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Cinema of Hong Kong

Cinema of Hong Kong
A bronze statue on a pedestal, with the city skyline in the background. The pedestal is designed in the image of four clapperboards forming a box. The statue is of a woman wrapped in photographic film, looking straight up, with her left hand stretched upwards and holding a glass sphere containing a light.
Replica of the Hong Kong Film Awards statuette on the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
No. of screens282 (2024)[1]
 • Per capita3.1 per 100,000 (2011)[2]
Produced feature films (2005–2009)[3]
Total56 (average)
Number of admissions (2010)[5]
Total22,500,000
 • Per capita3.2 (2010)[4]
Gross box office (2014)[6]
TotalHK$1.65 billion
Demographics and culture of Hong Kong
Demographics
Culture
Other Hong Kong topics

The cinema of Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former Crown colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including its worldwide diaspora).

For decades,[when?] Hong Kong was the third largest motion picture industry in the world following US cinema and Indian cinema, and the second largest exporter.[specify] Despite an industry crisis starting in the mid-1990s and Hong Kong's transfer to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997, Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage. In the West, Hong Kong's vigorous pop cinema (especially Hong Kong action cinema) has long had a strong cult following, which is now a part of the cultural mainstream, widely available and imitated.

Economically, the film industry together with the value added of cultural and creative industries represents 5 per cent of Hong Kong's economy.[7]

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  2. ^ "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure – Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Average national film production". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Cinema – Admissions per capita". Screen Australia. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Table 11: Exhibition – Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  6. ^ Kevin Ma (6 January 2015). "Transformers, Chickensss rule 2014 HK b.o." Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Robust film industry is in our best interest". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.

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