Cinema of Hong Kong
| Cinema of Hong Kong | |
|---|---|
| No. of screens | 282 (2024) |
| • Per capita | 3.1 per 100,000 (2011) |
| Produced feature films (2005–2009) | |
| Total | 56 (average) |
| Number of admissions (2010) | |
| Total | 22,500,000 |
| • Per capita | 3.2 (2010) |
| Gross box office (2021) | |
| Total | HK$1.2 billion |
| Demographics and culture of Hong Kong |
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The cinema of Hong Kong 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 artistic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including its worldwide diaspora).
Hong Kong became the leading film exporter in East Asia in the 1960s, with its film output surpassing Hollywood, and remained the second-largest exporter (after Hollywood) from the 1970s through the 1990s. It also had the third-largest film industry in the world during the 1980s and 1990s, behind Hollywood and Bollywood. 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.