 On 11 December 2017, as part of the Saudi Vision 2030 initiative, the Saudi Arabian Minister of Culture and Information announced that public movie theaters would be allowed by 2018.The government hopes that by 2030, Saudi Arabia will already have more than 300 theaters with over 2,000 movie screens.The first public film screening was "Black Panther" beginning on 18 April 2018 for five days in a 620-seat cinema owned by AMC Theatres in Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District which was originally intended to be a symphony hall. ""