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Author Topic: Shaw Brothers Film Festival Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-06-2013 07:03 PM                        In the 24 years I have been in the business, I've always wanted to do a Shaw Brothers Film Festival. I received permission from Celestial back when I was in Vegas, but the chain I worked for didn't allow me to run it (it may have been logistical, print handling stuff, I really don't remember). Anyways, now that we live in a digital world and SOME of their titles are available on Blu-Ray, I was thinking about contacting Celestial again and attempting to book of few of the classic "Martial Arts" titles that they have: "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin" "The 5 Deadly Venoms" "Chinese Super Ninjas" or "Five Element Ninjas" are three titles that come to mind. Anyone else have any ideas on titles? I can get the audience in the doors for the films, I was just trying to think of other titles. I don't believe that these titles are available in D.C.P. form (of course I could make them, but Blu-Ray would be fine). Anyways - what do you think?  |  IP: Logged Brent Francis Film Handler Posts: 84 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Nov 2008 posted 03-07-2013 04:20 PM                        The Oily Maniac (1976). Crippled hero turns into an Grease Monster to fight the baddies. Highly underrated - reminded me of the Toxic Avenger.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-07-2013 06:33 PM                        The Shaw Brothers motion picture company used to have a theatre in Honolulu when thy leased the former International Theatre which used to be the first run venue for Daiei motion pictures from Japan. The theatre was a beautiful house and had seating for about 800. When the SHaw brothers took over the theatre, they mounted a huge logo which resembled Warner Brothers on the front facade of the building and it looked very impressive. Golden Harvest, another Hong move studio also had a first run venue here. Chinese martial arts pictures as well as other kinds of pictures were very popular here with our large Asian population. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Timothy Eiler Expert Film Handler Posts: 126 From: Litchfield , Minnesota, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-11-2013 03:50 PM                        I ran lot of their films in the late 70's to early 80's. The only think i remember was that it seemed like most of the were in SHAWSCOPE  |  IP: Logged

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