Global InformationShaw Brothers Studio information
 | This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: According to the article, the company stopped operation since 2011, but in fact as of 2022 it is still active in producing TV series. (December 2022) |
 The Shaw Brothers logo, modeled after the Warner Bros. logo | |
Native name | 邵氏兄弟控股有限公司 |
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| Formerly | Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. (1958–2011) |
| Company type | Public company |
Traded as | SEHK: 953 |
| Industry | Film production Television production |
| Founded | 27 December 1958 |
| Defunct | 28 November 2011 |
| Fate | Merged with Shaw Brothers to form a new Clear Water Bay Land Company Limited |
| Successor | Clear Water Bay Land Company Limited |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong (main; English-speaking) Macau (main; Portuguese-speaking) |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Films Television shows |
| Subsidiaries | Shaw Brothers International Pictures |
| Website | shawbrotherspictures |
homepage, website.| Shaw Brothers Studio | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Shaw Studios, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 邵氏片場 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited (Chinese: 邵氏兄弟(香港)公司) was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, operating from 1925 to 2011.
In 1925, three Shaw brothers—Runje, Runme, and Runde—founded Tianyi Film Company (also called "Unique") in Shanghai, and established a film distribution base in Singapore, where Runme and their youngest brother, Run Run Shaw, managed the precursor to the parent company, Shaw Organisation. Runme and Run Run took over the film production business of its Hong Kong-based sister company, Shaw & Sons Ltd; in 1958, a new company, "Shaw Brothers," was set up. In the 1960s, Shaw Brothers established what was once the largest privately-owned studio in the world, Movietown.
The company's most famous works include The Love Eterne (1963), Come Drink with Me (1966), The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), King Boxer (1972), Executioners from Shaolin (1977), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and Five Deadly Venoms (both 1978).
Over the years, the film company produced around 1,000 films, some becoming the most popular and significant Chinese-language films of the period. It also popularized the kung fu genre of films. In 1987, the company suspended film production in order to concentrate on the television industry through its subsidiary, TVB. Film production resumed in limited capacity in 2009.
In 2011, Shaw Brothers was reorganized into the Clear Water Bay Land Company Limited; its film production business was taken over by other companies within the Shaw conglomerate. However, the company continues to remain active in producing TV shows under the Shaw Brothers name to this day as of 2022.