State Theatre in Hong Kong: Inside the Fight to Save the Last Movie Palace – Hollywood Reporter

State Theatre in Hong Kong: Inside the Fight to Save the Last Movie Palace

As this year’s 40th anniversary of the Hong Kong International Film Festival attests, Hong Kong has one of Asia’s richest histories of moviegoing. But even though the Hong Kong film industry’s production prowess lives on — local director Stephen Chow’s latest comedy The Mermaid recently grossed a record-smashing $500 million in mainland China — most of the city’s monuments to its cinematic heritage have been erased.

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