Shaw Organisation

Shaw Organisation is a film distribution company and movie theater chain founded by Runme Shaw and his younger brother Run Run Shaw in the 1920s in Singapore, originally as a distributor for the Shaw brothers' Tianyi Film Company (also called Unique) in Shanghai. Run Run Shaw later moved to Hong Kong in the 1950s to run Shaw Brothers Studio.

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 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 Theatres has 7 cinemas in Singapore with new multiplexes in Sengkang and Punggol by 2014 and 2015 respectively. Century Square is privately owned.