- Shaw Organisation
The Shaw Organisation is a film distribution company and
movie theater chain founded byRunme Shaw andRun Run Shaw in 1924 inSingapore .Movie theatres
The company managed single-screen cinemas until the late 1980s, when it decided to build
cineplex es to give more flexibility in offering different types of films. The first cineplexes built were the Prince and Jade cineplexes in Shaw Towers, opened in February 1988. Soon after, the management undertook their biggest single project to date, the 22-storey Shaw House complex.By August 2000, a computerised ticketing system developed jointly with Singapore Technologies was launched. This system linked all Shaw theatres into a single network for automated telephone credit card purchases.
At its height, the company owned movie theaters and amusement parks throughout Singapore,
Malaysia andBorneo , and spawned theShaw Brothers Studio inHong Kong to feed its then-burgeoning operation.Today, it manages and runs 39 screens in 7 locations in
Singapore , namely Orchard (Lido), Balestier, Century Square, Choa Chu Kang, Bugis, Jurong East, and Beach Road.ee also
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List of cinemas in Singapore External links
* [http://www.shaw.sg/ Shaw Online]
* http://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117466324.html?categoryid=38&cs=1
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