Saudi Arabia has announced it will lift a ban on commercial cinemas that has lasted more than three decades.
The Ministry of Culture and Information said it would begin issuing licences immediately and that the first cinemas were expected to open in March 2018.
The measure is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 social and economic reform programme.
In September, King Salman announced that women would be permitted to drive in Saudi Arabia for the first time from June 2018 - another move opposed by clerics.
The conservative Muslim kingdom had cinemas in the 1970s, but clerics persuaded the authorities to close them.
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