Shaw Brothers

Shaw Brothers, also known as Shaw Brothers Pictures, is a publicly owned company headquartered in Hong Kong. Founded in 2005, with approximately 40 employees, the company reported $7.2M in revenue as of 2024. Its main product is content rights. The company operates as a mass media entertainment corporation and film studio, also functioning as a multimedia production house and talent agency. Originally established in 1958 by Sir Run Run Shaw and Tan Sri Runme Shaw as Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited, the studio pioneered the kung fu and wuxia genres. Following a corporate restructuring backed by China Media Capital (CMC) and Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), the enterprise maintains an extensive intellectual property portfolio that includes historic genre-defining assets, with its classic library licensed via Celestial Pictures, alongside modern blockbuster franchises and episodic streaming co-productions. Its contemporary and historical intellectual property assets include the Line Walker cinematic franchise (Line Walker and Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy), the Flying Tiger high-budget television franchise, The Impossible 3, From Vegas to Macau II and III (co-produced), Turning Point 2, and classical cinema titles such as The One-Armed Swordsman, Come Drink with Me, and King Boxer (Five Fingers of Death).