Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited

Shaw Brothers - History The seeds of this legendary Chinese film empire were sown in Shanghai in the 1920s by six enterprising brothers. Taking root in then British Hong Kong in 1958 with the construction of the largest privately-owned film studio in the world at the time, the Shaw Brothers produced one thousand films - mostly Chinese cinema classics - over the next three decades, amassing the largest Chinese film library ever. Shaw Brothers later acquired and developed cinemas throughout Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, North America, Hawaii and Canada, establishing itself as by far the most dominant film production, distribution and exhibition group in the entire region. In the 1970s, the size of the theatre group exceeded 200 screens (with 600 more listed as having distribution deals), boasting several grand 1000-seat plus flagship houses in Hong Kong. In 1973, Sir Run Run launched TVB, Hong Kongs first wireless commercial television station. By the 80s, Hong Kong...