MBC Studios

MBC Studios, a privately owned company and a content development arm of MBC Group, is headquartered in Saudi Arabia. Launched in 2018, the studio operates with approximately 120 employees and reported $169.5M in revenue as of 2025, specializing in entertainment content rights. The company functions as a global production studio for its parent, MBC Group, a media and broadcasting conglomerate in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. With established production bases across multiple countries, MBC Studios focuses on the structural expansion of Arabic cinematic and serialized intellectual property (IP). Leveraging institutional backing, 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 and the international action film Desert Warrior. The studio also maintains a pipeline of local-language drama series commissioned for Shahid, its parent group’s over-the-top (OTT) video-on-demand platform.