MBC Studios, a privately owned company headquartered in Saudi Arabia, is a subsidiary of MBC Group. Founded in 2018, the company has approximately 120 employees and reported $169.5M in revenue as of 2025, specializing in entertainment content rights. It functions as the content development arm of MBC Group. Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with established production bases spanning multiple countries, the studio focuses on the development of Arabic cinematic and serialised intellectual property (IP). It adapts Middle Eastern historical, cultural, and contemporary narratives into internationally scalable media formats. Its intellectual property library includes cinematic features and streaming titles such as the fantasy epic HWJN, the action film Desert Warrior, and a pipeline of local-language drama series commissioned for its parent group’s OTT video-on-demand platform, Shahid.
On August 27, 2026, MBC Group unveiled its first video game, "1001 Threads of Mizan," at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, marking the debut of MBC Game Studio as the media group expanded into the global gaming industry. This development saw MBC Studios launch MBC Game Studio, a nascent subsidiary that spent the past three years working on "1001 Threads of Mizan," an action-adventure title set within the world of One Thousand and One Nights. Previously, on August 26, MBC Group formally presented the debut title from MBC Game Studio during the Gamescom event, which described the game as an Arabian fantasy action-adventure featuring a handcrafted world combining exploration, large-scale combat, and cooperative gameplay.
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MBC Studios's revenues were less than $250M in 2025. All the revenue comes from entertainment rights and distribution.
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