
(海星, which later became the Shaw Brothers Pte Ltd) to distribute films made by Tianyi and other studios.
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The brothers therefore became interested in forming their own network, and Runme Shaw, who was then the distribution manager, traveled to Singapore to establish a movie distribution business for Southeast Asia. The Shown in Ī rival studio, Mingxing Film Company, formed a syndicate with 5 other Shanghai companies to monopolize the distribution and exhibition markets and to exclude Tianyi films from being shown on theatrical chains in Shanghai and Southeast Asia. of The Earliest Films apos Company, New Leaf (deeds) and Heroine Feifei of Li (Li Feifei Woman), of Shanghai were in 1925. Runje Shaw and his brothers Runde and Runme formed a film production company in 1924 in Shanghai called the Tianyi Film Company (also known as Unique). The Shaw brothers then bought their first camera, and Runje Shaw made this play into a silent film which turned out to be a success. One of the plays in their theater, The Man from Shensi, was very popular. Runje Shaw, the eldest of the Shaw who started the movie empireīefore their involvement in the film business, the Shaw brothers were interested in opera and owned a theater in Shanghai, and their father also owned a cinema. In 2011 Shaw Brothers was reorganized into Clear Water Bay Land Company Limited, its film production business that is taken over by other companies within the Shaw conglomerate. Film production resumed in limited capacity in 2009. In 1987, the company discontinued film production in order to focus on the television industry through its subsidiary TVB. He also popularized the kung-fu genre of movies. Over the years, the film company produced about 1,000 films, some of which were the most popular and significant of the time. In the 1960s, Shaw Brothers established what was once the largest privately owned studio in the world, Movietown. Runme and Run Run took over the film production business from their sister company Shaw & Sons Ltd., in Hong Kong, and in 1958 a new company, Shaw Brothers, was created. In 1925, the three Shaw brothers - Runje, Runme, and Runde - founded Tianyi Film Company (also called Unique) in Shanghai, and established a base of film distribution in Singapore, where Runme and younger brother Run Run Shaw managed the predecessor to the main company, Shaw Organization. (in Chinese, 邵氏 兄弟 (香港) 公司 ) was the largest film production company in Hong Kong.
