That area was known as the Mandarin circuit. All of them actually booked also for an extra five hundred movie theatres. Among them were the ones in Chinatown in CA, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. The Shaw Company had embraced big studios all over the Southwest Asia, with some interests in real property, banking, insurance, breweries and amusement parks. It turns out that their only serious film-making rival was Cathay organization and the actual theme was Singapore. The organization looked ready to give them some big amounts of money to start until there was a plane crush over Taiwan and the crush took the lives of several of Cathay’s top executives and officers.
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Summary:
The company Shaw Brothers films were guaranteed a very good distribution of the movies because the company also had one hundred and forty other movie theatres all over Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and some parts of Vietnam and Burma.