Editing Run Run Shaw (section)

===Shaw Brothers Studios===

In 1957, Run Run Shaw moved to Hong Kong, which was emerging as the new centre of Chinese-language cinema, and reorganised Tianyi's operations there as Shaw Brothers Studio. Shaw copied [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] by setting up a permanent production site where his actors worked and lived on 46 acres purchased from the government in [[Clearwater Bay]]. At the opening of the Shaw Movietown in December 1961, Shaw Studios had the world's largest privately owned film-production outfit with about 1,200 workers shooting and editing films daily.<ref name="Bloomberg"/> Shaw productions ran up to two hours and cost as much as $50,000, a lavish sum by Asian standards in the 1960s.<ref name="NYT"/>

By the 1960s, Shaw Brothers had become the biggest producer of movies in Asia. Notable films produced by Shaw include director [[Li Han-hsiang]]'s ''[[The Magnificent Concubine]]'', which took the [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix]] at the [[1962 Cannes Film Festival]]; the 1963 blockbuster musical film ''[[The Love Eterne]]'', also directed by Li Han-hsiang; [[King Hu]]'s 1966 pioneering [[wuxia]] film ''[[Come Drink with Me]]''; and [[Chang Cheh]]'s 1967 ''[[The One-Armed Swordsman]]'', which broke box office records.<ref>{{cite news |date=7 January 2014 |title=Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong film pioneer, dies |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-25618414 |access-date=2025-03-15 |work=[[BBC News]] |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> His companies in Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong made more than 1,000 movies, with annual production peaking at 50 pictures in 1974 when Shaw was described as the "Czar of Asian Movies".<ref>{{cite news |last=Deutsch |first=Linda |author-link=Linda Deutsch |date=1 May 1974 |title=Run Run Shaw, Czar of Asian Movies |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19740501&id=OgtHAAAAIBAJ&pg=2559,61412 |access-date=17 January 2014 |newspaper=[[Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)|Lewiston Evening Journal]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> The popular nostalgic costume dramas of Shaw Brothers celebrated traditional Chinese values and culture, which was in contrast to the then anti-traditional ideology of [[Communist]] mainland China (particularly during the [[Cultural Revolution]]), but fit with the policy of the Nationalist government of Taiwan and US anti-Communist strategy, while not conflicting with the less provocative approach of the colonial government of Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite book|page=126|title=The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8F1pAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126|first1=Carlos|last1=Rojas|first2=Eileen|last2=Chow|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780199988440 }}</ref> Shaw Studios also popularised an early ([[Wuxia]]) variant of [[Martial arts film|kung fu film genre]] that had influence on directors such as [[John Woo]] and [[Quentin Tarantino]].<ref name="abc news"/><ref name="WSJ">{{cite news |last1=Ng |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Ho |first2=Prudence |date=6 January 2014 |title=Hong Kong Media Mogul Dies |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304887104579305330145355604 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-03-15 |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref>

The studio, which held virtual monopoly of filmmaking in Hong Kong, declined in the 1970s, partly due to competition from [[Orange Sky Golden Harvest|Golden Harvest]] formed by [[Raymond Chow]] and employing many former ex-employees of Shaw that have been dismissed. Golden Harvest came to prominence through [[Bruce Lee]] whom Shaw Brothers had previously turned down. Shaw began to focus his efforts on television.<ref name="Birth date">{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Mark |date=23 November 2007 |title=Film Mogul Run Run Shaw Turns 100, Considers Retiring |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a4zRNwIcwwbQ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107044646/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a4zRNwIcwwbQ |archive-date=7 January 2014 |work=[[Bloomberg News]]}}</ref> Shaw also looked for opportunities in the United States and co-produced a handful of US films, including the 1982 sci-fi classic ''[[Blade Runner]]''.<ref name="abc news"/> In 2000, through his company, Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited, he sold his library of 760 classic titles to [[Celestial Pictures]] Limited. Shaw Studios also entered a new era with Shaw's majority investment (through his various holding companies) in the US$180,000,000 Hong Kong Movie City project, a {{convert|1100000|sqft|m2}} studio and production facility in [[Tseung Kwan O]].<ref name="studio">{{cite web|url=http://www.shawstudios.hk/who_we_are.htm|title=Who We are – Shaw Studios|access-date=16 October 2007|work=Shaw Studios|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520093756/http://www.shawstudios.hk/who_we_are.htm|archive-date=20 May 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>