“Over the last 18 months Saudi Arabia has hosted three pics with Hollywood ties: Gerard Butler action-thriller “Kandahar,” directed by Ric Roman Waugh, which was filmed in AlUla, a sprawling area of desert and giant boulders that boasts an ancient city; British director Rupert Wyatt’s historical tentpole “Desert Warrior,” toplined by “Captain America” star Anthony Mackie, which was shot in NEOM, a futuristic city being built in the Tabuk province of northwestern Saudi Arabia; and a small segment of the Russo Brothers’ crime drama “Cherry” which shot in AlUla and the Saudi of capital Riyadh. These films all tapped into the Saudi rebate even before it was fine-tuned and made official, which it now is.”

[Variety]