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Cinema of Hong Kong
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| Cinema of Hong Kong | |
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| No. of screens | 282 (2024)[1] |
| • Per capita | 3.1 per 100,000 (2011)[2] |
| Produced feature films (2005–2009)[3] | |
| Total | 56 (average) |
| Number of admissions (2010)[5] | |
| Total | 22,500,000 |
| • Per capita | 3.2 (2010)[4] |
| Gross box office (2021)[6] | |
| Total | HK$1.2 billion |
| Demographics and culture of Hong Kong |
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| Demographics |
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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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- ^ "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure – Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "Average national film production". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "Cinema – Admissions per capita". Screen Australia. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
- ^ "Table 11: Exhibition – Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "The overall situation of the Hong Kong film market in 2021" (PDF). Hong Kong Box Office Limited (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 6 January 2022.
- ^ "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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