New York TimesLONDON — In the latest in a series of gestures toward modernization that would once have seemed improbable, Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that it would allow commercial movie theaters to open for the first time in more than 35 years. The moves to allow access by early 2018, part of a broad campaign by the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, to transform Saudi society, followed measures that would give women the right to drive and to attend soccer games, and that would allow concerts and other forms of public entertainment. Although satellite television and video downloads have made the ban on commercial theaters all but irrelevant, , the announcement highlights the diminishing power of the kingdom’s conservative clerics.Read more on NewsOK.com