016, it acquired similar firms such as Odeon, UCI and Carmike, adding 2,200 screens in 244 cinemas in Europe alone, in addition to 8,200 screens in 661 cinemas in the United States.

Black Panther will be the first movie shown in a Saudi Arabian movie theater on April 18.

This movie is considered among the most successful movies of the year – its most recent box revenues surpassed billion American dollars. It is a US comics figure, which was founded by Marvel in 1966, which was the premier appearance of the African hero of superpowers.

Unlike other super heroes, Black Panther has other features such as intelligence, fighting skills, capabilities to endure gravity and control time. The message of the movie wouldn’t be complete without mentioning that he doesn’t fight alone but has a female assistant.

The kingdom’s decision to open cinemas and allow the showing of movies has been described as the event of the year 2017.

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China Says its Astronauts Complete Record-breaking Spacewalk

File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
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China Says its Astronauts Complete Record-breaking Spacewalk

File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS

Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China's Manned Space Agency, marking another milestone for Beijing's rapidly expanding space program.

The spacewalk, carried out by Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong outside the Tiangong space station in low-Earth orbit on Tuesday, was at least four minutes longer than the last record set by NASA astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms in 2001, according to Reuters.

The two astronauts of China's Shenzhou-19 mission donned their Feitian spacesuits to carry out an array of tasks on the station's exterior, including the installation of space-debris protection devices, China's space agency said.

"They successfully completed all the planned tasks and felt very excited about it," Wu Hao, a staffer from the China Astronaut Research and Training Center, told China Central Television, a state broadcaster.

The former Soviet Union in 1965 became the first nation to carry out a spacewalk. Since then, Russia and the United States have conducted hundreds of such missions, primarily outside the International Space Station for tasks ranging from solar panel installations to materials research.

The first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut occurred in 2008.

China's spacewalking milestone this week comes amid a flurry of other recent cosmic achievements that have boosted Beijing's competitive footing with the United States.

China landed its first rover on Mars in 2021 and earlier this year became the first country to retrieve rock samples from the moon's treacherous far side in its Chang'e-6 mission.

Beijing is targeting 2030 to land its first astronauts on the moon to become the second country after the US to put humans there. Beijing has courted roughly a dozen countries for its International Lunar Research Station program, an effort to build a moon base on the moon's south pole.

That program rivals NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return US astronauts to the moon for the first time since the final Apollo mission of 1972.