Shaw Organisation

This article is about the Singapore film distributor and movie-theatre chain. For the Hong Kong movie studio, see Shaw Brothers Studio.

The Shaw Organisation is a film distribution company and movie theater chain founded by Runme Shaw and Run Run Shaw in 1924 in Singapore.

Movie theatres

The company managed single-screen cinemas until the late 1980s, when it decided to build cineplexes 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.

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 and Borneo, and spawned the Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong to feed its then-burgeoning operation.

Today, it manages and runs 47 screens in 7 locations in Singapore

Locations

Shaw Cineplex currently has 7 cinemas at Singapore. The cinemas are listed below.

Cinema	Screens/Halls	Seats	Location	Opening Year	Digital Hall	IMAX	3D Digital Hall	Shaw Premiere
Lido	11	1960	Orchard	1962/1993/2011	N	Y	Y	N
Bugis Junction	3	1084	Bugis	2001	Y	N	Y	N
Lot 1 Shoppers' Mall	4	1026	Choa Chu Kang	1996	N	N	Y	N
Century Square	6	830	Tampines	1995	Y	N	Y	N
Nex	10	1300	Serangoon	2010	Y	N	Y	Y
Balestier	6	1200	Balestier	1999	N	N	Y	N
JCube	7	967	Jurong East	2012	Y	Y	Y	N
Waterway Point	10	??	Punggol	2015	Y	Y	Y	N

Defunct Location

Cinema	Screens/Halls	Seats	Location	Opening Year	Closed Year
Changi	3	1154	Bedok	1980	2000
Chinatown Point	2	684	Chinatown	1991	1999
Great World	4		River Valley	1936	1992
Hoover	1		Balestier	1950s	1996
Shaw Tower [Closed]	4	1200	Beach Road	2001	2009
Vision	4	1200	Hougang	1993	2000
Woodlands	2	619	Marsiling	1980	1999

See also

• List of cinemas in Singapore

External links

• Shaw Online
• http://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117466324.html?categoryid=38&cs=1