The Decline of Hong Kongs Movie Industry

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The Decline of Hong Kongs Movie Industry
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• Movie production
• 300 movies a year in the 1980s
• 64 movies in 2004
• Movie Revenues
• HK700 million in 1997
• HK380 million in 2004
• What causes the decline?

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• Illegal downloading via the internet
• During March 31 April 26, 2005, the number of
  downloads

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Losses due to downloading

• House of Fury
• Hong Kong
• 3,724 x HK50 HK186,200
• Worldwide
• 1 million x HK50 HK50 million

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• Estimate 400 million lost in 2004
• Hong Kong Box Office 445 million in 2004

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Other causes

• Pirated VCD and DVD
• Competition from foreign movies?
• Decline in the quality of Hong Kong movies?
• Competition from other entertainments?
• Ticket price too high?

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How to save the movie industry?

• Legal means
• Laws against illegal downloading
• Heavier penalty against piracy
• Enforcement
• Education
• Respect intellectual property rights
• Understand more about why people download

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Hypocritical Artists

• Vincent Kok Tak Chiu (???)
• Director, Actor, Scriptwriter
• Graduate of Simon Fraser University
• Appeared in news conferences telling the public
  to boycott pirated materials and lobbying the
  government to help the movie industry
• However, he was caught by paparazzi buying
  pirated DVD videos in Wan Chai on Nov 19, 2006.
• Although embarrassed, Kok defended that he was
  writing a script on piracy and he needed to know
  first-hand about the piracy world.